Frank Sinatra
John Baron
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Synopsis
A presidential train is due to stop in a small California town. Men claiming to be federal agents enter a family's hilltop home, whose view gives it strategic importance. The household discovers that the supposed security detail has a very different purpose.
Cast
DirectorsLewis Allen
Inspirations
Richard Sale adapted his story Active Duty into a fictional assassination thriller. The premise uses the practical visibility of a presidential train journey to concentrate a national threat inside one family's home.
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Availability checked on September 10, 2026.
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- Frank Sinatra — Photograph by Capitol Records , per a credit found in the 1959 edition of the International Celebrity Register at page 696 . No known source credits an individual photographer. · Public domain
- Sterling Hayden — Affiliated Magazines, New York / Photographer not credited · Public domain
- James Gleason — Trailer screenshot · Public domain
- Nancy Gates — film screenshot (United Artists) · Public domain
