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

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