--- title: 'Tight Spot (1955)' type: 'film' director: 'Phil Karlson' released: '1955-01-01' runtime_minutes: 97 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/tight-spot-1955' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048724/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Tight Spot (1955) 1955 · 97 min · Drama · United States ## Synopsis 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. ## Credits - **Director:** [Phil Karlson](https://cinepixo.com/people/phil-karlson) - **Screenplay:** [William Bowers](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-bowers) - **Original Music Composer:** [George Duning](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-duning) - **Producer:** [Lewis J. Rachmil](https://cinepixo.com/people/lewis-j-rachmil) - **Director of Photography:** [Burnett Guffey](https://cinepixo.com/people/burnett-guffey) ## Cast - [Brian Keith](https://cinepixo.com/people/brian-keith) - [Lucy Marlow](https://cinepixo.com/people/lucy-marlow) - [Lorne Greene](https://cinepixo.com/people/lorne-greene) - [Peter Leeds](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-leeds) - [Edward G. Robinson](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-g-robinson) - [Eve McVeagh](https://cinepixo.com/people/eve-mcveagh) - [Ginger Rogers](https://cinepixo.com/people/ginger-rogers) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/tight-spot-1955 Film facts: Wikidata (Q534000); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.