Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.
- new york city
- roommates
- pimp
- death sentence
- painter
- femme fatale
- film noir
- murder
- scam
- electric chair
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Edward G. Robinson
Christopher Cross
Joan Bennett
Katherine 'Kitty' March
Dan Duryea
Johnny Prince
Margaret Lindsay
Millie Ray
- Jess Barker — David Janeway
- Rosalind Ivan — Adele Cross
- Charles Kemper — Homer Higgins
- Anita Sharp-Bolster — Laura Michaels
- Samuel S. Hinds — Charles Pringle
- Vladimir Sokoloff — Pop LeJon
- Arthur Loft — Dellarowe
- Russell Hicks — J.J. Hogarth
- Richard Abbott — Critic at Gallery (uncredited)
- Rodney Bell — Barney (uncredited)
- Richard Cramer — Principal Keeper (uncredited)
- Directed
- Fritz Lang
- Written
- Dudley Nichols
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 448 ratings
- Studio
- Diana Productions, Universal 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.
