During WW2, an army nurse on R&R in San Francisco has a premonition about witnessing a murder attempt against a G-man by Nazi agents.During WW2, an army nurse on R&R in San Francisco has a premonition about witnessing a murder attempt against a G-man by Nazi agents.During WW2, an army nurse on R&R in San Francisco has a premonition about witnessing a murder attempt against a G-man by Nazi agents.
- Woman at Accident
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- Pedestrian
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- Chinese Boy
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- Detective
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- Accident Witness
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- Kolb - Henchman
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- Hilary Gale
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- Lieutenant Commander
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- Police Desk Sergeant
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- Thomas - Butler
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- Chang Yong
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- Mr. Boggs
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen the two leads get into a taxi and are subsequently joined by the two bad guys due to the wartime restriction to fill cabs, the taxi driver is a very young Shelley Winters.
- GoofsThe film opens with an establishing shot of the San Francisco Bay Bridge, then shows Eileen Carr (Nina Foch) standing on a bridge walkway and being accosted by a policeman who asks if she's there to kill herself. The Bay Bridge has no walkway and is not known as a suicide site; scenarist Aubrey Wisberg probably had it confused with the Golden Gate Bridge, which does have a walkway and is famous as a suicide bridge.
- Quotes
Eileen Carr: Well, the fog couldn't be any thicker.
Paul Devon: Fog? What fog? I don't see any fog.
Eileen Carr: Well, what do you call this?
Paul Devon: Moonlight... in a new disguise. It's everything, but more mysterious and beautiful.
Eileen Carr: Do you really see all that?
Paul Devon: Uh-huh... in your eyes.
Eileen Carr: Well darling, keep looking. And I hope I'm not dreaming tonight.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That (2005)
It opens in a nightmare she's having. Walking one fog-bound night on the Golden Gate Bridge, she sees three men piling out of a taxi trying to kill a fourth. She screams and the screams bring to her room in Ye Rustic Dell Inn other guests running to her aid. One of them is the intended victim in her dream (William Wright), whom she's never before laid eyes on. They hit it off, though, and he persuades her to join him for a few days in San Francisco.
Their fling seems destined to be a short one, however, as Wright's a government agent who receives orders from his operator Otto Kruger to courier top-secret documents to Hong Kong. But he's waylaid by agents of the Axis powers, led by Konstantin Shayne. Luckily, Foch believes that her nightmare was in fact a premonition, and rushes off to the Golden Gate Bridge, this time for real....
It's not an especially memorable movie, but it's clever and atmospheric. If its ingenuity at times seems a bit stretched, it's stretched in the (pop)corny way of Saturday matinee serials of the era. There's of course the obligatory dose of wartime rhetoric, with much derision of `Japs,' while the Germans all speak in the most guttural tones they can reach without doing irreparable damage to the larynxes. Still, Boettischer keeps those fog machines churning, and there's plenty of skullduggery in Chinatown at Midnight. Not a bad way to while away an hour-plus.
- bmacv
- Aug 5, 2004
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- Runtime1 hour 3 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1