Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 87 min
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
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 pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forced to reinterpret his own past.
- love of one's life
- anonymous letter
- ignorance
- author
- duel
- vienna
- austria
- illegitimate son
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Joan Fontaine
Lisa Berndle
Louis Jourdan
Stefan Brand
Mady Christians
Frau Berndle
Marcel Journet
Johann Stauffer
- Art Smith — John
- Carol Yorke — Marie
- Howard Freeman — Herr Kastner
- John Good — Lt. Leopold von Kaltnegger
- Leo B. Pessin — Stefan Jr.
- Erskine Sanford — Porter
- Otto Waldis — Concierge
- Sonja Bryden — Frau Spitzer
- Patricia Alphin — Pretty Girl (uncredited)
- Harry Anderson — Minor Role (uncredited)
- Edit Angold — Middle-Aged Woman (uncredited)
- Directed
- Max Ophüls
- Written
- Howard Koch
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 345 ratings
- Studio
- Universal Pictures, Rampart Productions, Universal International 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.
