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The Long Wait

"Three Thrill-Hungry Dames Played Me For A Sucker - NOW, IT'S MY TURN"

5.9(21)19541h 34m1

Soon after thumbing a ride from a truck driver, Johnny McBride is badly burned and suffers from complete amnesia when the vehicle he’s riding in blows a tire and goes over an embankment in a fiery blaze. McBride later receives a tip from an acquaintance that a photo of him was placed prominently in the window of a photography studio in a town called Lyncastle, so Johnny immediately leaves for the burg in the hopes that something there will jog his memory.

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English
  • film noir
  • b movie

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    • TheatricalNR26 May 1954

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The Long Wait was released on 26 May 1954.

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    John Chard

    1/21/2017

    7/10

    The Lyncastle Lasso. The Long Wait is directed by Victor Saville and adapted to screenplay by Alan Green and Lesser Samuels from the Mickey Spillane novel. It stars Anthony Quinn, Charles Coburn, Gene Evans, Peggie Castle, Mary Ellen Kay and Shirley Patterson. Music is by Mario Castelnuovo- Tedesco and cinematography by Franz Planer. Johnny McBride (Quinn) is a amnesiac who manages to get back to his home town …

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