Overview
Marty is a shipping clerk in the garment district and a wise guy trying to cut corners and get by on angles, and not very good at it. He meets Helen and decides to change his ways, but lack of patience in slow-progress jobs leads him to become involved with a neighborhood gang.
Fun facts
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Based on
Based on All You Need Is One Good Break
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Arnold ManoffScreenplay
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- March 11, 1953
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
Production
Cast
James LiptonMarty- Gaby RodgersHelen
- Ellie PineFrancie
- Leona PowersMrs. Ross
- David ThomasMr. Ross
- Doug TaylorGeorgie
- Art AndersonSleepy
- Jerry AnsbacherBosco
Heywood Hale BrounHospital Clerk- Perry BruskinFreyer
- Charles LewisBenny
Lou GilbertCharlie
Len LesserHunk- Mike LewinMr. Pine
- Cathy ParsonsMildred
- John PellettiBob
- Gordon PetersHenry Miller
- Hester SondergaardAgency Girl
- William MeigsOfficer
- P. Jay SidneyOfficer
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