The Long Wait

1954 PG-13 1h 34m

5.9 / 10 21

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5.9/10

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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.

Director Victor Saville

Writers

Mickey Spillane Alan Green Lesser Samuels

Stars

Anthony Quinn Charles Coburn Gene Evans

Carol Shay (as Shawn Smith)

Woman in Gambling House (uncredited)

Crime Drama

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John Chard 21 Jan 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 ba...