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