I Walk Alone

I Walk Alone is a 1947 film noir released by Paramount Pictures starring Burt Lancaster and Lizabeth Scott, with a supporting cast featuring Wendell Corey, Kirk Douglas, and Kristine Miller.

Frankie and Noll parted ways with an agreement that if one of them should be caught he will still receive an equal share of their combined business after serving his prison sentence.

Noll informs Kay that he intends to marry wealthy socialite Alexis Richardson in order to ensure the Regency's success among the carriage trade.

Corral (1957) with Lancaster as Wyatt Earp and Douglas as Doc Holliday, The Devil's Disciple (1959) with Laurence Olivier, The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) with George C. Scott and John Merivale, Seven Days in May (1964) with Fredric March and Ava Gardner, and Tough Guys (1986).

Lizbeth Scott's vocals on the original song "Don't Call It Love", by Ned Washington and Allie Wrubel, was dubbed by an uncredited Trudy Stevens.

Kay requests the first of the trio's leader Jimmy, after Frankie indicates he prefers older songs, one of the building hints that he's been away.

Crowther found Kirk Douglas' performance "fairly effective" but panned the other leads: "Burt Lancaster plays the would-be 'muscler' with the blank-faced aplomb of Tarzan.

"[5] The Chicago Tribune was not impressed: "A dreary dissertation on the art of the double cross in the gang world, this film inches along through numerous complications, and when the happy lovers finally disappear in the mist, they leave the spectators in a bit of fog....Lavish settings and strenuous work by most members of the cast succeed only in giving the film a complete air of unreality and occasionally producing giggles from the audience with scenes intended to elicit gasps.

"[6] James Agee, writing in The Nation, opined that the film should be made to "walk alone, tinkle a little bell, and cry, 'Unclean, unclean.