Never Love a Stranger

Never Love A Stranger is a 1958 crime and gangster film that is based on Harold Robbins' 1948 debut novel with the same title. The film was shot in black and white starring John Drew Barrymore and Robert Bray, and featuring a young Steve McQueen.

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The noir film is about Frankie Kane (Barrymore) who is brought up in a Catholic orphanage. He befriends a Jewish law student named Martin Cabell (McQueen) and becomes romantically involved with Cabell's sister Julie (Lita Milan). Kane learns later that he is also Jewish, and when told he will be removed from the orphanage and moved to a Jewish home he runs away and turns to a life of crime. Later, after joining a major crime syndicate, he reconnects with Julie, finally deciding to join Martin, now a District Attorney, in shutting down the syndicate.

Main cast

John Drew Barrymore as Frankie Kane

Lita Milan as Julie, Maid to the Cabell Family

Steve McQueen as Martin Cabell

Robert Bray as "Silk" Fennelli

Salem Ludwig as Moishe Moscowitz

R.G. Armstrong as Flix

Douglas Rodgers as Brother Bernard

Felice Orlandi as Bert

Augusta Merighi as Mrs. Cozzolina

Abe Simon as "Fats" Crown

Vitina Marcus as Frances Kane