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