The Big Night (1951)
1951 · Feature film · 75 min · dir. Joseph Losey
Love! Hate! Murder!
- Drama
- film noir
Synopsis
The Big Night is a 1951 American film noir directed by Joseph Losey and starring Preston Foster, Joan Lorring and John Drew Barrymore in his first starring role. The film is based on a script written by Joseph Losey and Stanley Ellin, based on Ellin's 1948 novel Dreadful Summit. Hugo Butler and Ring Lardner Jr. also contributed to the screenplay, but both men were admitted communists, and following Lardner's conviction for contempt of Congress, they were uncredited when the film was first…
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Details
- Director
- Joseph Losey
- Writer
- Ring Lardner, Jr.
- Composer
- Lyn Murray
- Cinematography
- Hal Mohr
- Studio
- Philip A. Waxman Productions Inc.
- Released
- 1951-12-07
- Running time
- 75 minutes
Cast & crew
Joseph Losey Director
Emile Meyer
Howland Chamberlain
Philip Bourneuf
Howard St. John
John Drew Barrymore
Myron Healey
Preston Foster
Dorothy Comingore
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · A Boy’s Journey into Adulthood · The Spanman · 2022-08-19
Acting certainly runs in the Barrymore family. John Barrymore Jr. kills it in this one. A young man named George, finds out about himself, his father and love in this confusing world he’s part of. Joan Lorring was very good in her role as Marion. Al Judge, the creepy and crooked sports writer and fight fixer, becomes the center of the film until George discovers the truth about his father and a lot more.
