Summary:
Zachary Scott plays Max Thursday, an alcoholic ex-police detective working as a bouncer at a sleazy rooming house owned by Smitty (Mary Boland), a likeable, earthy old lady. Thursday's former wife, Georgia (Faye Emerson), shows up one night, while her ex-husband is in an alcoholic stupor, to tell him that their three-year-old son Jeff is missing, taken by her brot... Full Summary >>

Cast:
Zachary Scott - (Max Thursday)
Faye Emerson - (Georgia)
Mary Boland - (Smitty)
Sam Levene - (Capt. Mark Tonetti)
J. Edward Bromberg - (Otto Varkas)
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Review:
Guilty Bystander is based on the 1949 book of the same title by Wade Miller (a pseudonym for two authors, Bill Miller and Robert Wade), in which they introduced the character of police detective Max Thursday, a private detective who subsequently appeared in five more novels. Guilty Bystander is a strangely compelling, very atmosph... Continue >>
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