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