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