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The credits fade onto a blind man tapping his way down the sidewalk,he enters a dingy boarding house and hears a shot fired in one of the upstairs bedrooms. A door opens from audience POV. A man tumbles out of the door and falls, slides and slithers down two flights of stairs and is dead when he hits the bottom. Then follows nearly 100 minutes of flashback and flashbacks-within-flashbacks about a veteran returing from the war, tired and disillusioned, only to find that he girl he loves has lied to him about her relationship with another man, and that man is sadistic, boastful and tauntful.
In a drab Rust Belt industrial town, blue collar war veteran Joe Adams, popular with friends and neighbors, inexplicably murders flamboyant magician Maximilian for unclear reasons. Although hordes of police and snipers surround his tiny one room apartment and escape seems impossible, Joe refuses to surrender. During the siege he reflects about his romantic relationships with two women, wholesome Jo Ann and hardened showgirl Charlene, both of whom also share a history with Maximilian.
Henry Fonda
Joe Adams
Barbara Bel Geddes
Jo Ann
Vincent Price
Maximilian the Great
Ann Dvorak
Charlene
Howard Freeman
Sheriff Ned Meade
Moroni Olsen
Chief of Police Bob McManus
Elisha Cook Jr.
Frank Dunlap
Queenie Smith
Mrs. Tully
David Clarke
Bill Pulanski
Charles McGraw
Stevens - Policeman
Melinda Byron
Peggy
Davis Roberts
Freddie
Fred Aldrich
Ticket Taker
Murray Alper
Mac - Bartender
Bobby Barber
Nightclub Patron
Vangie Beilby
Audience Member
Brooks Benedict
Audience Member
Gladys Blake
Millie - Saloon Waitress
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