The Long Wait

Infobox Film | name = The Long Wait


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director = Victor Saville
producer = Lesser Samuels
writer = Mickey Spillane (novel)
Alan Green
Lesser Samuels
starring =Anthony Quinn
Charles Coburn
Gene Evans
music = Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
cinematography = Franz Planer
editing =
distributor = United Artists
released = May 1954 (U.S. release)
runtime = 94 min
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = 0047190

"The Long Wait" is a 1954 film based on a novel by mystery writer Mickey Spillane.

Plot

Johnny McBride is badly hurt while hitch hiking and loses his memory when the car he is riding in crashes. Two years later, a clue leads him to his old home town, where he finds he is a murder suspect. Johnny tries to clear his name of the presumed murder charges. Thugs working for the local mob boss try to end his meddling.

Reaction

Film Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style by Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward notes: "The inclusion of amnesia, giving the hero a sense of hopelessness compounded by the frustration of his loss of identity, instills a distinct existential bias into McBride's search. This attitude combines with a pervading sense of corruption and dehumanization to give "The Long Wait" a fatalistic noir ethos."cite book | author= Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward| title=Film Noir An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style | publisher =The Overlook Press | year=1992 | id=ISBN 0-87951-479-5]

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