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