Nightfall
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There is money missing from a bank job, an attractive model, an insurance investigator, and two extremely dangerous thugs. James Vanning (Aldo Ray) portrays an innocent man on the run, being pursued by the criminals who stupidly misplaced their take from the crime and think he has it or knows where it is hidden. Add model Marie Gardner (Anne Bancroft) who crossed paths with nice guy Vanning, while he is on the run. This all adds up to a thriller wherein the viewer is drawn in... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Nightfall:

Aldo Ray
Anne Bancroft
Brian Keith
James Gregory
Jocelyn Brando
Frank Albertson

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There is money missing from a bank job, an attractive model, an insurance investigator, and two extremely dangerous thugs. James Vanning (Aldo Ray) portrays an innocent man on the run, being pursued by the criminals who stupidly misplaced their take from the crime and think he has it or knows where it is hidden. Add model Marie Gardner (Anne Bancroft) who crossed paths with nice guy Vanning, while he is on the run. This all adds up to a thriller wherein the viewer is drawn into the story and becomes part of the drama. When Marie says "things that really happen are difficult to explain" it captures the theme of this film. A nice girl helps a nice guy, who is innocent and is drawn into the drama. As tension mounts she says: "I am always meeting the wrong man, and it leads to doomed relationships." Marie inadvertently leads Vanning into the hands of the villains. However, she is a pseudo-femme fatale, innocently involved in the intrigue and, like the viewer, is gradually drawn into the plot. Beside one of the more chilling murder scenes for that era, the film has a three part flashback, which takes the viewer from a cityscape and menacing oil wells to the snow-covered plains of Wyoming and back to the streets of Hollywood. The interplay of high contrast images makes it worth seeing, but the story keeps the viewer engaged.

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Village Voice - 8/10 by J. HobermanNot only a nifty late noir but a model of economical filmmaking--well-sketched atmosphere, deft characterizations, and a 78-minute running time.
Classic Film and Television - 7/10 by Michael E. GrostUneven thriller with some fine set pieces and beautiful photography.
Parallax View - 6/10 by Sean AxmakerCrisply directed, scripted with gems of hardboiled lines and superbly paced, it's a film of darkness and light that ends up in the snowy mountains of Wyoming...
User Review - 8/10 by Trent RJacques Tourneur directing Anne Bancroft & Aldo Ray in a Stirling Silliphant script adapted from David Goodis, (Dark Passage, Shoot The Piano Player, Street of No Return). Ray is cast well as a plain-spoken type, Bancroft is kicking Method ass, and Brian Keith is excellent as Aldo's gunsel nemesis. The plot makes intelligent use of coincidence, and the exceptional cinematography reinforces this noir aspect. The contrasting movement and flashbacks between urban and rural settings, an oil derrick interrogation and the wintry finale's device spectacularly display a hostile world both natural and man-made.
User Review - 8/10 by Yogesh RSome of the early scenes felt a bit "off" (the stuff with the oil derricks was severely underlit), but the standoff between the two crooks at the cabin was magnetic, and the Hitchcock-ian sequence at the fashion show was pretty suspenseful.
User Review - 8/10 by Brad GJacques Tourneur directing Anne Bancroft & Aldo Ray in a Stirling Silliphant script adapted from David Goodis, (Dark Passage, Shoot The Piano Player, Street of No Return). Ray is cast well as a plain-spoken type, Bancroft is kicking Method ass, and Brian Keith is excellent as Aldo's gunsel nemesis. The plot makes intelligent use of coincidence, and the exceptional cinematography reinforces this noir aspect. The contrasting movement and flashbacks between urban and rural settings, an oil derrick interrogation and the wintry finale's device spectacularly display a hostile world both natural and man-made.
User Review - 8/10 by Scott RA fun noir that turns an "artist" into a wanted felon. Keith from "The Parent Trap" was good, and to have an unusual character in Gregory playing an Insurance Investigator made for an interesting flick. Then to top it off with some great settings in Wyoming, and I'm sold. I always like Wyoming. Bancroft's character seemed to stupid to give everything up for a whim. Then to have them as an Artist dating a Model, seemed even more far fetched when they barely knew one another. But the whole showdown in the end with the snow plow was pretty gutsy for the time, props for that.
User Review - 8/10 by Ilsa LAldo Ray is a man on the run who convinces Anne Bancroft that he's not a killer but a man in the wrong place at the wrong time. Great tale filled with desperate characters, well worth a rental. Recommended.
User Review - 6/10 by Josè MJacques Torneur maestro del blanco y negro.
User Review - 6/10 by Rachel BFilm noir thriller from director Jacques Tourneur is unfortunately not on the level of some of his other noir classics. A strong story (based on a Dave Goodis novel) is hampered by a slow pace and too many talky scenes. Aldo Ray is a bit too luggish in the lead, but Anne Bancroft shines as his love interest in an improbable love story. Ruby Bond steals his scenes as a gleefully sadistic crook. Tourneur frames the gritty urban streets and wide open Wyoming countryside with equal panache, although the shadowy cinematography gets too dark sometimes.

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