Stany Zjednoczone,
1960, 60 min
Reżyseria:
Herschel Daugherty, Mitchell Leisen, Richard Carlson, László Benedek, William F. Claxton, Robert Florey, John Newland, Ted Post, Ray Milland, Ida Lupino, Arthur Hiller, John Brahm, John English, Paul Henreid, Herman Hoffman, Gerald Mayer, Douglas Heyes, Jules Bricken, Maurice Geraghty (więcej)Pierwowzór:
Cornell Woolrich (powieść), Robert Bloch (opowiadanie), Lionel White (powieść), Charlotte Armstrong (powieść), August Derleth (opowiadanie), Nelson Bond (opowiadanie), Henry Kuttner (opowiadanie), Wilkie Collins (opowiadanie), Robert E. Howard (opowiadanie) (więcej)Scenariusz:
Howard Rodman, Barré Lyndon, Douglas Heyes, Mark Hanna, Jason Wingreen, Alan Caillou, Philip MacDonald, Mel Goldberg, Maxwell Shane, Charles Beaumont, Oscar Millard, Terry Nation, Robert Hardy Andrews, August Derleth, Robert Dozier, Richard Lupino, Jay Simms, John Kneubuhl, Donald S. Sanford, William D. Gordon, John Tomerlin, Boris Sobelman, John Vlahos, Jess Carneol, Kay Lenard, George Bellak (więcej)Zdjęcia:
John L. Russell, Lionel Lindon, Ray Rennahan, Henry Freulich, Benjamin H. Kline, William Margulies, Bud Thackery, John F. Warren, Kenneth Peach, Ray Flin, Neal Beckner (więcej)Obsada:
Boris Karloff, Hazel Court, George Macready, Elizabeth Montgomery, Mary Tyler Moore, Warren Oates, John Anderson, William Shatner, Estelle Winwood, Marion Ross, Vito Scotti, Parley Baer, Natalie Trundy, Richard Reeves, Marlo Thomas, Donna Douglas, Ramon Novarro, Luciana Paluzzi, Michael Pate, Philip Carey, Aron Kincaid, Norma Crane, George Grizzard, Patricia Medina, Robert Webber, Mala Powers, Charles McGraw, Everett Sloane, George Maharis, Mona Freeman, Monika Henreid, Frieda Inescort, Macdonald Carey, Patricia Barry, Jeanne Cooper, Conrad Nagel, Edgar Buchanan, Henry Daniell, John Emery, Dianne Foster, Whitney Blake, Dick York, Chubby Johnson, Lloyd Bochner, Tom Poston, Reginald Owen, Guy Stockwell, Phyllis Thaxter, Jeanette Nolan, Denver Pyle, Adam Williams, Edward Andrews, Jay C. Flippen, Fay Bainter, John Qualen, Irene Hervey, Hardie Albright, Ted de Corsia, Marc Lawrence, Audrey Dalton, James Gregory, Morgan Brittany, Willis Bouchey, Bert Remsen, Robert Middleton, Charles Aidman, William Schallert, John Mitchum, Pippa Scott, Ronald Howard, Guy Rolfe, Rita Conde, Peter Walker, James Griffith, K.T. Stevens, Berry Kroeger, Ray Teal, Edward Platt, Natalie Schafer, James Seay, Bess Flowers, Will Wright, Ned Glass, Ken Lynch, Frank Wilcox, Clem Bevans, Dan Tobin, Brendan Dillon, Frank DeKova, H.M. Wynant, Howard McNear, Hal Baylor, Percy Helton, Torin Thatcher, Peter Brocco, George Mitchell, Vaughn Taylor, Virginia Gregg, Robert Ellenstein, Stanley Adams, Norman Leavitt, Frances Morris, Kenner G. Kemp, Stuart Randall, Sean McClory, Carl Benton Reid, Harry Townes, Sam Gilman, Dan White, Harry 'Snub' Pollard, Sidney Blackmer, Steve Darrell, Burt Mustin, James Westerfield, June Walker, Gale Robbins, Alejandro Rey, Crahan Denton, Richard Hale, Jester Hairston, Dick Wessel, Nancy Valentine, Gil Perkins, Joe Ploski, Guy Wilkerson, Werner Klemperer, John Banner, Terry Burnham, William Mims, Kevin Hagen, Lane Bradford, Lin McCarthy, Dorothy Green, Myrna Fahey, Milton Parsons, Steve Brodie, Oscar Beregi Jr., Martin Kosleck, David McMahon, Sue Randall, Harry Ellerbe, John Abbott, George Nardelli, Edwin Rochelle, Ralph Brooks, Alex Montoya, Eve McVeagh, Larry J. Blake, Ralph Moody, Buddy Roosevelt, Fred Graham, Ann Shoemaker, Bethel Leslie, George DeNormand, Howard Freeman, Robert Osterloh, Ray Montgomery, John Zaremba, Peter Leeds, Booth Colman, Phil Arnold, Dayton Lummis, Sol Gorss, Richard Travis, Kermit Maynard, Skye Aubrey, Elizabeth Allen, Cynthia Pepper, Kasey Rogers, Larry Pennell, Anthony Caruso, Abraham Sofaer, Mickey Simpson, Russ Conway, John Baragrey, Walter Burke, Cyril Delevanti, Alan Carney, James Villiers, Helen Brown, Adele Mara, Britt Lomond, John Alvin, Norman Eshley, Eduardo Ciannelli, Argentina Brunetti, Antoinette Bower, Herbert Rudley, William Phipps, Pitt Herbert, Gertrude Astor, Walter Reed, Steve Mitchell, Fred Sherman, Robert Carricart, Jennie Linden, Mary Wimbush, Carol