At the age of fourteen, Bart Tare botches a burglary of a hardware store to steal a gun and gets caught. He is sent to reform school by a sympathetic Judge Willoughby, despite the testimony of his friends Dave and Clyde, his older sister Ruby and others, that he would never kill any living creature, even though he has had a fascination with guns even as a child. Flashbacks provide a portrait of Bart who, after he kills a young chick with a BB gun at age seven, is hesitant to harm anyone with guns even though he is a good shot with a handgun.
MPAA Rating: | NR |
Genre: | Crime, Film Noir, Drama, Thriller, Romance |
Country: | United States |
Produced By: | Maurice King, Frank King |
Directed By: | Joseph H. Lewis |
Written By: | Dalton Trumbo, MacKinlay Kantor, Millard Kaufman |
Cast: | Don Beddoe, Ray Teal, Franklyn Farnum, Robert Osterloh, Virginia Farmer, Ross Elliott, Nedrick Young, John Dall, Dale Van Sickel, Peggy Cummins, David Bair, Paul Frison, Russ Tamblyn, Frances Irvin, Morris Carnovsky, Harry Hayden, Jeffrey Sayre, Tony Barr, Mickey Little, Dick Elliott, Harry Lewis, Stanley Prager, Berry Kroeger, George Lynn, Eddie Dunn, Anabel Shaw, Arthur Hecht, Pat Gleason, Trevor Bardette, Anne O'Neal, Joseph Crehan, William J. O'Brien, Shimen Ruskin |
In Theaters: | Jan 20, 1950 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 26 minutes |
Production: | King Brothers Productions |
Budget: | $400,000 |
Box Office: | $17,322 |
Available On: | Amazon, Itunes, Vudu |
Read More On: | Wikipedia |