Never Love a Stranger

Never Love a Stranger
File:Neverloveastrangerposter.jpg Film poster
Directed by	Robert Stevens
Produced by	Richard Day Peter Gettinger Harold Robbins
Written by	Richard Day Harold Robbins
Starring	John Drew Barrymore Steve McQueen Robert Bray
Music by	Raymond Scott
Cinematography	Lee Garmes
Edited by	Sidney Katz
Distributed by	Allied Artists Pictures
Release dates	June 22, 1958
Running time	91 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Never Love A Stranger is a 1958 crime and gangster film that is based on Harold Robbins' 1948 debut novel with the same title. The film was shot in black and white starring John Drew Barrymore and Robert Bray, and featuring a young Steve McQueen.

The noir film is about Frankie Kane (Barrymore) who is brought up in a Catholic orphanage. He befriends a Jewish law student named Martin Cabell (McQueen) and becomes romantically involved with Cabell's sister Julie (Milan). Kane learns later that he is also Jewish, and when told he will be removed from the orphanage and moved to a Jewish home he runs away and turns to a life of crime. Later, after joining a major crime syndicate, he reconnects with Julie, finally deciding to join Martin, now a District Attorney in shutting down the syndicate.

Main cast

• John Drew Barrymore as Frankie Kane
• Lita Milan as Julie, Maid to the Cabell Family
• Steve McQueen as Martin Cabell
• Robert Bray as "Silk" Fennelli
• Salem Ludwig as Moishe Moscowitz
• R.G. Armstrong as Flix
• Douglas Rodgers as Brother Bernard
• Felice Orlandi as Bert
• Augusta Merighi as Mrs. Cozzolina
• Abe Simon as "Fats" Crown
• Vitina Marcus as Frances Kane

External links

• Never Love a Stranger at IMDb