Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
- dreams
- window
- scissors
- professor
- painting
- college
- barbed wire
- film noir
- clue
- district attorney
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Edward G. Robinson
Professor Richard Wanley
Joan Bennett
Alice Reed
Raymond Massey
Dist. Attorney Frank Lalor
Edmund Breon
Dr. Michael Barkstane
- Dan Duryea — Heidt / Tim, the Doorman
- Thomas E. Jackson — Inspector Jackson
- Dorothy Peterson — Mrs. Wanley
- Robert Blake — Dickie Wanley
- Arthur Loft — Claude Mazard / Frank Howard / Charlie the Hatcheck Man
- Frank Dawson — Collins, the Steward
- Iris Adrian — Streetwalker (uncredited)
- Brandon Beach — Man at Club (uncredited)
- Paul Bradley — Man at Club (uncredited)
- Don Brodie — Onlooker at Gallery (uncredited)
- Claire Carleton — Blonde (uncredited)
- Directed
- Fritz Lang
- Written
- Nunnally Johnson
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 388 ratings
- Studio
- International Pictures, Christie Corporation
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.
