Joseph Cotten plays an assistant bank manager who steals $1,000,000 from the safe late on a Friday and then plans to flee to Brazil over the weekend.
Direction
Stone's real-time tension, no fat, all nerves.
Acting
Cotten's sweaty desperation, Wright's quiet devastation.
Production
Authentic 1952 travel bureaucracy as thriller engine.
Director
Andrew L. Stone
Joseph Cotten
Jim Osborne
Teresa Wright
Laurie Osborne
Jonathan Hale
Tom Bowers
Walter Sande
Customs Inspector
Eddie Marr
Ken Woodley
Carleton Young
Briggs, airline clerk
Katherine Warren
Mrs. Kellogg
Tom Powers
Valcourt, Travel Agent
Aline Towne
Gail Woodley
Hugh Sanders
Mr. Greer, Passport clerk
Marjorie Bennett
Cleaning Woman (uncredited)
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