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The Long Wait

Crime · Drama

The Long Wait

"Three Thrill-Hungry Dames Played Me For A Sucker - NOW, IT'S MY TURN"

5.9(21) 5/26/1954 1h 34m
CrimeDrama

Soon after thumbing a ride from a truck driver, Johnny McBride is badly burned and suffers from complete amnesia when the vehicle he’s riding in blows a tire and goes over an embankment in a fiery blaze. McBride later receives a tip from an acquaintance that a photo of him was placed prominently in the window of a photography studio in a town called Lyncastle, so Johnny immediately leaves for the burg in the hopes that something there will jog his memory.

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Top Cast

Anthony Quinn

Anthony Quinn

Johnny McBride

Charles Coburn

Charles Coburn

Gardiner

Gene Evans

Gene Evans

Servo

Peggie Castle

Peggie Castle

Venus

Mary Ellen Kay

Mary Ellen Kay

Wendy Miller

Shirley Patterson

Shirley Patterson

Carol Shay (as Shawn Smith)

Dolores Donlon

Dolores Donlon

Troy Avalon

Barry Kelley

Barry Kelley

Tucker

Directed by

Victor Saville

Production

Reviews

John Chard

7/10

1/21/2017

The Lyncastle Lasso. The Long Wait is directed by Victor Saville and adapted to screenplay by Alan Green and Lesser Samuels from the Mickey Spillane novel. It stars Anthony Quinn, Charles Coburn, Gene Evans, Peggie Castle, Mary Ellen Kay and Shirley Patterson. Music is by Mario Castelnuovo- Tedesco and cinematography by Franz Planer. Johnny McBride (Quinn) is a amnesiac who manages to get back to his home town of Lyncastle where he hopes to unravel who he is. But pretty soon he finds himself in a quagmire of trouble and strife... Every once in a while I come across an instance like this, where a film noir picture's reviews back upon its release were savage, and yet today the more modern noir lover is mostly positive about the pic. In fact IMDb's rating sits currently at 7.2, which

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