Six Bridges to Cross

Six Bridges to Cross
Directed byJoseph Pevney
Screenplay bySydney Boehm
Based onThey Stole $25,000,000 – And Got Away with It by Joseph F. Dinneen
Produced byAaron Rosenberg
StarringTony Curtis
George Nader
Julie Adams
CinematographyWilliam H. Daniels
Edited byRussell F. Schoengarth
Color processBlack and white
Production
company
Universal Pictures
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release date
  • January 21, 1955 (1955-01-21)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Box office$1.8 million (US)[1]

Six Bridges to Cross or 6 Bridges to Cross is a 1955 American film noir crime film directed by Joseph Pevney and starring Tony Curtis, George Nader and Julie Adams.[2] Six Bridges to Cross is based upon the famous 1950 Great Brink's Robbery of Boston, Massachusetts in which the thieves made off with roughly $2.5 million.[3][4]

  1. ^ 'The Top Box-Office Hits of 1955', Variety Weekly, January 25, 1956
  2. ^ Murray, Raymond (15 July 1996). Images in the dark: an encyclopedia of gay and lesbian film and video. Plume. p. 225. ISBN 978-0-452-27627-7. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
  3. ^ Sandra Brennan (2012). "Six Bridges to Cross (1955)". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 3 November 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2011.
  4. ^ Baxter, John (1970). The gangster film. A. Zwemmer. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-498-07714-2. Retrieved 14 January 2011.