Kelly, Harry Wilson, Rex Holman, Gregory Gaye, Marjorie Bennett, Robert Sampson, Beverly Powers, Rachel Ames, Gloria Blondell, Marc Cavell, Fintan Meyler, Murvyn Vye, Frank Sully, Grandon Rhodes, Claire Carleton, Michael Burns, Russ Bender, Chalky Williams, Clancy Cooper, Jimmy Dime, Anthony Jochim, Jan Brooks, Brenda Forbes, Jon Lormer, Lila Kaye, Judson Pratt, Kathleen Crowley, Ross Elliott, Joe De Santis, Jack Lambert, Paul Hartman, James Greene, Theodore Marcuse, Philip Bourneuf, Esther Dale, Tom Nolan, Billy Beck, Bart Patton, Robert Colbert, Steven Terrell, Marcel Hillaire, Michael St. Clair, Linda Watkins, Edgar Dearing, Nesdon Booth, David McLean, Kenneth Haigh, Beverly Washburn, Constance Ford, Erika Peters, Sailor Vincent, Gage Clarke, Al Ruscio, Elaine Edwards, John Van Dreelen, Robert H. Harris, Isobel Elsom, Jocelyn Brando, Sondra Blake, Molly Weir, Ronald Long, Joe Maross, Murray Matheson, Murray Alper, Doris Lloyd, Scott Marlowe, Victor Sen Yung, Harry Bartell, Edmon Ryan, Terence de Marney, Pepe Hern, Noel Drayton, George Pelling, Lumsden Hare, William O'Connell, Reta Shaw, Suzanne Lloyd, Robin Hughes, Hank Brandt, Pamela Duncan, Alice Backes, Fifi D'Orsay, Ralph Clanton, Ken Renard, Than Wyenn, Paul Newlan, Eumenio Blanco, Rhodes Reason, Guy Mitchell, Nan Leslie, Noble 'Kid' Chissell, Monty O'Grady, Nelson Olmsted, Bartlett Robinson, Sandy Kenyon, Perry Ivins, Alan Caillou, Mary Grace Canfield, Paul Kruger, Jackie Joseph, Angela Greene, Olive Sturgess, Louis Mercier, Tracey Roberts, Keith Hitchcock, Franco Corsaro, Gordon Richards, Victor Romito, Steve Carruthers, John Fiedler, Rudy Germane, Paul Cristo, Mathew McCue, Ruth Warren, Ernest Sarracino, Robyn Millan, June Kenney, Nelson Welch, Sarah Marshall, Christine White, Hedley Mattingly, Gilchrist Stuart, Chet Stratton, Joan Tompkins, Yuki Shimoda, Art Lewis, Henry Corden, Warren Parker, Tommy Farrell, Charles Cooper, Amy Douglass, Pedro Regas, Anne Barton, Hayden Rorke, Lauren Gilbert, Jonathan Kidd, Katherine Squire, Paddi Edwards, Doro Merande, Henry Hunter, Sam Edwards, Alberto Monte, Jack Mullaney, Alberta Nelson, Roberto Contreras, Harriet E. MacGibbon, Joseph La Cava, Gina Gillespie, Keith McConnell, Mercedes Shirley, Jerry Rush, Duane Grey, Peter Camlin, Joyce Bulifant, Don Wilbanks, James Parnell, Paul Smith, Jean Engstrom, Natividad Vacío, Will J. White, Peter Forster, Seymour Green, Julian Burton, Paul Barselou, Hans Moebus, Audrey Swanson, Dick Cherney, Grace Albertson, Norman Stevans, Avis Scott, Joe Abdullah, Gregory Morton, Albert Cavens, Dorothy Neumann, Clegg Hoyt, Pamela Curran, George Ford, Sam Bagley, Jeffry Wickham, Pat McCaffrie, Jack Deery, David Kent, Kenneth Gibson, Gaylord Cavallaro, Fred Beir, Gordon Armitage, Bud Cokes, Danielle Aubry, Stuart Hall, Ottola Nesmith, Carolyn Kearney, Emma Palmese, Jack Mann, Mary Young, Barbara Perry, Ella Ethridge, Hallene Hill, Diki Lerner, A.J. Brown, Peter Howell, Richard Lupino, Madeleine Taylor Holmes, John Williams, Nina Varela, David Cross, Donald Elson, Richard Peel, Janet Lake, Gary Clarke, Robert Stevenson, Mort Sahl, Tandy Cronyn, Jo Van Fleet, William D. Gordon, Alexander Davion, Carroll Baker, Diana Millay, Henry Scott, Delores Wells, Charles La Torre, Bill Idelson, Francis Bethencourt, Jody Fair, David Whorf, Loie Bridge, Barry Gordon, Lillian Bronson, Christopher Seitz, Ted Roter (więcej)Produkcja:
William Frye, Maxwell ShaneMontaż:
Danford B. Greene, George Jay Nicholson, Howard Epstein, Richard Belding, Edward Haire, Danny B. Landres, Lee Huntington, Michael R. McAdamDźwięk:
David H. Moriarty, Melvin M. Metcalfe Sr., Frank H. Wilkinson, Earl Crain Sr., Corson Jowett, William H. Lynch, Vernon W. Kramer, Edwin J. Somers Jr., Lyle Cain, Earl Crain Jr., Robert R. Bertrand, Victor B. AppelScenografia:
John Meehan, George Patrick, John J. Lloyd, Frank Arrigo, Alexander A. Mayer, John McCarthy Jr., Julia Heron, Perry Murdock, George Milo, Hal Gausman, Frank Tuttle, Russell Kimball, Rudy Butler, Joseph Kish, Howard E. JohnsonCharakteryzacja:
Florence Bush, Jack Barron, Robert DawnRecenzje (1)
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