A bank teller attempts to clear his name and rebuild his career after he is wrongly accused of theft.A bank teller attempts to clear his name and rebuild his career after he is wrongly accused of theft.A bank teller attempts to clear his name and rebuild his career after he is wrongly accused of theft.
John Close
- FBI Agent
- (uncredited)
Tom Coleman
- Bank Examiner
- (uncredited)
Hal K. Dawson
- Mr. Johnson - Bank Examiner
- (uncredited)
Sayre Dearing
- Bank Employee
- (uncredited)
George Eldredge
- Policeman
- (uncredited)
Charles Ferguson
- Bank Examiner
- (uncredited)
Sam Flint
- Sam - Bank Guard
- (uncredited)
Don C. Harvey
- Police Detective
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe house on Westward Beach Rd., Westward Beach, Malibu (CA), in the final scenes also appears in the final scenes of Kiss Me Deadly (1955) and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962).
- GoofsWhen Donovan drives away from the telephone booth on the road to the Malibu beach-house the camera and cameraman are reflected in the window of his cab.
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Barry Sullivan has a shortage in his cash drawer
Mike Donovan (Barry Sullivan) is a teller with a problem - a $49,900 shortage (the equivalent of $466,000 in today's money) in his cash for one day. Gus Slavin (Charles McGraw) from the bonding company is sent to investigate. Slavin is sure Mike stole the money, so he's arrested. The cops believe he had a female accomplice.
Everyone believes Mike except Slavin, so the bond company revokes his bond, and he is fired. Slavin also keeps him from keeping other jobs by telling the bosses they've hired a thief.
Slavin figures if he can keep Mike broke, he'll go for the money. Meanwhile Mike and his wife (Dorothy Malone) sell their house and move into a cheaper place.
Mike meanwhile gets a job as a cab driver, and the boss tells Slavin that until Mike is in prison, he's working there. It's in his cab that Mike hears a familiar voice and the wheels start turning. He and his wife devise a plan.
Charles McGraw is fantastic as a relentless investigator who doesn't have a nice bone in his body. He has the strongest role. The revelation is sweet '30s and '40s ingenue Mary Beth Hughes as a hardboiled blonde - she was terrific! Sullivan and Malone are sympathetic characters and play their parts well.
Great seeing all those old '50s cars.
Everyone believes Mike except Slavin, so the bond company revokes his bond, and he is fired. Slavin also keeps him from keeping other jobs by telling the bosses they've hired a thief.
Slavin figures if he can keep Mike broke, he'll go for the money. Meanwhile Mike and his wife (Dorothy Malone) sell their house and move into a cheaper place.
Mike meanwhile gets a job as a cab driver, and the boss tells Slavin that until Mike is in prison, he's working there. It's in his cab that Mike hears a familiar voice and the wheels start turning. He and his wife devise a plan.
Charles McGraw is fantastic as a relentless investigator who doesn't have a nice bone in his body. He has the strongest role. The revelation is sweet '30s and '40s ingenue Mary Beth Hughes as a hardboiled blonde - she was terrific! Sullivan and Malone are sympathetic characters and play their parts well.
Great seeing all those old '50s cars.
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- Oct 24, 2019
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