Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 71 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
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster's widow on a train journey from Chicago to Los Angeles.
- hitman
- widow
- telegram
- overweight man
- police protection
- blonde
- little boy
- film noir
- murder
- undercover cop
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Charles McGraw
Det. Sgt. Walter Brown
Marie Windsor
Mrs. Frankie Neall
Jacqueline White
Ann Sinclair
Gordon Gebert
Tommy Sinclair
- Queenie Leonard — Mrs. Troll
- David Clarke — Joseph Kemp
- Peter Virgo — Densel
- Don Beddoe — Det. Sgt. Gus Forbes
- Paul Maxey — Sam Jennings
- Harry Harvey — Train Conductor
- Peter Brocco — Vincent Yost (uncredited)
- George Chandler — Accomplice Running Newsstand (uncredited)
- Franklyn Farnum — Train Passenger (uncredited)
- Don Haggerty — Det. Wilson (uncredited)
- Milton Kibbee — Tenant (uncredited)
- Directed
- Richard Fleischer
- Written
- Jack Leonard, Martin Goldsmith, Earl Felton
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 173 ratings
- Studio
- RKO Radio 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.
