Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 103 min
- 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
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
- small town
- new jersey
- gas station
- boxer
- heist
- femme fatale
- film noir
- murder
- black and white
- attempted robbery
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Edmond O'Brien
Jim Reardon
Burt Lancaster
'Swede' Andersen
Ava Gardner
Kitty Collins
Albert Dekker
Big Jim Colfax
- Sam Levene — Lt. Sam Lubinsky
- Vince Barnett — Charleston
- Virginia Christine — Lilly Harmon Lubinsky
- Jack Lambert — 'Dum-Dum' Clarke
- Charles D. Brown — Packy Robinson - Ole's Manager
- Donald MacBride — R.S. Kenyon
- Charles McGraw — Al
- William Conrad — Max
- Jeff Corey — Blinky Franklin (uncredited)
- Gino Corrado — Restaurant Chef (uncredited)
- Frank McLure — Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
- Directed
- Robert Siodmak
- Written
- Richard Brooks, Anthony Veiller, John Huston
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 441 ratings
- Studio
- Universal International 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.
