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