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20 June 1952 (France)
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In One Strange Night she met both LOVE ... and MURDER!
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Hard, withdrawn city cop Jim Wilson roughs up one too many suspects and is sent upstate to help investigate...
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Blind Woman
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Blindness
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Hot headed cop on shaky ground gets rocked
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Cast
(Complete credited cast)| Ida Lupino | ... | Mary Malden | |
| Robert Ryan | ... | Jim Wilson | |
| Ward Bond | ... | Walter Brent | |
| Charles Kemper | ... | Pop Daly | |
| Anthony Ross | ... | Pete Santos | |
| Ed Begley | ... | Capt. Brawley | |
| Ian Wolfe | ... | Sheriff Carrey | |
| Sumner Williams | ... | Danny Malden | |
| Gus Schilling | ... | Lucky | |
| Frank Ferguson | ... | Willows | |
| Cleo Moore | ... | Myrna Bowers | |
| Olive Carey | ... | Mrs. Brent | |
| Richard Irving | ... | Bernie Tucker | |
| Patricia Prest | ... | Julie Brent (as Pat Prest) |
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Dark Highway (USA) (working title)
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82 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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Crew or equipment visible: When Jim Wilson delivers Tucker to the police station and then walks away, shadows of people are cast on him (among them, someone wearing a hat), although in the next shot the street is totally empty.
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Woman in bar:
Hello Junior.
[with much leering]
Woman in bar: How's about buying me a drink?
[With continued leering, and now, tongue lolling]
Woman in bar: I'm all dry.
Jim Wilson: [Sternly] How old are you?
Woman in bar: [Continuing to leer] Old enough.
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[with much leering]
Woman in bar: How's about buying me a drink?
[With continued leering, and now, tongue lolling]
Woman in bar: I'm all dry.
Jim Wilson: [Sternly] How old are you?
Woman in bar: [Continuing to leer] Old enough.
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Featured in The Rules of Film Noir (2009) (TV)
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Nicolas Ray who directed a string of good films, most notably In a Lonely Place, Flying Leatjernecks and They live by Night and would become best known for Rebel Without a Cause directed this fine film-noir flick from 1952. He had taken the idea for the story based on the Gerald Butler novel Mad With Much Heart. Ray teamed with Albert Bezzerides for the screenplay who had written They Drive by Night, Desert Fury and Thieves Highway for the screen and would become best known in film for Kiss Me Deadly. He would become better known in television as the creator of the long running western series The Big Valley. Excellent photography in this film from cinematographer George E. Diskant. Robert Ryan is one of Hollywood's most underrated actors and in the staring role of a burnt out city cop on the road to redemption and awakening, turns in yet another great performance. Ida Lupino is another of my favorites and this time around plays a blind woman living alone in rural upstate Mew York. This is a film in two acts that are almost like tow separate films. Part one we find the Ryan character as a violent tough and over the edge cop who once was a popular high school football star and has become burned out in his job and dissatisfied with his lonely small apartment so he hates his job and his life away from work. The first half of the film is mostly night scenes. He is sent by his superiors to cool off in the frozen north and try to help solve a local murder. In the Ward Bond character as the Father of a murdered woman he meets someone even more angry and violent than he is. Bond delivers a strong supporting role performance. Rounding out the fine cast are Ed Begley, Charles Kemper and Anthony Ross. Famed, prolific composer Bernard Hermann provide the musical score. The story might be a little simplistic at times and predictable but it is still a strong film and I would give it an 8.5 out of 10.