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House of Numbers is a american film of genre Noir directed by Russell Rouse released in USA on 12 september 1957 with Jack Palance

House of Numbers (1957)

House of Numbers
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Released in USA 12 september 1957
Length 1h30
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Noir,    Crime
Rating63% 3.188653.188653.188653.188653.18865

House of Numbers is a 1957 classic American film noir, based on author Jack Finney's 1957 novel of the same name, starring Jack Palance and Barbara Lang.

In the film, Palance plays two similar-looking brothers: Bill and his younger brother Arnie Judlow. Bill is a good citizen, trying to help his ex-professional boxer brother, Arnie, convicted of murder, escape from San Quentin State Prison to return to Arnie's wife, Ruth, played by Lang.

The movie was filmed on location in CinemaScope at San Quentin and set in San Quentin and Mill Valley, California, then the home city of author Finney.

Synopsis

Arnie Judlow (Jack Palance) is an imprisoned gangster. During a prison visit, Bill Judlow, his law-abiding brother, switches places, allowing himself to be incarcerated as the real criminal walks free. Ruth Judlow (Barbara Lang), wife of one of the Judlow boys, wavers in her loyalties.

Actors

Jack Palance

(Arnie Judlow / Bill Judlow)
Barbara Lang

(Mrs. Ruth Judlow)
Harold J. Stone

(Henry Nova - Prison Guard)
Edward Platt

(The Warden)
Timothy Carey

(Frenchy (uncredited))
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