Odds Against Tomorrow

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Directed by

Robert Wise

Starring (View all)

Harry Belafonte
Ingram

Robert Ryan
Slater

Shelley Winters
Lorry

Ed Begley
Burke

Gloria Grahame
Helen

Will Kuluva
Bacco

Kim Hamilton
Ruth

Richard Bright
Coco

Written by

Abraham Polonsky

Nelson Gidding
(screenplay)

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7 years, 9 months ago at Jul 20 0:16

fernando

Wise at his most happily pretentious. Jazz is perfect for the atmosphere (Belafonte performs a nice calypso-blues). Good timing, tension, the escape to the newyork hinterland, good false plantings (Ryan playing with the little afro girl before we know his racism), Belafonte tender touches. Shellye and Gloria Grahame, good beaten noir femmes.

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Release date: 1 November 1959
UPC: 027616899583

Tags: Drama (2), Thriller (1), Crime (1), Film Noir (1), Noir (1), 1950s (1), 1959 (1), HQ (1), 50's (1), United Artists (1), Belafonte (1)

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"Odds Against Tomorrow centers on the racial tension between Earle Slater (Robert Ryan) and Johnny Ingram (Harry Belafonte), and pivots around the idea that regardless of the context, people will always screw each other out of what they’ve earned because of arbitrary differences. The bulk of Robert Wise’s film is spent building up the characters so that they can be knocked down later: Ryan’s war vet is over the hill and struggling to keep his girl with him, while Belafonte’s xylophonist i"