Wenig Chancen für morgen (1959)

Wenig Chancen für morgen: Directed by Robert Wise. With Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters, Ed Begley. Dave Burke hires two very different debt-burdened men for a bank robbery. Suspicion and prejudice threaten to end their partnership.

“Except for its patent anti-racist message at the end, this is a top-notch caper picture. Harry Belafonte as an in-debt horse player, Robert Ryan as a southerner with a temper living off a suitably blowzy Shelly Winters, Ed Begley as a bitter ex-cop–all come together in a tightly planned bank hold-up in a small NY town upstate. The black-and-white photography makes you wonder why they ever used color for anything other than musicals and cartoons.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBelafonteu0026#39;s acting never came up to his singing, but he does all right here. Ryan was a consummate actor, and Begley is perfectly cast. Gloria Grahame has a very small part but was never sexier.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe soundtrack, by the Modern Jazz Quartet, may be better than the picture itself (I listen to it all the time), but thatu0026#39;s not to slight this gritty little crime flick.”