Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Age rating
- U
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
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 police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
- jealousy
- obsession
- advertising expert
- shotgun
- detective
- investigation
- mistaken identity
- romance
- film noir
- murder
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Dana Andrews
Det. Lt. Mark McPherson
Gene Tierney
Laura Hunt
Clifton Webb
Waldo Lydecker
Vincent Price
Shelby Carpenter
- Judith Anderson — Ann Treadwell
- Dorothy Adams — Laura's Maid Bessie Clary (uncredited)
- Wally Albright — Newsboy (uncredited)
- Bobby Barber — Newsboy (uncredited)
- Harry Carter — Party Guest (uncredited)
- Lane Chandler — Detective (uncredited)
- Dorothy Christy — Woman (uncredited)
- James Conaty — Party Guest (uncredited)
- Ralph Dunn — Fred Callahan (uncredited)
- Jean Fenwick — Woman (uncredited)
- Clyde Fillmore — Owner of Bullitt & Co. Ad Agency (uncredited)
- Directed
- Otto Preminger
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 919 ratings
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox
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.
