Saturday, 19 February 2022

So Dark the Night (1946 Joseph H. Lewis)

An esteemed Parisian detective takes a holiday in rural France, falls for a girl, then murders begin. It builds to a literally incredible climax but is made in a most interestingly cinematic way, Lewis always doing something creative. It's not as good as Gun Crazy or The Big Combo but nevertheless well worth seeing.

Didn't recognise a single person. Steven Geray, Micheline Cheirel, Eugene Borden, Ann Codee, Egon Brecher, Emil Rameau. Crisply photographed by Burnett Guffey, music by Hugo Friedhofer, made at Columbia.





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