Details

Release year: 1955

Storyline

After being wounded by a bullet, bank robber Charlie Blake seeks shelter with his gang at his brother's mountain retreat. There he rekindles his romance with his brother's wife and reconnects with the boy he believes is his son.

Top credits

Directors

Cornel Wilde

Writers

Cast

Cornel Wilde — Charlie Blake
Jean Wallace — Elizabeth Blake
Dan Duryea — Fred Blake
Lee Grant — Edna Rogers

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Did you know

• Cornel Wilde cast Lee Grant, who at that time had been blacklisted because of the Joseph McCarthy "red scare" that gripped Hollywood. This was her only feature role in the eight-year span between her debut, Detective Story (1951), and Middle of the Night (1959). Grant later noted that she earned enough money on the film to afford to have a baby; her daughter, Dinah Manoff, went on to become a Tony-winning actress.

• Tiring of playing heroic roles, Cornel Wilde deliberately cast himself as the villain, and then emphasized this switch by giving the sickly husband role to perennial bad guy Dan Duryea.

• Cornel Wilde and Jean Wallace were married at the time of this film and they also co-owned Theodora Productions which produced this picture.