Directed by:
Anatole LitvakScreenplay:
John WexleyCinematography:
Sol PolitoComposer:
Dimitri TiomkinCast:
Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price, Ann Dvorak, Howard Freeman, Elisha Cook Jr., Queenie Smith, Charles McGraw, Ellen Corby, Richard Reeves (more)Plots(1)
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 an emotionally calloused showgirl (Ann Dvorak), and the varied twists of fate that drove Joe to murder. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Henry Fonda
USA
Best movies:
12 Angry Men (1957)
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Fail-Safe (1964)
Barbara Bel Geddes
USA
Best movies:
Vertigo (1958)
Blood on the Moon (1948)
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Vincent Price
USA
Best movies:
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Ann Dvorak
USA
Best movies:
Scarface (1932)
'G' Men (1935)
The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
Howard Freeman
USA
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Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
The Killers (1946)
Elisha Cook Jr.
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
The Killing (1956)
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Queenie Smith
USA
Best movies:
Caged (1950)
Show Boat (1936)
The Day of the Locust (1975)
Charles McGraw
USA
Best movies:
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
In Cold Blood (1967)
Ellen Corby
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Vertigo (1958)
Sabrina (1954)
Richard Reeves
USA
Best movies:
The Killing (1956)
Tickle Me (1965)
Unconquered (1947)
Will Wright
USA
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Scarlet Street (1945)
Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Byron Foulger
USA
Best movies:
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Edison, the Man (1940)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Pat Flaherty
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Melinda Byron
Best movies:
The Red Pony (1949)
Ten North Frederick (1958)
Loving You (1957)
Mary Gordon
UK
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
It Started with Eve (1941)
After the Thin Man (1936)
Ray Teal
USA
Best movies:
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Ace in the Hole (1951)
Moroni Olsen
USA
Best movies:
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Dick Wessel
USA
Best movies:
Fury (1936)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Scarlet Street (1945)
Max Wagner
Mexico
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Ida Moore
USA
Best movies:
The Country Girl (1954)
To Each His Own (1946)
Johnny Belinda (1948)