Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- 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
The peaceful life of a gas station owner is disrupted when a man from his past arrives in town and forces him to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.
- small town
- gas station
- suppressed past
- gangster
- detective
- deaf-mute
- briefcase
- deception
- femme fatale
- partner
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Robert Mitchum
Jeff Bailey / Jeff Markham
Jane Greer
Kathie Moffat
Kirk Douglas
Whit Sterling
Paul Valentine
Joe Stephanos
- Virginia Huston — Ann Miller
- Rhonda Fleming — Meta Carson
- Richard Webb — Jim
- Steve Brodie — Jack Fisher
- Dickie Moore — The Kid
- Ken Niles — Leonard Eels
- Mary Field — Marny (uncredited)
- Oliver Blake — Tillotson (uncredited)
- Harry Hayden — Canby Miller (uncredited)
- Theresa Harris — Eunice Leonard (uncredited)
- Frank Wilcox — Sheriff (uncredited)
- Directed
- Jacques Tourneur
- Written
- Daniel Mainwaring
Production
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 · 650 ratings
- Studio
- RKO Radio 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.
