Somewhere in the Night (film)
7 /10 1 Votes7
Country United States | 7/10 Genre Crime, Drama, Film-Noir Duration Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date June 1, 1946 (1946-06-01) (Los Angeles) Based on story byMarvin Borowsky Writer Howard Dimsdale (screenplay), Joseph L. Mankiewicz (screenplay), Lee Strasberg (adaptation), Marvin Borowsky (story) Film series 20th Century Fox Film Noir Cast (George W. Taylor), (Christy Smith), (Police Lt. Donald Kendall), (Mel Phillips), (Elizabeth Conroy), (Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle) Similar movies The Bourne Identity , The Bourne Supremacy , The Big Sleep , The Asphalt Jungle , Memento , Spider-Man 3 Tagline Somewhere in his mind! |
Somewhere in the night 1946 trailer
Somewhere in the Night is a 1946 film noir psychological thriller, directed and co-written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
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Plot

The film tells the tale of a man called George Taylor (John Hodiak), who returns home to the US from fighting in World War II. He is suffering from amnesia, and tries to track down his old identity, following a trail left behind by the mysterious Mr. Larry Cravat. He ends up stumbling into a murder mystery involving Nazi loot.
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Critical response

When the film was first released film critic Bosley Crowther gave the film a negative review, writing "Lloyd Nolan, Richard Conte, Josephine Hutchinson and several others are competent as varied pawns. Their performances are interesting; it's only too bad that they have such turgid and inconclusive things to do. After a while, the mad confusion of the story inspires a complete apathy."

More recently, film critic Dennis Schwartz praised the film, writing, "A dark moody noir tale about a marine who gets blown up by a grenade in the South Pacific during a skirmish in WW-II and survives, only to become an amnesia victim ... Mankiewicz does a nice job of creating the dark noir mood. The film is spiced up with comedy, excellent performances, plenty of suspense, plus a tense voice-over by John Ireland, and it manages to keep the pot boiling with a quintessential amnesiac story."




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