Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
George Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor, has to postpone a vacation with his wife - again - when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence that he is the killer.
- new york city
- based on novel or book
- clock
- magazine
- film noir
- murder
- framed for a crime
- publisher
- crime fiction writer
- sundial
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Ray Milland
George Stroud
Charles Laughton
Earl Janoth
Maureen O'Sullivan
Georgette Stroud
George Macready
Steve Hagen
- Rita Johnson — Pauline York
- Elsa Lanchester — Louise Patterson
- Harold Vermilyea — Don Klausmeyer
- Dan Tobin — Roy Cordette
- Harry Morgan — Bill Womack
- Richard Webb — Nat Sperling
- Elaine Riley — Lily Gold
- Luis van Rooten — Edwin Orlin
- Lloyd Corrigan — McKinley
- Frank Orth — Burt
- Margaret Field — Second Secretary
- Directed
- John Farrow
- Written
- Jonathan Latimer
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 186 ratings
- Studio
- Paramount 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.
