Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 89 min
- Age rating
- 15
- 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.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
After the suspicious suicide of a fellow cop, tough homicide detective Dave Bannion takes the law into his own hands when he sets out to smash a vicious crime syndicate.
- suicide
- police
- gangster
- homicide
- car bomb
- cop
- revenge
- film noir
- death
- wrecking yard
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Glenn Ford
Det. Sgt. Dave Bannion
Gloria Grahame
Debby Marsh
Jocelyn Brando
Katie Bannion
Alexander Scourby
Mike Lagana
- Lee Marvin — Vince Stone
- Jeanette Nolan — Bertha Duncan
- Peter Whitney — Tierney
- Willis Bouchey — Lt. Ted Wilks
- Robert Burton — Det. Gus Burke
- Adam Williams — Larry Gordon
- Howard Wendell — Police Commissioner Higgins
- Chris Alcaide — George Rose
- Michael Granger — Hugo
- Dorothy Green — Lucy Chapman
- Carolyn Jones — Doris
- Directed
- Fritz Lang
- Written
- Sydney Boehm
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 559 ratings
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures
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.
