Clash by Night

Pros: Nicholas Musuraca's cinematography, not-bad editing
Cons: miscast, cliched, turgid

For Barbara Stanwyck's hundredth birthday (July 16th), TCM ran 24 hours of movies in which she starred (and she was a star for a long time across an array of genres). The one I watched was "Clash by Night," directed by Fritz Lang (1952). It is best known ...

Pros: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Paul Douglas, Nicholas Musuraca cinematography, Fritz Lang direction
Cons: More of a dark turbulent love story than film noir

Clash By Night (1952) “Home is where you come to when you run out of places.” Mae Set in the sleepy fishing village of Monterrey, California, Clash By Night is the story of people thrown into desperation by the return of a ...