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Odds Against Tomorrow is a 1959 American film noir produced and directed by Robert Wise and starring Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan and Ed Begley. Belafonte selected Abraham Polonsky to write the script, which is based on a novel of the same name by William P. McGivern.
Odds Against Tomorrow: Directed by Robert Wise. With Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters, Ed Begley. In need of quick money, a fallen former cop recruits a hard-bitten ex-con and a debt-ridden nightclub singer to pull off a bank job.
- (5.6K)
- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Robert Wise
- 1959-11
The Set-Up: Directed by Robert Wise. With Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter. Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
- (10K)
- Crime, Film-Noir, Sport
- Robert Wise
- 1949-04-02
Jan 30, 2020 · Odds Against Tomorrow is a 1959 film noir produced and directed by Robert Wise and starring Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame, Shelley Winters. He selected Abraham Polonsky to write the script, which is based on a novel of the same name by William P. McGivern.
- 96 min
Jun 1, 2022 · Wise directed Robert Ryan in The Set-Up a decade earlier, and he once again finagles one of the actor’s best performances. They take a character that should be outright contemptible and make him tragic through an alternating series of outbursts and embarrassments.
The Set-Up is a 1949 American film noir boxing drama directed by Robert Wise and starring Robert Ryan and Audrey Totter. The screenplay was adapted by Art Cohn from a 1928 narrative poem of the same name by Joseph Moncure March.
Robert Wise, who died at age 91 on September 14, was the noted film editor of Citizen Kane (1941) and other movies before he became a producer and director, and all his works are marked by striking visual rhythms.
