Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
- based on novel or book
- heist
- film noir
- on the run
- black and white
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Sterling Hayden
Dix Handley
Louis Calhern
Alonzo D. Emmerich
Jean Hagen
Doll Conovan
James Whitmore
Gus Minissi
- Sam Jaffe — Doc Erwin Riedenschneider
- John McIntire — Police Commissioner Hardy
- Marc Lawrence — Cobby
- Barry Kelley — Lieutenant Ditrich
- Anthony Caruso — Louis Ciavelli
- Teresa Celli — Maria Ciavelli
- Marilyn Monroe — Angela Phinlay
- William 'Wee Willie' Davis — Timmons
- Dorothy Tree — May Emmerich
- Brad Dexter — Bob Brannom
- John Maxwell — Dr. Swanson
- Directed
- John Huston
- Written
- Ben Maddow, John Huston
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 540 ratings
- Studio
- Loew's Incorporated
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.
