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