Nightfall

Nightfall

1956 · 78 min · EN · NR · 6.8 (76 votes)
Dir. Jacques Tourneur · Starring Aldo Ray, Anne Bancroft, Brian Keith, James Gregory, Jocelyn Brando, Frank Albertson · Music George Duning

THE BLACK BAG... with $350,000 in loot! THE BLACK DRESS... with a beautiful pick-up girl inside! THE BLACK NIGHT... made for lovers... and killers!

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An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

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A bleak, rain-slicked urban labyrinth where shadows hide betrayal. It feels like a desperate race against time, a man trapped by circumstance and a world that’s already judged him. The air is thick with fatalism and smoky cynicism.

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