Movie
99 River Street
Overview
A former boxer turned taxi driver earns the scorn of his nagging wife and gets mixed up with jewel thieves.
Details
- Release date
- 1953-08-21
- Runtime
- 83 min
- Genres
- Crime
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Edward Small Productions, United Artists
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- John Payne as Ernie Driscoll
- Evelyn Keyes as Linda James
- Brad Dexter as Victor Rawlins
- Frank Faylen as Stan Hogan
- Peggie Castle as Pauline Driscoll
- Jay Adler as Christopher
- Jack Lambert as Mickey
- Glenn Langan as Lloyd Morgan
- Eddy Waller as Pop Durkee
- John Daheim as Bud
- Ian Wolfe as Waldo Daggett
- Peter Leeds as Nat Finley
Crew
- Phil Karlson - Director
- Robert Smith - Screenplay
- George Zuckerman - Story
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