Never Love a Stranger
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| Never Love a Stranger | |
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| Directed by | Robert Stevens |
| Produced by | Richard Day Peter Gettinger Harold Robbins |
| Written by | Richard Day Harold Robbins |
| Starring | John Drew Barrymore Steve McQueen Lita Milan Robert Bray |
| Music by | Raymond Scott |
| Cinematography | Lee Garmes |
| Editing by | Sidney Katz |
| Distributed by | Allied Artists Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 1958 |
| Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Never Love A Stranger is a 1958 crime and gangster film shot in black and white starring John Drew Barrymore, Lita Milan, and Robert Bray, and featuring a young Steve McQueen.
The noir film is about Frankie Kane (Barrymore) who is brought up in a Catholic orphanage. He befriends a Jewish law student named Martin Cabell (McQueen) and becomes romantically involved with Cabell's sister Julie (Milan). Kane learns later that he is also Jewish, and when told he will be removed from the orphanage and moved to a Jewish home he runs away and turns to a life of crime. Later, after joining a major crime syndicate, he reconnects with Julie, finally deciding to join Martin, now a District Attorney in shutting down the syndicate.
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- John Drew Barrymore as Frankie Kane
- Lita Milan as Julie Cabell
- Steve McQueen as Martin Cabell
- Robert Bray as "Silk" Fennelli
- Salem Ludwig as Moishe Moscowitz
- R.G. Armstrong as Flix
- Douglas Rodgers as Brother Bernard
- Felice Orlandi as Bert
- Augusta Merighi as Mrs. Cozzolina
- Abe Simon as "Fats" Crown
- Vitina Marcus as Frances Kane
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