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Director: Lewis Allen
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From Time Out Film Guide
The title refers to a small town in California, upon which a trio of assassins descends, taking over a house with a fine parallax view of the railroad station, and making prisoners of the occupants, an upstanding suburban family (Gleason and Gates). The movie is lifted from the routine - it was made as a four-week quickie - by Sinatra's performance. When he was interested he could be terrific (Some Came Running, Pal Joey, The Detective). As John Baron, the nobody who became a somebody when WWII put a rifle in his hands and taught him to be a sniper, he's a strutting, sneering psycho. Even better he wears his hat indoors. He won a Silver Star for wiping out Germans. Now he's hauling down $500,000 to hit the President and nobody's gonna get in his way, including town sheriff Sterling Hayden.Author: BC
Cast & crew
Director: Lewis Allen
Producer: Robert Bassler
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason, Nancy Gates, Willis Bouchey, Kim Charney, Paul Frees full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 77 mins
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