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Mar 24, 2023. Rated: 3.5/5 • Mar 10, 2023. Disgraced former police officer David Burke (Ed Begley) is looking for a way to make some quick money. When he decides to rob a bank, he calls on mean...
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) is often acknowledged as one of the last films to appear in the film noir cycle which reached its height in the post-World War II era. However, this crime thriller is much more complex than the standard genre entry.
In need of quick money, fallen former cop David Burke ( Ed Begley) recruits hard-bitten ex-con Earl Slater ( Robert Ryan and debt-ridden nightclub singer Johnny Ingram (Belafonte) to pull off a bank job. But as the animosity between Johnny and the racist Slater boils over, the entire plan threatens to implode.
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) In director Robert Wise's engrossing, landmark, noirish crime melodrama - it was the first film noir with a black protagonist (Harry Belafonte, who also produced the film through his own independent company HarBel). The film's character-driven story, shot on location in NYC, was based upon the 1957 novel by William ...
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.
Play Trailer. He knew where $50,000 lay begging to be STOLEN! Overview. An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare. Robert Wise. Director. William P. McGivern. Novel. Abraham Polonsky. Screenplay. Nelson Gidding. Screenplay. An old-time crook plans a heist.
