Poverty Row auteur Lew Landers’ lurid programmer makes its NOIR CITY debut! A singularly dyspeptic Charles McGraw leads a group of steeplejacks (Alan Hale Jr., Steve Brodie, and Peter Whitney) who get thrown off kilter by the relationship between a drifter (John Ericson) and hanger-on Mary “the Babe” Thompson, played by statuesque Mari Blanchard. Murder, lust, rivalry, and overlapping double crosses spin through this campy, low-budget film like a high- speed blender! Not on Streaming, DVD, nor Blu-ray.
Presented as a DCP.
Music Box Theatre screens films of all genres and from every era of cinema, both new releases and repertory. These films may sometimes contain upsetting, outdated, or offensive material. While we aim to introduce many of our screenings, we do not always provide warnings about potentially triggering content within the films we screen. We encourage our patrons to research the film before they attend using trailers, reviews, or content information found on Common Sense Media, IMDb and DoesTheDogDie.com.
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NOIR CITY: Chicago 2026