It's too bad THE LONG NIGHT couldn't have been a short one.
This is a disastrously dull movie with HENRY FONDA and BARBARA BEL GEDDES both playing implausibly motivated people who fall in love at first sight. Fonda plays another one of his "everyman" roles but is more of a lost puppy than usual in this depressingly dark noir directed without his usual style by Anatole Litvak.
The first twenty-five minutes had me wanting to switch the movie off, it was so poorly constructed. I found it impossible to watch the whole thing.
If any kind of film noir is your thing, you may stick around to see the whole movie. I found it a frustrating waste of time and certainly not a film that Fonda or Bel Geddes should be proud to have on their resume.
This is a disastrously dull movie with HENRY FONDA and BARBARA BEL GEDDES both playing implausibly motivated people who fall in love at first sight. Fonda plays another one of his "everyman" roles but is more of a lost puppy than usual in this depressingly dark noir directed without his usual style by Anatole Litvak.
The first twenty-five minutes had me wanting to switch the movie off, it was so poorly constructed. I found it impossible to watch the whole thing.
If any kind of film noir is your thing, you may stick around to see the whole movie. I found it a frustrating waste of time and certainly not a film that Fonda or Bel Geddes should be proud to have on their resume.