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
Darren McGavin
Louie
Kim Novak
Molly
Frank Sinatra
Frankie Machine
Eleanor Parker
Zosch Machine
Leonid Kinskey
Dominiwski
Mike Lally
George Mathews
Williams
Frank Mills
Street Vagrant (uncredited)
Arnold Stang
Sparrow
Emile Meyer
Detective Bednar
Martha Wentworth
Will Wright
Jeffrey Sayre
Club Safari Patron (uncredited)
Robert Strauss
Schwiefka
Doro Merande
Vi
Leonard Bremen
John Conte
Drunky
Jack Mulhall
Gordon Mitchell
Harry 'Snub' Pollard
Street Vagrant (uncredited)
Frank Richards
Frank Marlowe
Jered Barclay
George E. Stone
Sam Markette
Paul E. Burns
Suzanne Ridgway
Martha Crawford
Shelly Manne
Drummer
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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