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Police surround the apartment of apparent murderer Joe Adams, who refuses to surrender although escape appears impossible. During the siege, Joe reflects on the circumstances that led him to... Read allPolice surround the apartment of apparent murderer Joe Adams, who refuses to surrender although escape appears impossible. During the siege, Joe reflects on the circumstances that led him to this situation.Police surround the apartment of apparent murderer Joe Adams, who refuses to surrender although escape appears impossible. During the siege, Joe reflects on the circumstances that led him to this situation.
Melinda Byron
- Peggy
- (as Patty King)
Davis Roberts
- Freddie
- (as Robert A. Davis)
Fred Aldrich
- Ticket Taker
- (uncredited)
Murray Alper
- Mac - Bartender
- (uncredited)
Bobby Barber
- Nightclub Patron
- (uncredited)
Vangie Beilby
- Audience Member
- (uncredited)
Brooks Benedict
- Audience Member
- (uncredited)
Gladys Blake
- Millie - Saloon Waitress
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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Did you know
- TriviaFilm debut of Barbara Bel Geddes. She was signed to a seven-year contract with RKO after this film. Director Anatole Litvak cast her after seeing her on Broadway as the female lead in "Deep Are the Roots", which played at the Fulton Theatre for 477 performances beginning 26 September 1945.
- GoofsWhen Joe from inside his apartment shoots at the cops who are standing outside his door; it leaves bullet holes in the door. But on a following cut after speaking with the little girl and going back into his apartment; there are no bullet holes on the interior side of the door.
- Quotes
Maximilian: [to Jo-Ann] You have sharp nails like a little animal. Maybe that's what I like about you.
- Crazy creditsOpening card: "...the night is long That never finds the day..." William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act IV, Scene III
- ConnectionsFeatured in Henry Fonda: The Man and His Movies (1982)
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Both interesting and underwhelming
Henry Fonda, Vincent Price and the film noir genre are reasons enough to see any film, and The Long Night did show a lot of promise. I didn't find that the The Long Night quite delivered enough, but it certainly has a lot of good things. It's very well made for starters, one of the most beautifully shot and visually atmospheric film noirs of the 1940s in my opinion. Dmitri Tiomkin's music is far from his best work with a lot of it sounding like re-arranged Beethoven(you decide whether you consider that a compliment, but it is very haunting and fits the film very well. But the high point of The Long Night was the acting. Henry Fonda gives an intelligently sensitive lead performance, and Barbara Bel Geddes- managing to look younger than she was- in her film debut is very touching as the love interest. Ann Dvorak is deliciously cynical, and Vincent Price is effortlessly ominous and smarmy as an utter sleaze-bag of a character(people will argue that he was at odds at the rest of the film but I rest the blame on the writing not Price). The Long Night does have faults though, the characters are not fleshed out enough to make me care for them(I would have cared more for Joe if the "when he's in jeopardy" scenario had been made less emotionally hollow and senseless), while the script is of rather rambling quality with Bel Geddes' final speech particularly contrived-sounding. The Long Night also lacks momentum pace-wise- well the final twenty minutes picks up a bit but comes too late- and the constant switching back from past to present and vice versa is enough to cause confusion. There are even some ideas like with Joe and Charlene's involvement with one another that are shoehorned in but not explained satisfactorily. So in conclusion, interesting for the cast and how it was made, but with stronger script and story execution it would've been less underwhelming than it turned out to be. 6/10 Bethany Cox
- TheLittleSongbird
- Jan 23, 2013
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- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- A Time to Kill
- Filming locations
- Youngstown, Ohio, USA(archive footage)
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,000,000
- Runtime1 hour 41 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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