Let No Man Write My Epitaph

Nov 10, 1960

1h 45m

★ 6.1

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Overview

Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him to pursue his piano-playing talent in hopes that it will bring him a better life. Nellie's neighbors, like the alcoholic ex-lawyer who secretly loves her, help her in keeping Nick away from Louie, the resident drug dealer. But a chance meeting between Nick and Louie could change things forever.

Genres

Drama

Crime

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

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Cast

Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan

Burl Ives

Nellie Romano

Shelley Winters

Nick Romano

James Darren

Barbara Holloway

Jean Seberg

Louie Ramponi

Ricardo Montalban

Flora

Ella Fitzgerald

Max

Rodolfo Acosta

Grant Holloway

Philip Ober

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