Out of the Fog

Out of the Fog

1941 · 85 min · EN · NR · 6.5 (25 votes)
Dir. Anatole Litvak · Starring Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Thomas Mitchell, Eddie Albert, George Tobias, John Qualen · Music Heinz Roemheld

It's lightning and thunder! It's Lupino and Garfield!

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A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.

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A smoky, rain-slicked noir where desperation simmers beneath the surface. It feels like a grim, inevitable descent into darkness, punctuated by the cold, hard reality of dockside life and the moral compromises it demands.

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