Saturday | August 13, 2011 9:15 pm

Somewhere in the Night

Screening on Film

Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
US, 1946, 35mm, black & white, 110 min.
Print source: Criterion

A taut film noir gem, Somewhere In the Night follows an amnesiac veteran Marine through nighttime Los Angeles in search of his forgotten past and the origins of a briefcase full of Nazi plunder. John Hodiak is rarely as expressive as the disoriented soldier trying to find his way through the criminal underworld. Mankiewicz's original screenplay weaves a wonderfully disorienting spell with its labyrinthine plot and its announcement of memory as one of Mankiewicz's recurrent themes. – HG

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The Complete Joseph L. Mankiewicz

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João César Monteiro, Poet-Provocateur

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Marathon '77 All-Night Movie Marathon

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Marie Antoinette and Friends, Three Films by Sofia Coppola

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Nostalgia, A Harvard Undergraduate Cinematheque Program

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The Human Condition

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