Odds Against Tomorrow

Odds Against Tomorrow is a 1959 film noir produced and directed by Robert Wise for HarBel Productions, a company founded by the films star, Harry Belafonte. Belafonte selected Abraham Polonsky to write the script, which is based on a novel by William P. McGivern. As a blacklisted writer Polonsky used a front, John O. Killens, a black novelist and friend of Belafontes. In 1996, the Writers Guild of America restored Polonskys credit under his real name.

David Burke Ed Begley is a former policeman who was ruined when he refused to cooperate with state crime investigators. He has asked hardbitten, racist, excon Earl Slater Robert Ryan to help him rob an upstate bank, promising him 50,000 if the robbery is successful. Burke also recruits Johnny Ingram Belafonte, a nightclub entertainer who doesnt want the job but who is addicted to gambling and is in debt.Slater, who is supported by his girlfriend, Lorry Shelley Winters, finds out Ingram is black and refuses the job. Later, he realizes that he needs the money, and joins Ingram and Burke in the enterprise. ........

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