Howard Duff and Jay C. Flippen made their screen debuts in this picture. Duff, who played the character of "Soldier" in the film, was known for his portrayal of Sam Spade on the CBS radio series The Adventures of Sam Spade, and Flippen, who played "Guard Hodges," was a New York baseball commentator.
Howard Duff and Jay C. Flippen made their screen debuts in this picture. Duff, who played the character of "Soldier" in the film, was known for his portrayal of Sam Spade on the CBS radio series The Adventures of Sam Spade, and Flippen, who played "Guard Hodges," was a New York baseball commentator.
Jay C. Flippen was one of those actors who couldn't carry a film, but they made any film they were in so much better. He turned up in most of James Stewart's fifties westerns, & as the sheriff in Cat Ballou.
Howard Duff and Jay C. Flippen made their screen debuts in this picture. Duff, who played the character of "Soldier" in the film, was known for his portrayal of Sam Spade on the CBS radio series The Adventures of Sam Spade, and Flippen, who played "Guard Hodges," was a New York baseball commentator.
Even Miklos Rozsa got confused. He described his Background to Violence suite as comprising two movements apiece from BRUTE FORCE, THE KILLERS, and THE NAKED CITY. But I seem to recall that part of one movement was actually mislabeled. The music came from one or both of the first two films. Can anybody refresh my memory on this?
Somebody ought to make a new recording of that suite. There seems to be a lot of pent-up demand for music from Rozsa's "noir" period, and the score is right there for the plucking at Syracuse.
