A well-planned robbery goes awry with tough cop Jim Cordell in pursuit of the thieves.A well-planned robbery goes awry with tough cop Jim Cordell in pursuit of the thieves.A well-planned robbery goes awry with tough cop Jim Cordell in pursuit of the thieves.
- Awards
- 1 nomination
Eddie Borden
- Theatrical Agent
- (uncredited)
Chet Brandenburg
- Cop at Roadblock
- (uncredited)
Barry Brooks
- Witmer - Armored Car Driver
- (uncredited)
Morgan Brown
- Burlesque Theatre Patron
- (uncredited)
Paul Bryar
- Car 6 Patrolman at Pier 5
- (uncredited)
James Bush
- Control Tower Operator
- (uncredited)
Roger Creed
- Police Radio Operator
- (uncredited)
Dick Dickinson
- Newsboy
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThere was a Wrigley Field in Los Angeles. It opened 1925 and mostly used by the Pacific Coast Minor league team the Los Angeles Angels. In 1961 the Los Angeles Angels played their first major league season there. It was demolished in 1969.
- GoofsWhen the Tower notices another plane coming in for a landing on the main runway; the private plane was warned to pull up. But the private plane was still on the ground and not in the take-off stage. It was just taxiing and then it stopped, therefore, it made no sense for the air controller to tell the plane to pull up.
- Quotes
Ryan: [On the phone] We hit pay dirt. The gal in question is Yvonne LeDoux, a bur-le-q queen workin' out of the Bijou Theater, but that's not all. She's also the widow of the late Benny McBride'
Lt. Jim Cordell: Benny's wife, huh?
Ryan: You should see her workin' clothes Imagine a dish like this married to a mug like Benny McBride... the naked and the dead.
Lt. Jim Cordell: Very funny.
- Crazy creditsIn the film's opening credits, the title is surrounded by quotation marks.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Palookaville (1995)
Featured review
Solid little cops-n-robbers flick
Director Richard Fleischer was responsible for two of the best of the low-budget '50s cops-n-robbers flicks, both notable for starring Charles McGraw, one of the great movie bad guys, as a tough detective. One, "The Narrow Margin," is quite well known; this is the other one, and while not as well known, it certainly should be. The story is about a vicious gang of robbers, headed by a murderous psychopath (William Talman, who seemed to have a corner on that market in the '50s), pulls off an armored car robbery that goes awry. Detective McGraw is out to track down the gang. The film is a textbook example of the best of the B movie--swiftly paced, tightly edited, with a good story and a cast of veteran character actors that work together like a well-oiled machine. Some clever plot twists and startling (for the time) violence make this one a keeper. Very highly recommended.
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- BrianG
- Apr 13, 2000
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Details
- Runtime1 hour 7 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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