So Dark the Night
One of the great delights of the B-film is that rare chance to see a favorite character actor elevated to a starring role, like menacing tough guy Charles McGraw’s transformation into a bulletproof cop in ARMORED CAR ROBBERY, or Hungarian émigré Steven Geray, the suave maître d’ and waiter in countless pictures, now cast as a Parisian detective whose engagement to a small town innkeeper’s daughter is shattered by her gruesome murder. Determined to catch the killer, Geray embarks on a strange and twisting path, interrogating subjects while his criminal prey remains always one step away. In this stylish follow-up to his breakthrough hit, the Gothic plot-twister MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS, Joseph H. Lewis makes clear his wild talent for the unexpected stories and bold mise-en-scène that give his films the giddy intensity so beloved by true cinephiles. Regularly rediscovered as a cult classic, SO DARK THE NIGHT drew the attention of Columbia executives who began to unsuccessfully groom Lewis for bigger-budget assignments that he would steadfastly resist out of reluctance to surrender the creative freedom he found on the lower rungs of the hierarchical studio ladder. (Haden Guest)
- Steven Geray - Jourdonnais
- Egon Brecher
- Micheline Cheirel
- Eigene Borden
- Ann Codee
- Helen Freeman
- Brother Theodore
- Screenplay Martin Berkeley
- Dwight V. Babcock
- Aubrey Wisberg
- Burnett Guffey
- Hugo Friedhofer