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