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THE LONG NIGHT (1947)

Verenigde Staten
Misdaad / Film-Noir
101 minuten

geregisseerd door Anatole Litvak
met Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes en Vincent Price

Een blinde man loopt een woning binnen en hij hoort dat er boven enkele schoten gelost worden. Vervolgens valt het slachtoffer van de tarp en blijft dood op de grond liggen. Hierna volgt een verhaal in flashback, over een veteraan die gedesillusioneerd terugkeert van de oorlog, om vervolgens te bemerken dat zijn vriendin een affaire met een andere man heeft. Deze man blijkt bovendien een sadistische bruut...

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User Rating:     6.9/10   354 votes 

Studio: Kino Video

DVD Release Date: July 18, 2000


Description:
An exciting rediscovery from the studio vaults, The Long Night is an emotionally gripping, visually dynamic film noir, in which Henry Fonda, at the peak of his career, delivers an unforgettable performance. Presented in an intricate web of flashbacks, The Long Night follows the fractured thoughts of Joe Adams (Henry Fonda), a factory worker pinned inside his third-floor apartment after gunning down a mysterious, dapper gentleman (Vincent Price). Joe's memories, often containing flashbacks within flashbacks, reconstruct the events leading up to the shooting, revealing his romance with a quiet young girl (Barbara Bel Geddes), his less-romantic involvement with a worn-out showgirl (Ann Dvorak) and the varied twists of fate which drove Joe to murder.

In staging this remake of Marcel Carne's Le Jour Se Leve (France, 1939), the producers of The Long Night imported not only the story, but the look of poetic realism that made the original so haunting. At once dismal and magical, the world of The Long Night was unlike anything Hollywood had yet imagined, and laid the groundwork for the dark and gritty (but highly stylized) imagery that became the trademark of film noir.


Format: NTSC

DVD Size: 3.48 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 97 minutes

Type: Black and White

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

Sound (main feature): English DD2.0

Subtitles: none



DISC FEATURES:

# 2 Comparison clips between La Jour Se Leve and The Long Night.
# Visual essay on the production design.
# Photo Gallery.



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