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Film Details - Warner Brothers , 1949
Producers:
Louis F. Edelman.
Production Companies:
Warner Brothers.
Director of Photography:
Sid Hickox.
Editors:
Owen Marks.
Music:
Max Steiner.
Cast:
Including James Cagney (Cody Jarrett), Virginia Mayo (Verna Jarrett), Edmond O'Brien (Hank Fallon / Vic Pardo), Margaret Wycherly (Ma Jarrett), Steve Cochran (Big Ed Somers), John Archer (Philip Evans), Wally Cassell (Cotton Valletti), and Fred Clark (Trader Winston).
Release Dates:
3 September 1949 (USA).
Awards:
- Nominated for an Oscar for Best Writing, Motion Picture Story (1950), but Academy rules meant that the nomination went to Virginia Kellogg for the original story and not to Goff and Roberts for the script.
