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