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

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