Never Love a Stranger

Never Love a Stranger is a 1958 crime and gangster film based on Harold Robbins' 1948 debut novel of the same name, starring John Drew Barrymore and Robert Bray, and featuring Steve McQueen. Plot Frankie Kane is brought up in a Catholic orphanage. He befriends a Jewish law student named Martin Cabell and becomes romantically involved with Cabell's maid, Julie. Kane later learns 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 Original novel Robbins' novel was published in 1948. It became a best seller.