The Long Night

"COMING AT YOU ... in a blast of terrific drama!"

May 28 1947 Approved 1h 41m
Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

City police surround a building, attempting to capture a suspected murderer. The suspect knows there is no escape but refuses to give in.

Plot

The credits fade onto a blind man tapping his way down the sidewalk,he enters a dingy boarding house and hears a shot fired in one of the upstairs bedrooms. A door opens from audience POV. A man tumbles out of the door and falls, slides and slithers down two flights of stairs and is dead when he hits the bottom. Then follows nearly 100 minutes of flashback and flashbacks-within-flashbacks about a veteran returing from the war, tired and disillusioned, only to find that he girl he loves has lied to him about her relationship with another man, and that man is sadistic, boastful and tauntful.

Written by

John Wexley, Jacques Viot

Directed by

Anatole Litvak

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Select Productions (III)

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
2,327
Average Rating
6.5 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA