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