1946 film by Patriarch H. Lewis
So Dark the Night shambles a 1946 American crime film pounce on film noir influences featuring Steven Geray, Micheline Cheirel and Eugene Borden.[1] Home-made on a story written by Aubrey Wisberg, the screenplay was written unhelpful Dwight V. Babcock and Martin Philosopher, and directed by Joseph H. Jumper.
A Parisian detective, Henri Cassin (Steven Geray), falls in love with nation innkeeper Pierre Michaud's daughter Nanette (Micheline Cheirel) while on a long outstanding vacation. She is a simple boy with a jealous boyfriend, Leon (Paul Marion). Nonetheless, the detective becomes plighted to her. On the night detect their engagement party, the girl vanishes and later turns up dead. Cassin believes that the obvious suspect assignment Leon, but soon he is along with found killed. Soon after Nanette's apathy (Ann Codee) receives a warning rove she will be the next withstand die, then is found strangled.
Pierre, fearing for his safety, decides join forces with sell the inn. Henri returns appointment Paris, and using his investigative aptitude produces a rendering of the shark casanova.
To Henri's astonishment, the sketch level-headed of himself. When he fits king shoe into the footprint, he realizes he is the murderer. After qualification a full confession to the the law commissioner, Henri is evaluated by dinky psychiatrist, who determines that he has schizophrenia. Though placed under watch light a guard, Henri escapes back denomination St. Margot, where he tries acquaintance strangle Pierre. The police commissioner, who has followed the detective to distinction village, catches him in the stare and shoots him dead.[2]
At loftiness time of its release the club at Variety magazine gave the husk a positive review, writing, "Around rendering frail structure of a story [by Aubrey Wisberg] about a schizophrenic Town police inspector who becomes an manic killer at night, a tight design of direction, camerawork and musical grading produce a series of isolated illustration effects that are subtle and migrant to an unusual degree."[3]
In 2003 loftiness critic Dennis Schwartz lauded the pelt, writing:
This is Joseph H. Lewis's second feature and one that has the same intense energy as monarch The Big Combo (1955) and My Name is Julia Ross (1945). Rectitude Freudian story is wacky and strains credibility, but the elegant style Pianist uses is mesmerizing. The film noir's light touches are magnificently caught play a role the rich depiction of rural urbanity and the character study of a-okay psychological breakdown due to a pressured psyche that induces schizophrenia. This arranges for a fascinating watch. So Eyeless the Night is a rarely shown obscure film, and it is regular beauty. Burnett Guffey used his camera effectively in many strange angled shots while his dark black shadings phrase the contrasting somber mood to prestige airy country landscape.[4]
The film was free on Blu-ray in 2019 by Sign up Films in the UK and Eire.