Directed by:
Jacques TourneurScreenplay:
Stirling SilliphantCinematography:
Burnett GuffeyComposer:
George DuningCast:
Aldo Ray, Brian Keith, Anne Bancroft, Jocelyn Brando, James Gregory, Frank Albertson, Gene Roth, Rudy Bond, Bess Flowers, George Cisar, Monty Ash (more)Plots(1)
Nightfall is the story of Jim Vanning (Aldo Ray), an innocent man wrongly accused of murder. On the same night he has a chance encounter in a bar with glamorous model Marie (Anne Bancroft), the hoods he s spent the past year running from catch up with him, determined to recover the money they believe he stole from them. Pursued by both the hoods and law enforcement, Vanning and Marie go on the lam, leading to a desperate chase that takes them from the streets of Los Angeles to the snowy peaks of Wyoming. (Arrow Films)
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A melancholic film noir in the snow. I don’t consider it to be a B movie. More like an excellent, straightforward non-genre representative of its style with an unusual hero. And the camera... Tourneur simply understands black and white film more than anybody else. The only reproach I have has to be addressed at Anne Bancroft’s awful hairstyle; she shouldn’t have gone out in public with an atrocity like that on her head.
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