Tight Spot

Tight Spot
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPhil Karlson
Screenplay byWilliam Bowers
Based onDead Pigeon
1953 play
by Lenard Kantor[1]
Produced byLewis J. Rachmil
Starring
CinematographyBurnett Guffey
Edited byViola Lawrence
Music byGeorge Duning
Color processBlack and white
Production
company
Columbia Pictures
Distributed byColumbia Pictures
Release date
  • March 19, 1955 (1955-03-19)
Running time
96 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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.

  1. ^ Kabatchnik, Amnon (2011-04-14). Blood on the Stage, 1950-1975: Milestone Plays of Crime, Mystery, and Detection. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810877849.