The Big Night

The Big Night

Infobox Film
name = The Big Night


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director = Joseph Losey
producer =
writer = Stanley Ellin (story)
narrator =
starring = John Barrymore Jr
Preston Foster
Joan Lorring
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cinematography =
editing =
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released = 1951
runtime = 75 min.
country = U.S.
language = English
budget =
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followed_by =
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imdb_id = 0043340:"For the 1996 American film, see Big Night"."The Big Night" is a 1951 black-and-white film drama starring John Barrymore Jr. The film, directed by Joseph Losey, is considered to be film noir.

Reception

A 1952 New York Times review by Bosley Crowther panned the drama. "Not only is the story presumptuous and contrived, without any clarification of character or theme, but it is directed by Joseph Losey in a provokingly ostentatious style and it is played by a cast of professionals as though it were an exercise at dramatic school. Preston Foster is funereal as the father, Howard St. John is insolent as the man who beats him up. Philip Bourneuf is bleary as a bibulous professor and Joan Lorring is sugary as a benevolent girl. Apparently everybody was concerned with theatrical effects and forgot all about a story with point and intelligence." [http://movies2.nytimes.com/mem/movies/review.html?_r=1&res=9B01E7D9123BE23BBC4851DFB5668389649EDE&oref=slogin]

Cast

*John Drew Barrymore as George La Main (as John Barrymore Jr.)
*Preston Foster as Andy La Main
*Joan Lorring as Marion Rostina
*Howard St. John as Al Judge
*Dorothy Comingore as Julie Rostina

References

External links

*imdb title|id=0043340


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