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Frankie Madison leaves prison expecting a share from his ex-partner. But Prohibition bootlegging didn't prepare Frankie for Big Business.Frankie Madison leaves prison expecting a share from his ex-partner. But Prohibition bootlegging didn't prepare Frankie for Big Business.Frankie Madison leaves prison expecting a share from his ex-partner. But Prohibition bootlegging didn't prepare Frankie for Big Business.
Jorge Rigaud
- Maurice
- (as George Rigaud)
Bobby Barber
- Newsboy
- (uncredited)
Brooks Benedict
- Nightclub Patron
- (uncredited)
John Bishop
- Ben
- (uncredited)
Charles D. Brown
- Police Lt. Hollaran
- (uncredited)
Gino Corrado
- George
- (uncredited)
James Davies
- Masseur
- (uncredited)
Jean Del Val
- Henri the Chef
- (uncredited)
Jimmie Dundee
- Hijack Driver
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaFirst of seven films that Kirk Douglas and Burt Lancaster made together.
- Goofs(at around 57 min) Dave has explained how the club is organized financially. Frankie turns, walks away in confusion, then turns back to Dave facing downstage right. Then there is a jump cut and Frankie is suddenly turned 90 degrees facing downstage left.
- Quotes
Nick Palestro: For a buck, you'd double-cross your own mother.
Skinner: Why not? She'd do the same to me.
- ConnectionsEdited into Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
- SoundtracksDon't Call It Love
Lyrics by Ned Washington
Music by Allie Wrubel
Performed by Trudy Stevens (uncredited)
[Kay (Lizabeth Scott) sings the song at the club]
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I WALK ALONE (Byron Haskin, 1948) **1/2
Three of the stars from DESERT FURY (1947) – Burt Lancaster, Lizabeth Scott and Wendell Corey – were reunited in another, marginally superior noir that is most notable today for marking the first of seven screen pairings between Lancaster and Kirk Douglas. Although it was still very early in their careers, they had already become typecast as, respectively, the jilted, ex-con hero and the suave, slimy villain and this film has them reprising those characterizations – albeit less effectively than their prototype seen earlier in THE KILLERS (1946) and OUT OF THE PAST (1947); the same goes for Scott and Corey who both share a divided loyalty towards the two male leads. I WALK ALONE can also be said to have kick-started the directorial career of former technician Byron Haskin which lasted for twenty versatile years; unfortunately, that fact is borne out by the surprising lack of pace (which makes the film seem longer than its 98-minute running-time) and a rather weak climactic confrontation. Even so, the film is most interesting in the way it depicts the change in crime syndication (from streetwise toughness in the bootlegging Depression days to business acumen in the capitalist post-WWII era) that occurred during the fourteen years Lancaster spent behind bars: this is highlighted in a sharply amusing sequence when accountant Corey wrecks Lancaster's dream of owning half of Douglas' business empire (as they had verbally agreed on all those years before) by disclosing in "double-talk" the complex legal relationship that exists between the various companies owned by Douglas!
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- 14 Jahre Sing-Sing
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- Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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