Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 80 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified information to the communists, Candy, who has been trailed by FBI agents for months in hopes of nabbing the spy ringleader, is sent by her ex-boyfriend, Joey, to find Skip and retrieve the valuable microfilm he now holds.
- pickpocket
- cold war
- film noir
- black and white
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Richard Kiley — Joey
- Willis Bouchey — Zara
- Milburn Stone — Detective Winoki
- Parley Baer — Headquarters Communist in Chair (uncredited)
- Chet Brandenburg — Fight Spectator (uncredited)
- Frank Kumagai — Lum (uncredited)
- Virginia Carroll — Nurse (uncredited)
- Harry Carter — Detective Dietrich (uncredited)
- Clancy Cooper — Detective Eddie (uncredited)
- Henry Slate — Detective MacGregor (uncredited)
- Heinie Conklin — Subway Passenger (uncredited)
- Directed
- Samuel Fuller
- Written
- Dwight Taylor, Samuel Fuller
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 325 ratings
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
