Tight Spot

Tight Spot
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Phil Karlson
Screenplay by	William Bowers
Based on	Dead Pigeon 1953 play by Lenard Kantor[1]
Produced by	Lewis J. Rachmil
Starring	Ginger Rogers Edward G. Robinson Brian Keith
Cinematography	Burnett Guffey
Edited by	Viola Lawrence
Music by	George Duning
Color process	Black and white
Production company	Columbia Pictures
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	March 19, 1955 (1955-03-19)
Running time	96 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Tight Spot is a 1955 American film noir crime film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson and Brian Keith. The story was inspired by then prominent U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver's strong-arm tactics in coercing Virginia Hill to testify in the infamous Bugsy Siegel organized crime prosecution. The Democratic senator from Tennessee attracted national attention with the new medium of televised investigation hearings on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. The next year saw Kefauver as the Vice Presidential nominee with former Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson II for the Democrats in the 1956 election against Republican incumbent 34th president Dwight D. Eisenhower and his running mate Richard M. Nixon, who were reelected.