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Emmy Award-winner Ben Gazzara ("Happiness," "The Big Lebowski") portrays a convicted killer who, when he receives a reprieve from a date with the electric chair, goes on to find redemption in prison. An all-star cast provides strong support in this drama based on a true story. Also starring Emmy Award-winner Ray Walston (TV's "Picket Fences," "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"), Academy Award-winner Rod Steiger ("In the Heat of the Night," "On the Waterfront"), Academy Award-winner Broderick Crawford ("All the King's Men," "Born Yesterday"), and Hollywood legends Sammy Davis, Jr. ("Ocean's Eleven," "Robin and the Seven Hoods") and Vincent Price ("Edward Scissorhands," "House on Haunted Hill"). Written and directed by Academy Award-nominee Millard Kaufman ("Bad Day at Black Rock," Raintree County").
Original Release
09/15/1962
US Release
09/15/1962
Cast
Name | Character |
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Ben Gazzara | John Resko |
Stuart Whitman | Principal Keeper |
Ray Walston | Iggy |
Vincent Price | Carl Carmer |
Rod Steiger | Tiptoes |
Broderick Crawford | Warden |
Dodie Stevens | Resko's Sister |
Jack Kruschen | Resko's Father |
Sammy Davis Jr. | Wino |
Naomi Stevens | Resko's Mother |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Ben Gazzara | John Resko |
Stuart Whitman | Principal Keeper |
Ray Walston | Iggy |
Vincent Price | Carl Carmer |
Rod Steiger | Tiptoes |
Broderick Crawford | Warden |
Dodie Stevens | Resko's Sister |
Jack Kruschen | Resko's Father |
Sammy Davis Jr. | Wino |
Naomi Stevens | Resko's Mother |
Adam Williams | Guard |
Jack Albertson | Teach |
John Kellogg | Guard |
Robert H. Harris | Commissioner |
Carmen Phillips | Connie Resko |
Timothy Carey | Nick |
Myron Healey | Gunther |
Lee Krieger | Stanley |
Josip Elic | Vic the Barber |
Arthur Malet | Storekeeper |
Producers
Name | Role |
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A. Ronald Lubin | Producer |