House of Strangers
1949
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After a World War II injury, George Taylor's (John Hodiak) memory of his life is fuzzy, to say the least. In an effort to reverse his amnesia, he tracks down alleged murderer and thief Larry ...
Somewhere in the Night (1948) This has all the gloomy, alienating, nighttime elements of the best film noirs, and it's smack in the central Post War best of it. It even has a director, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, known for handling dramatic, emotional situations with both delicacy and power.
With John Hodiak, Nancy Guild, Lloyd Nolan, Richard Conte. George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, while trying to track down his old identity, he stumbles onto a 3-year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- 1946-06-21
Somewhere in the Night Reviews. Joseph L. Mankiewicz's nervous nightmare (made in his first year of directing) isn't an all-hallowed member of the noir canon -- it's fairly slick, and...
Phillips suggests that a police friend, Lt. Donald Kendall, might be able to help George and arranges a meeting with him. Kendall reveals that Cravat was a private detective and, at the time of his disappearance, was in possession of $2,000,000 that had been smuggled out of Nazi Germany.
One of the better and better-funded amnesia noirs, Joseph Mankiewicz’s Somewhere in the Night stars John Hodiak as a self-ignorant war veteran who’s adopted the name George Taylor and soon learns he’s the link to an important man named Larry Cravat. The plot is dense and elliptical, but it’s hard not to interpret the film as an extended ...
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Somewhere in the Night (1946) - Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, produced by Anderson Lawler, Darryl F. Zanuck and starring John Hodiak, Nancy Guild, Lloyd Nolan, Richard Conte, Josephine Hutchinson, Fritz Kortner, Margo Woode, Sheldon Leonard,and more...
