Odds Against Tomorrow
- Harry Belafonte: Harry Ingram
- Robert Ryan: Earle Slater
- Shelley Winters: Lorry
- Ed Begley: Dave Burke
- Gloria Grahame: Helen
- Will Kuluva: Bacco
- Kim Hamilton: Ruth Ingram
- Mae Barnes: Annie
- Richard Bright: Coco
- Carmen De Lavallade: Kittie
- Lew Gallo: Moriarty
- Lois Thorne: Edie Ingram
- Wayne Rogers: Soldier in Bar
- Zohra Lampert: Girl in Bar
- Allen Nourse: Sheriff
Few chances for tomorrow ( Original title: Odds Against Tomorrow ) is a twisted black and white film noir by Robert Wise 's 1959 The screenplay was based on the novel by fear whipped the writer William P. McGivern. .
Action
In order to finance his retirement appropriate, the dishonorably discharged from the service in New York policeman Dave Burke is planning a bank robbery in a nearby provincial town. Because he alone can not implement his plan, he tried two accomplices to win it: the racist ex-con Earl Slater, who was manslaughter in prison, and the young Puerto Rican jazz musician Johnny Ingram, who has borrowed heavily in horse betting. As Slater acknowledges that it is a black man at Ingram, he refuses at first, as well as how well Ingram, who will generally have nothing to do with the matter. But as Ingram's creditors threaten little daughter on Burke's instigation, Ingrams, this also agrees yet. And also the impulsive Slater, who can bear it no longer to be endured by his girlfriend Lorry, think about it differently. However, due to Slater's racism fails the bank robbery tragically.
Background
The film opened on October 15, 1959 in the cinemas of the United States. In Germany it was released in theaters on January 29, 1960.
Historically film applies Few chances for tomorrow, depending on reading as the last film of the classic era of film noir or as the first " neo-noir ".
Author Abraham Polonsky was considered one of the most prominent victims of the witch-hunt of the McCarthy era in Hollywood barred from conducting business. The screenplay for big opportunities for tomorrow, he wrote about under the name John O. Killens, a black novelist and friend Harry Belafonte.
Criticism
" Exciting, perfectly staged thriller, noir ' Hollywood ties in models from. The inclusion of the racial problem is indeed primarily to motivate the disunity of the criminals in a new genre variant, but the psychological accents are set quite clever and condense to social criticism. "
" Few chances for tomorrow is a very late and very successful example of the noir genre. "