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