Fiction

ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW

Robert Wise
USA 1958
96 min
V'11

In an enterprise as ticklish and perilous as robbing a bank, it is impolitic for two participants to be divided by race prejudice. That is the one uncommon message to pop out of Odds Against Tomorrow, a sharp, hard, suspenseful melodrama that came to the Victoria yesterday. Robert Ryan plays the bigot who frankly scorns and distrusts his confederate, Harry Belafonte, in a stickup in a Hudson Valley town. And Ed Begley Sr. plays the ex-policeman who masterminds the job and tries to maintain the social amenities between his snarling associates. (...) The sheer dramatic build-up of this contemplation of a crime is of an artistic caliber that is rarely achieved on the screen. Under the tight and strong direction of the realist, Robert Wise, the drama accumulates tensely, with fast, easy clarity, and the whole thing has an intensely sharp, true pictorial quality. (Bosley Crowther, “New York Times”, 1959)

Credits
  • Harry Belafonte - Johnny Ingram
  • Robert Ryan - Earle Slater
  • Shelley Winters - Lorry
  • Ed Begley Sr. - Dave Burke
  • Gloria Grahame - Helen
  • Will Kuluva - Bacco
  • Abraham Polonsky (Front: John O. Killens)
  • Nelson Gidding nach dem Roman von William P. McGivern
  • Joseph C. Brun
  • Dick Vorisek
  • Edward J. Johnstone
  • Kenn Collins
  • Dede Allen
  • John Lewis
  • Leo Kerz
  • Anna Hill Johnstone
HarBel Productions
Park Circus
35 mm
bw
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