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