Shelley Winters always seemed to specialise in playing roles of rather seedy, superficial glamorous, looking women who are down on their luck because they mix in bad company.Here she mixes with an assortment of low life Chicago characters, having married a man executed in the electric chair for murder.This fact she hides from her son (James Darren) because he is too young to bear the truth.Her son is gifted at music but Shelley has too many balls in the air trying to raise her family on the wages of a bar room hostess/waitress because she does not possess any other marketable skills.Dubbed on the soundtrack was a snippet of Beethoven's Pathetique sonata and Chopin which her son "plays" in preparation for his audition at the conservatoire in Chicago.
Burl Ives is on hand to give a surrogate father's advice to James Darren and Shelley to keep them on the straight and narrow.He plays a drunken ex-judge who gives his life trying to save Shelley and James from an evil drug pusher played by Riccardo Montalban.A young Jean Seburg plays the love interest to James Darren the latter of whom I first saw in the 1961 film "The Guns of Navarone" which had a stellar cast.Passable, I rated the above film 6/10.
Burl Ives is on hand to give a surrogate father's advice to James Darren and Shelley to keep them on the straight and narrow.He plays a drunken ex-judge who gives his life trying to save Shelley and James from an evil drug pusher played by Riccardo Montalban.A young Jean Seburg plays the love interest to James Darren the latter of whom I first saw in the 1961 film "The Guns of Navarone" which had a stellar cast.Passable, I rated the above film 6/10.