Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
In the midst of the Great Depression, manipulative emcee Rocky enlists contestants for a dance marathon offering a $1,500 cash prize. Among them are a failed actress, a middle-aged sailor, a delusional blonde and a pregnant girl.
- dancing
- based on novel or book
- dance competition
- boardwalk
- marathon
- pregnant woman
- endurance
- depression era
- prize money
- dance contest
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jane Fonda
Gloria Beatty
Michael Sarrazin
Robert Syverton
Susannah York
Alice LeBlanc
Gig Young
Rocky Gravo
- Red Buttons — Sailor
- Bonnie Bedelia — Ruby Bates
- Michael Conrad — Rollo
- Bruce Dern — James Bates
- Al Lewis — Turkey
- Robert Fields — Joel
- Severn Darden — Cecil
- Allyn Ann McLerie — Shirl
- Madge Kennedy — Mrs. Laydon
- Jacquelyn Hyde — Jackie
- Felice Orlandi — Mario
- Directed
- Sydney Pollack
- Written
- James Poe, Robert E. Thompson
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 373 ratings
- Studio
- Palomar Pictures International, ABC Pictures, Palomar Pictures, ABC, Winkler Films
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.
