Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 85 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- 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
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.
- sniper
- adultery
- robbery
- husband wife relationship
- corruption
- marriage crisis
- gangster
- ex-detainee
- horse race
- way of life
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Ted de Corsia — Randy Kennan
- Marie Windsor — Sherry Peatty
- Elisha Cook Jr. — George Peatty
- Joe Sawyer — Mike O'Reilly
- James Edwards — Track Parking Attendant
- Timothy Carey — Nikki Arcane
- Kola Kwariani — Maurice Oboukhoff
- Jay Adler — Leo the Loanshark
- Tito Vuolo — Joe Piano - motel manager
- Dorothy Adams — Mrs. Ruthie O'Reilly
- Herbert Ellis — 2nd American Airlines Clerk
- Directed
- Stanley Kubrick
- Written
- Jim Thompson, Stanley Kubrick
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 1,732 ratings
- Studio
- United Artists, Harris-Kubrick Productions
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.
