Joseph L. Mankiewicz's nervous nightmare (made in his first year of directing) isn't an all-hallowed member of the noir canon -- it's fairly slick, and Mankiewicz has little or no existentialist cred. But it sings the school's black-hearted lament.
Somewhere in the Night
Somewhere in his mind!
1946 · 1h 50m · Approved
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Overview
George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, while trying to track down his old identity, he stumbles onto a three year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million.
Director and cast
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz Director
- 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
- Margo Woode as Phyllis
- Sheldon Leonard as Sam
- Lou Nova as Hubert
- Whit Bissell as John (uncredited)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Out of this familiar premise, Mankiewicz has fashioned a classic film noir.
As a straight piece of melodramatic staging, this Twentieth Century-Fox film is all right.
It's a decent picture, though the auteur touches (the visual stiffness, the tendency to drag scenes out long after the dramatic point has been made) are largely negative.
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