DAIL 1119-1959-Usually good guy Marshall Thompson is great as a psychotic killer out for revenge on a psychiatrist (Sam Levene; the same year he created the role of Nathan Detroit in the original Broadway production of GUYS AND DOLLS) who he believes is the cause of all his trouble. In reality it was the shrink’s testimony that saved him from death row!
Thompson holds some customers of a gin mill bar hostage while he negotiates with the police. The customers include Keefe Braselle, Leon Ames, Virginia Fields and Andrea King. William Conrad is Chuckles the bartender.
Director Gerald Mayer made a few more movies than moved over to TV directing episodes of THRILLER, MANNIX, THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN and many others. He died in 2001.
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