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- The film's character-driven story, shot on location in NYC, was based upon the 1957 novel by William P. McGivern, and was scripted by blacklisted black author-writer Abraham Polonsky (alias John O. Killens) and Nelson Gidding.
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Odds Against Tomorrow is a 1959 American film noir produced and directed by Robert Wise and starring Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan and Ed Begley. Belafonte selected Abraham Polonsky to write the script, which is based on a novel of the same name by William P. McGivern.
The film's character-driven story, shot on location in NYC, was based upon the 1957 novel by William P. McGivern, and was scripted by blacklisted black author-writer Abraham Polonsky (alias John O. Killens) and Nelson Gidding.
Feb 9, 2018 · Odds Against Tomorrow takes a premise common to noir — three diametrically opposed men, bound together by desperation despite simmering animosity, plan a heist that seals their doom — but twists...
- Angelica Jade Bastién
- Critic
Jan 20, 2024 · Odds Against Tomorrow is a vital entry in the noir canon. Directed by legend Robert Wise and produced by star Harry Belafonte’s HarBel Productions, the gritty look at racial tension is also one of cinema’s most important films about prejudice.
Jan 22, 2024 · Odds Against Tomorrow was set up by actor and musician Harry Belafonte and was made by his production company. Is it the first film noir with a Black protagonist? This reviewer can’t think of another that preceded it.
Odds Against Tomorrow: Directed by Robert Wise. With Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters, Ed Begley. In need of quick money, a fallen former cop recruits a hard-bitten ex-con and a debt-ridden nightclub singer to pull off a bank job.
Odds Against Tomorrow is, on the surface, similar to The Defiant Ones and films of its ilk in that it creates a situation in which a racist white man (Robert Ryan, here) has to work with a black man (Harry Belafonte, here) in order to achieve a goal that they both share.
