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House of Numbers (1957 film)

House of Numbers
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Theatrical release poster
Directed by Russell Rouse
Produced by Charles Schnee
Screenplay by Don Mankiewicz
Russell Rouse
Based on the novel House of Numbers
by Jack Finney
Starring Jack Palance
Barbara Lang
Music by André Previn
Cinematography George J. Folsey
Edited by John McSweeney Jr.
Production
company
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • September 12, 1957 (1957-09-12) (United States)
Running time
90 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $1,008,000
Box office $1.1 million

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.

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.

According to MGM records the film earned $500,000 in the US and Canada and $600,000 elsewhere, resulting in a loss of $378,000.


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