Eager to reinforce his burgeoning dramatic reputation, Frank Sinatra seized the role of the psychologically damaged war veteran hired by unseen forces to shoot the president during a stopover in a sleepy Californian town called Suddenly.
“I’m not an actor,” he snaps while menacing his hostages (the birth scars on his neck clearly visible to make him more sinister), but a withering look of contempt when his courage is questioned and a glaring close-up directly into the camera suggest otherwise.
John Baron
Frank Sinatra Tod Shaw
Sterling Hayden Pop Benson
James Gleason Ellen Benson
Nancy Gates Pidge Benson
Kim Charney Jud
James Lilburn Haggerty
Clark Howat
Director
Lewis Allen
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