Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
- dying and death
- depression
- individual
- suicide
- jealousy
- husband wife relationship
- southern usa
- mississippi river
- plantation
- patriarch
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Jack Carson — Gooper
- Madeleine Sherwood — Mae
- Vaughn Taylor — Deacon Davis
- Larry Gates — Dr. Baugh
- Brian Corcoran — Boy
- Zelda Cleaver — Servant
- Robert 'Rusty' Stevens — Sonny Pollitt
- Hugh Corcoran — Buster Pollitt
- Directed
- Richard Brooks
- Written
- Richard Brooks, James Poe
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 847 ratings
- Studio
- Avon Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
