Following the life of an orphan and the events that change his life and lead him into a life of crime.Following the life of an orphan and the events that change his life and lead him into a life of crime.Following the life of an orphan and the events that change his life and lead him into a life of crime.
Vitina Marcus
- Frances Kane
- (as Dolores Vitina)
Gino Ardito
- Willy
- (uncredited)
Richard Bright
- Street Gang Tough Lookout
- (uncredited)
Walter Burke
- Jimmy Keough
- (uncredited)
Dort Clark
- Madigan
- (uncredited)
John Dalz
- Father Quinn
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaFirst credited feature film role of Steve McQueen, who was credited fourth, portraying a character named Martin Cabell.
- GoofsIn the opening scene of the movie (the scene is titled on-screen as "New York 1912"), Frances Kane is shown walking down a city street toward the midwife's home. In the far background to the left is the rear of a parked car from the 1950s.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Steve McQueen: The King of Cool (1998)
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Citizen Kane
Co.produced from his first novel by Harold Robbins, plainly patterned after 'The Public Enemy' and 'Angels with Dirty Faces' and ambitious enough to hire top cameraman Lee Garmes and commission a romantic musical score from Raymond Scott (with a moralising commentary of the sort later parodied by Russ Meyer). It's failure obviously decided Robbins to stick thereafter to glossy trash (a decision that swiftly made his fortune).
As a leading man John Drew Barrymore as a Jewish gangster proves a chip off the old block, while fourth-billed Steve McQueen as a Jewish lawyer (described by the late David Shipman as resembling "a Botticelli angel crossed with a chimp") already demonstrates the star quality that soon took him to the top and kept him there until his untimely death.
As Barrymore's mother Dolores Vitina is unrecognisable as the sexy green alien (billed as 'Vitina Marcus') she later played in 'Lost in Space', while R.G.Armstrong is allowed more nuance than one initially anticipates as a hired gun.
As a leading man John Drew Barrymore as a Jewish gangster proves a chip off the old block, while fourth-billed Steve McQueen as a Jewish lawyer (described by the late David Shipman as resembling "a Botticelli angel crossed with a chimp") already demonstrates the star quality that soon took him to the top and kept him there until his untimely death.
As Barrymore's mother Dolores Vitina is unrecognisable as the sexy green alien (billed as 'Vitina Marcus') she later played in 'Lost in Space', while R.G.Armstrong is allowed more nuance than one initially anticipates as a hired gun.
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- Der Gangsterkönig von New York
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- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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By what name was Never Love a Stranger (1958) officially released in Canada in English?
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