Odds Against Tomorrow
He knew where $50,000 lay begging to be STOLEN!
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 36 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 29, 2018
- Originally Released: 1959
- Label: Olive
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan & Shelley Winters | |
Performer: | Ed Begley, Gloria Grahame, Will Kuluva & Richard Bright | |
Directed by | Robert Wise | |
Edited by | Dede Allen | |
Screenplay by | Abraham Polonsky & Nelson Gidding | |
Composition by | John Lewis | |
Produced by | Robert Wise | |
Director of Photography: | Joseph Brun |
Entertainment Reviews:
Ambitious but mainly unsuccessful.
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Chicago Reader
A taut, downbeat, New York-shot bank heist thriller.
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Time Out
Without preaching, the story's ending offers a richly ironic lesson about race prejudice.
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Maclean's Magazine
Director Robert Wise has drawn fine performances from his players. It is the most sustained acting Belafonte has done. Ryan makes the flesh crawl as the fanatical bigot.
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Variety
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Here's a nifty slice of noir that not only was filmed in black-and-white but also focuses on black and white.
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Creative Loafing
...The acting is strong, the black-and-white photography crisp and the robbery tense... -- 3 out of 4 stars
USA Today
Rating: B+ --
A powerful film noir that underscores socially conscious issues.
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Product Description:
ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW, a crackling crime caper with an undercurrent of racial tension, combines the desperation of three men--two of whom hate each other--and the culmination of that desperation in the form of a robbery. The film, which includes a fantastic jazz score by pianist John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet, is a film noir gem. David Burke (Ed Begley), a former policeman who once served a prison sentence, has asked bigoted southerner Earl Slater (Robert Ryan) to rob an upstate bank with him, promising him $50,000 in small bills if the robbery is successful. Burke also recruits Johnny Ingram (Harry Belafonte, who also helped produce the film), a nightclub entertainer who doesn't want the job but who is hopelessly addicted to gambling and is in debt. At first Slater, who is supported by his girlfriend, Lorry (Shelley Winters), finds out Ingram is black and refuses the job but, realizing he needs the money, decides after all to join Ingram and Burke in the venture. When they embark on the robbery, however, all hell breaks loose as danger--and the tension between Ingram and Slater--mount.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 64,227
- UPC: 887090141512
- Shipping Weight: 0.21/lbs (approx)
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