starring Harry Belafonte Robert Ryan , Ed Begley with Shelley Winters, Gloria Grahame
Burke, a cold-blooded corrupt ex-policeman, masterminds a bank robbery with the reluctant assistance of Slater, a bitter ex-convict, and Ingram, a Harlem musician heavily in debt to his bookie. But the enterprise is jeopardised by Slater's virulent racial prejudice and a freakish twist of fate.
Screenplay by JOHN o. KILLENS and NELSON GIDDING, from the novel by WILLIAM P. MCGIVERN
Produced and directed by ROBERT WISE