Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Age rating
- NR
- 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.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.
- beach
- screenwriter
- assault
- film noir
- murder
- hollywood
- black and white
- fear
- agent
- murder investigation
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Humphrey Bogart
Dixon Steele
Gloria Grahame
Laurel Gray
Frank Lovejoy
Brub Nicolai
Carl Benton Reid
Capt. Lochner
- Art Smith — Mel Lippman
- Jeff Donnell — Sylvia Nicolai
- Martha Stewart — Mildred Atkinson
- Robert Warwick — Charlie Waterman
- Morris Ankrum — Lloyd Barnes
- William Ching — Ted Barton
- Steven Geray — Paul
- Hadda Brooks — Singer
- Alix Talton — Frances Randolph (uncredited)
- James Arness — Young Detective (uncredited)
- Pat Barton — Second Hat Check Girl (uncredited)
- Directed
- Nicholas Ray
- Written
- Dorothy B. Hughes, Andrew Solt
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 669 ratings
- Studio
- Santana Pictures Corporation, Columbia Pictures
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.
