Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
- prison
- undercover agent
- parent child relationship
- gangster
- psychopath
- mama's boy
- heist
- film noir
- on the run
- shootout
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
James Cagney
Arthur 'Cody' Jarrett
Virginia Mayo
Verna Jarrett
Edmond O'Brien
Vic Pardo
Margaret Wycherly
Ma Jarrett
- Steve Cochran — 'Big Ed' Somers
- John Archer — Philip Evans
- Wally Cassell — 'Cotton' Valletti
- Fred Clark — Daniel Winston
- Paul Guilfoyle — Roy Parker (uncredited)
- Ford Rainey — Zuckie
- Robert Foulk — Payroll Guard at Chemical Plant
- Ian MacDonald — Creel
- Robert Osterloh — Ryley
- Joel Allen — Operative (uncredited)
- Claudia Barrett — Cashier (uncredited)
- Directed
- Raoul Walsh
- Written
- Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts, Virginia Kellogg
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 547 ratings
- Studio
- Warner Bros. 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.
