Strangers in the Night

1944

Action / Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Mystery

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 53% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 53%
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 929 929

noir small town film noir veteran

Plot summary

In this Gothic tale, a returning WW2 vet goes looking for a small-town girl whom he knows only from letters. It’s the pretext for an off-beat treatment of sexual frustration morphing into a dangerous delusion, and eventually murder.

Director

Anthony Mann Photo
Anthony Mann

Top cast

Anne O'Neal Photo
Anne O'Neal as Nurse Thompson
Virginia Grey Photo
Virginia Grey as Dr. Leslie Ross
William Terry Photo
William Terry as Sgt. Johnny Meadows
Helene Thimig Photo
Helene Thimig as Mrs. Hilda Blake
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515.65 MB
988*720
English 2.0
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23.976 fps
12 hr 56 min
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957.07 MB
1472*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
12 hr 56 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by greenbudgie 7 / 10

'Rosemary's Mother'

A seriously wounded Marine is given the will to live again through letters from a girl he's never met. He arranges to go and visit her when he's home on leave. Aboard a train to where Rosemary lives he mistakenly thinks for a moment that their paths have physically crossed before he arrives. A woman sitting opposite is carrying a copy of 'A Shropshire Lad' book of poems by Alfred Edward Houseman. That is the very book that had brought about the correspondence between the marine and Rosemary.The woman on the train is Dr Ross who has just become the doctor for Rosemary's household. As Johnny the Marine is about to explain his mistake to Dr Ross the train crashes and many of the passengers are in need of her medical treatment. This brings these two strangers close and romance would have seemed to have blossomed if it wasn't Johnny's love for Rosemary who had saved his life through those letters. But Rosemary is not at home when Johnny finally gets to his destination.Rosemary's house is on a remote clifftop. There lives Rosemary's mother and her nervous companion Ivy Miller. Rosemary becomes a mystery and her disabled mother is shown to be the kind who may live in a fantasy world for some reason. Tension builds as 'Rosemary's mother' becomes capable of endangering others in her bid to keep the romance between her daughter and Johnny alive. Not one moment is lost in this deft telling of a poor deranged woman who needs to imagine an alternative reality for herself.
Reviewed by misstoes 7 / 10

Toxic Femininity

This nifty little noir-gothic B picture throws everything but a "dark and stormy night" at you. WW2 combat, a train wreck, a foreign-accented scheming recluse, cliff top mansion, poisonings, booby traps and terrified female retainer. The dramatic action turns on what has happened to the mysterious pen pal daughter Rosemary? Returning Marine Johnny wants to know. The new lady doctor (Virginia Grey) is baptized by fire during a convenient train derailment just outside town, which occurs at the very moment when said Marine is about to tell the "Lady Doctor" about Rosemary. (Yes Director Anthony Mann moves the plot along quickly.) The wreck is dramatically presented then promptly forgotten about, as the marine-a combination of Van Johnson and Don DeFore- knocks on the cliff top manse door looking for Rosemary. Eventually we see a "Rebecca"-style boudoir, purportedly that of Rosemary.This is not a criticism. The performances are very good, the sets well done, Virginia Grey is luminous as usual, Helene Thimig is very creepy in a proto-Dark Shadows role. It's an easy hour of entertainment.
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