Tight Spot

Tight Spot

Year: 1955

Runtime: 97 mins

Language: English

Director: Phil Karlson

CrimeThrillerDramaCrime drugs and gangstersNoir and dark crime dramas

“Is that blood?” she asks. “I took two bullets through the chest, ma’am—just routine,” he replies. An incarcerated former model becomes the key witness against a notorious gangster. The district attorney places her under protective watch in a hotel, as the crime boss tries to reach her. The film was preserved by the Academy Film Archive with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 1997.

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