Tight Spot (1955)

Directed by

Phil Karlson

Genre

drama film, film noir

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 35 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman is pressured by a senator and law enforcement to testify against a mob boss. She is kept in a hotel room for her safety while they try to convince her to cooperate.

tenseclaustrophobicnoir-ishsuspensefulgrittycerebralmelodramaticedgy

What happens

Tight Spot is a 1955 American film noir crime film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson and Brian Keith. The story was inspired by then prominent U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver's strong-arm tactics in coercing Virginia Hill to testify in the infamous Bugsy Siegel organized crime prosecution. The Democratic senator from Tennessee attracted national attention with the new medium of televised investigation hearings on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. The next year saw Kefauver as the Vice Presidential nominee with former Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson II for the Democrats in the 1956 election against Republican incumbent 34th president Dwight D. Eisenhower and his running mate Richard M. Nixon, who were reelected. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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