Sunday, September 1, 2024

ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW (1959)

 




















Directed by: Robert Wise
Produced by: Abraham PolonskyNelson Gidding
Based on the novel by: William P. McGivern
Starring: Harry BelafonteRobert RyanShelley WintersEd Begley SrGloria GrahameWill KuluvaKim HamiltonMae BarnesRichard BrightCarmen De LavalladeLew GalloLois ThorneWayne RogersZohra LampertAllen Nourse

95 minutes
(NR - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence)

PLOT:
Dave Burke looks to hire two men to assist him in a bank raid: Earle Slater, a white ex-convict, and Johnny Ingram, a Black gambler. Both are reluctant, but Burke arranges for Ingram's creditors to pressure him, while Slater feels humiliated by his failure to provide for his girlfriend; they eventually accept. But Slater loathes and despises Black people, and the tensions in the gang rapidly mount.

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