[Full-Film] Somewhere In The Night (1946)

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Comment by deedee gauzot on February 3, 2013 at 5:03am

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Somewhere in the Night is a psychological thriller, co-written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and released in 1946. It was Mankiewicz's first film for 20th Century Fox, and his third film overall.

 

Comment by deedee gauzot on February 3, 2013 at 5:02am

Synopsis

 

The film tells the tale of a man called George Taylor (John Hodiak), who returns home to the US from fighting in World War II. He is suffering from amnesia, and tries to track down his old identity, following a trail left behind by the mysterious Mr Larry Cravat. He ends up stumbling into a murder mystery involving Nazi loot. The complicated storyline is typical of film noir.

 

Cast

 

• John Hodiak as George W. Taylor
• Nancy Guild as Christy Smith
• Lloyd Nolan as Police Lt. Donald Kendall
• Richard Conte as Mel Phillips
• Josephine Hutchinson as Elizabeth Conroy
• Fritz Kortner as Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
• Sheldon Leonard as Sam
• Whit Bissell as John the Bartender
• Harry Morgan as Bath attendant
• Lou Nova as Hubert
• Margo Woode as Phyllis

Production notes

 

Twentieth Century-Fox purchased Marvin Borowsky's original, unpublished story "The Lonely Journey" and his accompanying screenplay in December 1944 for $11,000. Somewhere in the Night was Nancy Guild's first film.

 

Production Dates: 21 Nov 1945–24 Jan 1946. A radio version of the film, starring John Hodiak and Lynn Bari, was broadcast on Lux Radio Theatre on March 3, 1947.