Tight Spot (1955)
SHE: "Is that blood?" HE: "I took two bullets through the chest, ma'am. Just routine."
A former model, serving time in prison, becomes a key witness in a trial against a notorious gangster. She is put under protective watch by the District Attorney in a posh hotel, but the crime kingpin makes attempts to get to her.
- Date of release
- 1955-03-19
- TMDB
- 6.6 / 10 (37)
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- Drama, Crime, Thriller
- Director
- Phil Karlson
Casting
- Ginger Rogers — Sherry Conley
- Edward G. Robinson — Lloyd Hallett
- Brian Keith — Vince Striker
- Lucy Marlow — Prison Girl
- Lorne Greene — Benjamin Costain
- Katherine Anderson — Mrs. Willoughby
- Allen Nourse — Marvin Rickles
- Peter Leeds — Fred Packer
- Doye O'Dell — Mississippi Mac
- Eve McVeagh — Clara Moran
- Helen Wallace — Warden (uncredited)
- Gloria Ann Simpson — Miss Masters (uncredited)
Interesting facts
Tight Spot is a 1955 American film noir crime film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson and Brian Keith. The story was inspired by then prominent U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver's strong-arm tactics in coercing Virginia Hill to testify in the infamous Bugsy Siegel organized crime prosecution. The Democratic senator from Tennessee attracted national attention with the new medium of televised investigation hearings on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. The next year saw Kefauver as the Vice Presidential nominee with former Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson II for the Democrats in the 1956 election against Republican incumbent 34th president Dwight D.
Production
Principal photography on Tight Spot took place from September 7 to October 28, 1954. For Edward G. Robinson, Tight Spot was the second film of a two-picture deal struck with Columbia, when his age and political activity had relegated him to his "B-movie" period. For Ginger Rogers, she was playing against type in the role of a "tough, street-smart gangster's moll."
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