House of Numbers | |
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Directed by | Russell Rouse |
Screenplay by | Don Mankiewicz Russell Rouse |
Based on | the novel House of Numbers by Jack Finney |
Produced by | Charles Schnee |
Starring | Jack Palance Barbara Lang |
Cinematography | George J. Folsey |
Edited by | John McSweeney Jr. |
Music by | André Previn |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release date |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $1,008,000[1] |
Box office | $1.1 million[1] |
House of Numbers is a 1957 American film noir, based on author Jack Finney's 1957 novel of the same name, starring Jack Palance and Barbara Lang.[2][3]
In the film, Palance plays two similar-looking brothers: Bill and his younger brother Arnie Judlow.[4] Bill is a good citizen, trying to help his ex-professional boxer brother, Arnie, convicted of murder, escape from San Quentin State Prison to return to Arnie's wife, Ruth, played by Lang.[5]
The movie was filmed on location at San Quentin and set in San Quentin and Mill Valley, California, then the home city of author Finney.[6]