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Plot
In the pulsating heart of New York, the plot unfurls as Dave Burke, a former cop with a tarnished badge, meticulously draws up a daring plan to rob a small-town bank. He turns to two unlikely accomplices: Earle Slater, a white ex-convict burdened by his failures, and Johnny Ingram, a black jazz musician with a knack for gambling and a mounting debt.
Slater, financially propped up by his steadfast girlfriend Lorry, grapples with the moral implications of the heist, his pride pricked by his inability to provide. On the other hand, Ingram, a compulsive gambler, finds himself trapped in a vicious cycle of debt, with the ruthless shark Bacco breathing down his neck, threatening his ex-wife and his cherished daughter. Despite their initial reluctance, the desperate lure of money and the insidious pressure from Burke and Ingram's relentless creditors force them into this precarious alliance.
Yet, beneath the surface of their shared ambition, festers a volatile tension. Slater, a man scarred by prejudice, harbors a corrosive racism towards Ingram, his distrust brewing a potentially explosive discord within their fragile alliance. As they hurtle towards their ill-fated heist, the trio's unity is tested, tension mounts, and their personal demons threaten to unravel their meticulously constructed plan.
'Odds Against Tomorrow' is a charged narrative of desperation, prejudice, and the lengths men will go to escape their circumstances, set against the gritty backdrop of 1950s New York.
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Odds Against Tomorrow is a crime movie featuring Harry Belafonte and directed by Robert Wise.
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