Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
The story
A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
- daughter
- infidelity
- husband wife relationship
- restaurant
- snob
- business woman
- promise
- spoiled child
- film noir
- murder
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Ann Blyth — Veda Pierce Forrester
- Bruce Bennett — Albert 'Bert' Pierce
- Lee Patrick — Maggie Biederhof
- Moroni Olsen — Inspector Peterson
- Veda Ann Borg — Miriam Ellis
- Jo Ann Marlowe — Kay Pierce
- Butterfly McQueen — Lottie (uncredited)
- Bill Alcorn — Soldier (uncredited)
- Betty Alexander — Party Guest (uncredited)
- Ramsay Ames — Party Guest (uncredited)
- George Anderson — Peterson's Assistant (uncredited)
- Directed
- Michael Curtiz
- Written
- Ranald MacDougall
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 457 ratings
- Studio
- Warner Bros. 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.
