Odds Against Tomorrow

<span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: arboria, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Disgraced ex-NYC cop Dave Burke (Ed Begley) masterminds a piece-of-cake bank robbery, but to pull it off, he requires the cooperation of two dangerously mismatched cohorts: hot-headed war veteran Earle Slater (Robert Ryan) and gambling-addict jazzman Johnny Ingram (Harry Belafonte). Their racist antagonism threatens to thwart a seemingly foolproof plan. </span><em style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: arboria, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Odds Against Tomorrow</em><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: arboria, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> is an all-time classic heist thriller—and much more.</span><br style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: arboria, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><br style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: arboria, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: arboria, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Silent producer Belafonte hired blacklisted screenwriter Abraham Polonsky (</span><em style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: arboria, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Force of Evil</em><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: arboria, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">) to adapt William P. McGivern’s (</span><em style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: arboria, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">The Big Heat</em><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: arboria, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">) novel, specifically to subvert the sanctimony of </span><em style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: arboria, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">The Defiant Ones</em><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: arboria, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> (1958), a “feel good” movie about racism. Robert Wise’s direction is as fresh and expressive as anything being done by the French New Wave of the period, and the score by John Lewis’s Modern Jazz Quartet is innovative and exhilarating. The film features vivid supporting performances by Shelley Winters, Kim Hamilton, and Gloria Grahame.</span>CrimePT1H36MNR2026-11-14USen
Harry Belafonte
Robert Ryan
Shelley Winters
Ed Begley
Gloria Grahame
Kim Hamilton
Robert Wise
Robert Wise
Odds Against Tomorrow"Odds Against Tomorrow"

Showtimes

November 14, 8:00 pm

Ambler Theater