| Tight Spot | |
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| Directed by | Phil Karlson |
| Screenplay by | William Bowers |
| Based on | Dead Pigeon 1953 play by Lenard Kantor[1] |
| Produced by | Lewis J. Rachmil |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Burnett Guffey |
| Edited by | Viola Lawrence |
| Music by | George Duning |
| Color process | Black and white |
Production company | Columbia Pictures |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 96 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Tight Spot is a 1955 American film noir crime film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson and Brian Keith. The story was inspired by then prominent U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver's strong-arm tactics in coercing Virginia Hill to testify in the infamous Bugsy Siegel organized crime prosecution. The Democratic senator from Tennessee attracted national attention with the new medium of televised investigation hearings on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. The next year saw Kefauver as the Vice Presidential nominee with former Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson II for the Democrats in the 1956 election against Republican incumbent 34th president Dwight D. Eisenhower and his running mate Richard M. Nixon, who were reelected.
- ^ Kabatchnik, Amnon (2011-04-14). Blood on the Stage, 1950-1975: Milestone Plays of Crime, Mystery, and Detection. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810877849.