A locksmith gets caught up in a bank robbery.A locksmith gets caught up in a bank robbery.A locksmith gets caught up in a bank robbery.
Berry Kroeger
- Willis Trent
- (as Berry Kroger)
Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez
- Pedro
- (as Gonzales Gonzales)
Fred Aldrich
- Bank Guard
- (uncredited)
David Leonard
- Mr. Grover - Locksmith
- (uncredited)
John Mitchum
- Andy
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Burt Kennedy
- Frank Gruber
- Tedd Pierce(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThere really was a Grover's Lock and Key on Santa Monica Blvd in Hollywood. Apparently, it was easier to use the existing storefront than create a phony one for the movie.
- GoofsAt about 68 minutes, when Pedro opens a glass door to leave the bowling alley, the cameraman and a director are clearly reflected in the glass door.
- Crazy creditsVeteran heavy Berry Kroeger had his name misspelled in the main credits as "Berry Kroger."
- ConnectionsReferences You Bet Your Life (1950)
- SoundtracksLet The Chips Fall Where They May
by 'By' Dunham (as By Dunham) and Henry Vars
Sung by Vivianne Lloyd (uncredited)
Featured review
Bowling for deposit boxes.
Adapted by Burt Kennedy from the Frank Gruber novel, The Lock and the Key, Man in the Vault is a minor 50s crime flick that has somehow been lumped into the film noir encyclopedias. Andrew V. McLaglen directs and William Campbell, Karen Sharpe, Anita Ekberg and Berry Kroeger star. Story has Campbell as a locksmith who gets coerced into a deposit box theft just as Sharpe turns his head romantically.
Amazingly, nothing much happens, there's a lot of talking and pouting, Campbell's teddy-boy quiff always holds court, while Kroeger tries to eat all the indoor scenery. William H. Clothier is utterly wasted on photography, only really getting to use his skills when the story enters out onto the real L.A. locations; which are actually the film's only saving grace. OK! The deposit box sequence has a modicum of suspense, the mystery element as Campbell tries to fathom out what's going on also works, but come the weak and cop-out finale you may well wish you had done the gardening instead. 5/10
Amazingly, nothing much happens, there's a lot of talking and pouting, Campbell's teddy-boy quiff always holds court, while Kroeger tries to eat all the indoor scenery. William H. Clothier is utterly wasted on photography, only really getting to use his skills when the story enters out onto the real L.A. locations; which are actually the film's only saving grace. OK! The deposit box sequence has a modicum of suspense, the mystery element as Campbell tries to fathom out what's going on also works, but come the weak and cop-out finale you may well wish you had done the gardening instead. 5/10
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- hitchcockthelegend
- Apr 17, 2015
Details
- Runtime1 hour 13 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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