Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Age rating
- NR
- 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
After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.
- new york city
- narration
- film noir
- murder
- docudrama
- semi-documentary
- procedural
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Barry Fitzgerald
Lt. Dan Muldoon
Howard Duff
Frank Niles
Dorothy Hart
Ruth Morrison
Don Taylor
Jimmy Halloran
- Frank Conroy — Captain Donahue
- Ted de Corsia — Willy Garzah
- House Jameson — Dr. Lawrence Stoneman
- Anne Sargent — Mrs. Halloran
- Adelaide Klein — Mrs. Batory
- Grover Burgess — Mr. Batory
- Tom Pedi — Detective Perelli
- Enid Markey — Mrs. Hylton
- Mark Hellinger — Narrator (voice)
- Jean Adair — Little Old Lady (Uncredited)
- Celia Adler — Dress Shop Proprietor (Uncredited)
- Directed
- Jules Dassin
- Written
- Albert Maltz, Malvin Wald
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 285 ratings
- Studio
- 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.
