A Los Angeles teacher becomes a mob target when he agrees to be a star witness in a gangland murder case.
Acting
Bronson's simmering restraint before he became a weapon.
Direction
Tight 75 minutes—no fat, all shadows.
Director
Gene Fowler Jr.
Charles Bronson
Alan Avery
Kent Taylor
Bryce Barker, Meadows' Attonery
Jennifer Holden
Marie, Maxie Meadows' Woman
John Doucette
Maxie Meadows
Gloria Henry
Edie Avery
Barney Phillips
Police Lt. Sam Johnson
Ralph Manza
Bernard 'Axe' Duncan, Reno Hood
George Eldredge
Police Sergeant Ernie Tucker
Lyn Guild
Diane Barker
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bronson made this between TV westerns and The Magnificent Seven—his last anonymity before stardom.
Released during the Kefauver hearings' hangover, when Hollywood couldn't stop making mob testimony movies.
US
