Joseph L. Mankiewicz's "Somewhere in the Night" (1946) - feat. Lloyd Nolan & Sheldon Leonard скачать в хорошем качестве

Joseph L. Mankiewicz's "Somewhere in the Night" (1946) - feat. Lloyd Nolan & Sheldon Leonard

In the final weeks of World War II, wounded Marine, George W. Taylor (John Hodiak) awakens with amnesia in a U.S. military field hospital. Returning home to Los Angeles, Taylor finds that a bank account had been opened in his name by a friend. At a nightclub, The Cellar, Taylor searches for a friend, Cravat, and evades two thugs by hiding in singer Christy Smith's (Nancy Guild) dressing room. Later, Taylor is ambushed by the thugs, brutally interrogated by a gangster, Anzelmo (Fritz Kortner), to divulge Cravat's location, then deposited at Christy's apartment. Christy introduces Taylor to Mel Phillips (Richard Conte), owner of The Cellar, who arranges a meeting with Police Lieutenant Donald Kendall (Lloyd Nolan). Kendall reveals that years ago, a Nazi official who planned to defect sent $2 million in cash to the U.S. for safekeeping, but was executed before escaping Germany. Cravat, a private detective at the time, is alleged to have stolen the money and murdered its carrier. A note left on Christy's car leads Taylor to Terminal Dock and a fortune teller whom he recognizes as Anzelmo, who says the money's original carrier was a man named Steele who was murdered at the dock. The crime was witnessed by a dockworker named Michael Conroy (Houseley Stevenson), who saw a third man with Cravat and Steele. Anzelmo accuses Taylor of being the third man. Taylor tracks Conroy to a sanatorium, where he finds the witness dying of a stab wound. Conroy discloses that after the Steele murder, he found a suitcase, but he dies before he can name the suitcase's owner and Steele's killer. Taylor becomes wanted by the police for Conroy's murder. Taylor and Christy find the suitcase with the $2 million, and Taylor realizes that Christy is Cravat. After the Steele murder, he assumed a new identity and enlisted in the Marines to hide. Taylor and Christy are shot at, and take refuge in a soup kitchen. Taylor has the soup kitchen's manager take the suitcase to Kendall. Phillips admits he is Steele's murderer and clarifies what had happened. In 1942, Cravat took the money from Steele. Phillips found Steele empty-handed and shot him, but then deduced that Cravat had the money. Phillips also had Conroy killed and hired the gunman at the dock to follow Taylor. Kendall shoots Phillips to disarm him. Phillips is hospitalized and makes a full confession to the police, and Anzelmo's crew is arrested. Taylor and Christy start a new life together. A 1946 American Black & White film noir psychological thriller film directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, produced by Anderson Lawler, Screenplay by Mankiewicz and Howard Dimsdale, adaptation by Lee Strasberg, based on a short story by Marvin Borowsky, cinematography by Norbert Brodine, starring John Hodiak, Nancy Guild, Lloyd Nolan, Richard Conte, Josephine Hutchinson, Fritz Kortner, Margo Woode, Sheldon Leonard, Lou Nova, and Whit Bissel. Screen debut appearances of Nancy Guild and Polly Rose. Released by 20th Century-Fox. Harry Morgan appears as a bathhouse keeper, uncredited. Fritz Kortner, born in Vienna, Austria, was a famous actor of the expressionist school. He emigrated from Nazi Germany via London, New York N. Y. to Hollywood. His performance of Anzelmo is a good example of expressionistic acting, especially in the crystal ball scene. Nancy Gertrude Guild (1925-1999) was an American film actress of the 1940s and 1950s. She appeared in this film, "The Brasher Doubloon" (1947), and the comedy "Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man" (1951). Guild was a freshman at the University of Arizona when a photographer from Life magazine noticed her. After her picture was published in a spread on campus fashions, Guild received screen tests at five Hollywood studios, and she was signed by 20th Century Fox to a seven-year contract. Guild never achieved much fame at 20th Century Fox, and eventually stopped acting. Guild married actor Charles Russell in 1947, and divorced in 1949. In 1951 she married producer Ernest H. Martin, and divorced in 1975. In 1983, Guild married photojournalist John Bryson, and divorced in 1995. W. Somerset Maugham rendered writing services on the adaptation, uncredited. In Los Angeles, in Chinatown during the 1940's, Chinese restaurants did not serve coffee, they served only tea. "Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60 minute radio adaptation of the movie on March 3, 1947 with John Hodiak reprising his film role. Soundtrack music: "Paducah" - Music by Harry Warren, played when George removes the postcard and replaces it with a matchbook "In the Middle of Nowhere" - Music by Jimmy McHugh, Lyrics by Harold Adamson, Performed by Nancy Guild This obscure, atmospheric gem from the height of the film noir era was only the third film for director Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and he already shows signs of being a master story teller. This restrained but moody, crackerjack Post War crime drama won't sweep you off your feet or blow you away, but it's enjoyable and worth seeing.