- Somewhere in the Night
Infobox Film | name = Somewhere in the Night
caption =cover of the 2005 DVD release
director =Joseph L. Mankiewicz
producer = Anderson Lawler
writer =
starring =John Hodiak Nancy Guild Lloyd Nolan
music =David Buttolph
cinematography =
editing =
distributor =Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
released =June 12 , 1946 (U.S. release)
runtime = 110 min
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = 0038965"Somewhere in the Night" is a
psychological thriller , directed byJoseph L. Mankiewicz , and released in 1946. It was Mankiewicz's first film for20th Century Fox , and his third film overall. It tells the tale of a man called George Taylor (John Hodiak ), who returns home to the US from fighting in World War II. He is suffering fromamnesia , and tries to track down his old identity, following a trail left behind by the mysterious Mr Larry Cravat. He ends up stumbling into a murder mystery involving Nazi loot. The complicated storyline is typical offilm noir .Cast
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John Hodiak as George W. Taylor
*Nancy Guild as Christy Smith
*Lloyd Nolan as Police Lt. Donald Kendall
*Richard Conte as Mel Phillips
*Josephine Hutchinson as Elizabeth Conroy
*Fritz Kortner as Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
*Sheldon Leonard as Sam
*Whit Bissell as John the Bartender
*Harry Morgan as Bath attendant
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