An amnesiac finally learns his true identity...as a murder suspect. And he doesn't even know whether he is guilty...An amnesiac finally learns his true identity...as a murder suspect. And he doesn't even know whether he is guilty...An amnesiac finally learns his true identity...as a murder suspect. And he doesn't even know whether he is guilty...
Shirley Patterson
- Carol Shay
- (as Shawn Smith)
Bruno VeSota
- Eddie Packman
- (as Bruno Ve Sota)
Jack Chefe
- Bank Employee
- (uncredited)
John Cliff
- Heckling Workman
- (uncredited)
James Conaty
- Man Leaving Hotel
- (uncredited)
Edgar Dearing
- Foreman
- (uncredited)
Sayre Dearing
- Croupier
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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Did you know
- Quotes
Johnny McBride: Nobody knows where I come from, not even me.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane (1998)
- SoundtracksOnce
Written by Harold Spina and Bob Russell
Performed by Dolores Donlon (uncredited) and Anthony Quinn (uncredited)
[Played over opening credits]
Featured review
Based on a Mickey Spillane story
Mickey Spillane's "The Long Wait" stars Anthony Quinn, Charles Coburn, Peggie Castle, and Gene Evans.
Quinn plays Johnny McBride, who survives a horrible car crash but winds up with burned hands and amnesia. A clue leads him back to his home town where he, unbenownst to him, is wanted for the murder of the DA. And there seem to be people who don't want to ask too many questions. However, he learns one thing - a woman he knew back then, Vera West, who has left town, can tell him what actually happened.
Johnny also learns that rumor has it that Vera, to escape the bad guys, has had complete plastic surgery and changed her name - but she's back in town with her new identity. Johnny meets several women, but which one of them if any, is Vera?
Johnny proves himself a chick magnet as he becomes involved with each of these women, who work for a man named Servo - but Servo takes orders from someone else.
Unfortunately for the viewer, the potential Veras looked alike and it was hard to tell them apart. They weren't familiar enough to this viewer to be able to tell them apart.
The film has an amazing scene where a bound Peggie Castle crawls up to a tied-up Johnny, supposedly for a final kiss, but to get his gun. Stylish pulp for sure.
This is a real Mike Hammer type of story - dames, brawls, and misogyny.
Quinn plays Johnny McBride, who survives a horrible car crash but winds up with burned hands and amnesia. A clue leads him back to his home town where he, unbenownst to him, is wanted for the murder of the DA. And there seem to be people who don't want to ask too many questions. However, he learns one thing - a woman he knew back then, Vera West, who has left town, can tell him what actually happened.
Johnny also learns that rumor has it that Vera, to escape the bad guys, has had complete plastic surgery and changed her name - but she's back in town with her new identity. Johnny meets several women, but which one of them if any, is Vera?
Johnny proves himself a chick magnet as he becomes involved with each of these women, who work for a man named Servo - but Servo takes orders from someone else.
Unfortunately for the viewer, the potential Veras looked alike and it was hard to tell them apart. They weren't familiar enough to this viewer to be able to tell them apart.
The film has an amazing scene where a bound Peggie Castle crawls up to a tied-up Johnny, supposedly for a final kiss, but to get his gun. Stylish pulp for sure.
This is a real Mike Hammer type of story - dames, brawls, and misogyny.
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,500,000
- Runtime1 hour 34 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.75 : 1
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