Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wrongly mistaken for a wanted kidnapper and arrested.
- small town
- kidnapping
- trial
- love
- money
- revenge
- film noir
- murder
- jail
- presumed dead
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Sylvia Sidney
Katherine Grant
Spencer Tracy
Joe Wilson
Walter Abel
District Attorney
Bruce Cabot
Kirby Dawson
- Edward Ellis — Sheriff
- Walter Brennan — Bugs Meyers
- Frank Albertson — Charlie Wilson
- George Walcott — Tom Wilson
- Arthur Stone — Durkin
- Morgan Wallace — Fred Garrett
- George Chandler — Milton Jackson
- Roger Gray — Stranger
- Edwin Maxwell — Vickery
- Howard Hickman — Governor
- Jonathan Hale — Defense Attorney
- Directed
- Fritz Lang
- Written
- Bartlett Cormack, Fritz Lang, Norman Krasna
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 255 ratings
- Studio
- 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.
