Directed by:
Don SiegelScreenplay:
Gene L. CoonCinematography:
Richard L. RawlingsCast:
Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Clu Gulager, Claude Akins, Norman Fell, Ronald Reagan, Virginia Christine, Seymour Cassel, Bert Stevens (more)Plots(1)
"I gotta find out what makes a man decide not to run. Why all of a sudden he'd rather die". So muses hitman Charlie (Lee Marvin) after his high-priced victim Johnny North (John Cassavetes) gives in without a fight. Obsessed with the answer, Charlie and his hot-headed associate Lee (Clu Gulager) track down Johnny's associates, and uncover a complex web of crime and deceit involving his femme fatale girlfriend Sheila (Angie Dickinson) and ruthless mob boss Jack Browning (Ronald Reagan in his last screen role). (Arrow Films)
(more)Cast
Lee Marvin
USA
Best movies:
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
The Big Heat (1953)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
Angie Dickinson
USA
Best movies:
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Rio Bravo (1959)
The Chase (1966)
John Cassavetes
USA
Best movies:
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
Clu Gulager
USA
Best movies:
The Last Picture Show (1971)
North and South (1985) (series)
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
Claude Akins
USA
Best movies:
Inherit the Wind (1960)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Norman Fell
USA
Best movies:
The Graduate (1967)
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Ronald Reagan
USA
Best movies:
'Weird Al' Yankovic: The Videos (1996) (video compilation)
Storm Warning (1951)
Trumbo (2015) - a.f.
Virginia Christine
USA
Best movies:
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Seymour Cassel
USA
Best movies:
In the Soup (1992)
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
Faces (1968)
Bert Stevens
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Burt Mustin
USA
Best movies:
Detective Story (1951)
The Desperate Hours (1955)
The Lusty Men (1952)
Robert Phillips
USA
Best movies:
The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Cry Freedom (1987)
How the West Was Won (1976) (series)
Kathleen O'Malley
USA
Best movies:
Dirty Harry (1971)
Westward the Women (1951)
Airport (1970)
Richard Lane
USA
Best movies:
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Carefree (1938)
Don Haggerty
USA
Best movies:
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Dirty Harry (1971)
The Desperate Hours (1955)
Davis Roberts
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Roots (1977) (series)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Scott Hale
Best movies:
Girl on the Run (1953)
Dirty Harry (1971)
The Killers (1964)
Ron Nyman
UK
Best movies:
The Ten Commandments (1956)
The Seven Year Itch (1955)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
James Gonzalez
USA
Best movies:
North by Northwest (1959)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
Peter Hobbs
France
Best movies:
Sleeper (1973)
The Killers (1964)
The Andromeda Strain (1971)