Drama Crime
When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits.
Directed by
Otto Preminger
Eleanor Parker
Zosch Machine
Darren McGavin
Louie
George Mathews
Williams
Frank Sinatra
Frankie Machine
Kim Novak
Molly
Jack Mulhall
Frank Richards
Paul E. Burns
Gordon Mitchell
Emile Meyer
Detective Bednar
Jeffrey Sayre
Club Safari Patron (uncredited)
Will Wright
Frank Mills
Street Vagrant (uncredited)
John Conte
Drunky
Leonid Kinskey
Dominiwski
Mike Lally
Arnold Stang
Sparrow
George E. Stone
Sam Markette
Martha Wentworth
Harry 'Snub' Pollard
Street Vagrant (uncredited)
Frank Marlowe
Robert Strauss
Schwiefka
Leonard Bremen
Suzanne Ridgway
Shelly Manne
Drummer
Jered Barclay
Martha Crawford
Doro Merande
Vi
Herschel Graham
Club Safari Patron (uncredited)
Pete Candoli
Harold 'Tommy' Hart
Joe McTurk
Ralph Neff
Norman Papson
Ernest Raboff
Charles Seel

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