Somewhere in the Night

"Somewhere in his mind!"

1946 1h 50m EN

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★6.7TMDB · 74

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George Taylor returns from WWII with amnesia. Back home in Los Angeles, while trying to track down his old identity, he stumbles onto a three year old murder case and a hunt for a missing $2 million.

“Somewhere in his mind!”

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Cast

John Hodiak
George W. Taylor
Nancy Guild
Christy Smith
Lloyd Nolan
Police Lt. Donald Kendall
Richard Conte
Mel Phillips
Josephine Hutchinson
Elizabeth Conroy
Fritz Kortner
Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle
Margo Woode
Phyllis
Sheldon Leonard
Sam

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writers: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Marvin Borowsky, Howard Dimsdale
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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80 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, shot by Norbert Brodine. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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CAST

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John Hodiak and Nancy Guild and Lloyd Nolan carry the top of the cast.

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Marketing tagline: "Somewhere in his mind!".

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IMDB entry: tt0038965 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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Only 74 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Joseph L. Mankiewicz directs. Norbert Brodine behind the camera. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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180 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
2Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, shot by Norbert Brodine. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
3John Hodiak and Nancy Guild and Lloyd Nolan carry the top of the cast.
4Marketing tagline: "Somewhere in his mind!".
5IMDB entry: tt0038965 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
6Only 74 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
7Classified under 12 themes, including "amnesia", "war veteran", "gangster", "film noir".
8Released under 20 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Norbert Brodine
Costume design: Kay Nelson
Makeup / hair: Ben Nye
Runtime: 110 min · 1h 50m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Box office: $1,500,000
Original language: EN
Certification (US): NR
IMDB: Somewhere in the Night (1946)

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CinemaSerf2023-05-22
★ 7/10
"Taylor" (John Hodiak) returns from a war-torn Europe after WWII disfigured and suffering from memory loss. Gradually, as his amnesia starts to fade, he recalls the name of one man who might be able to help him get back on his feet so sets off to Los Angeles to find him. Pretty quickly he discovers that this isn't going to be an easy task - and it's only after he is beaten and dumped outside the door of "Christy" (Nancy Guild) that he regales his story and then she decides to get him introduced to police lieutenant "Kendall" (Lloyd Nolan). This is where the story starts to hot up. It seems his friend ("Cravat") was caught up in what appears to be some postwar Nazi money laundering/smuggling and it's a race against time to find the cash before it's gone along with a likely murderer. The largely B-list cast all work quite well here. Nobody is trying to outshine the other and so that allows the solid story to develop and play out properly. It's not just a routine crime drama, there are a few twists and the paucity of characters on screen allows for more of them to become a little more substantial as we progress through this intriguing investigation to quite an exciting denouement. It's maybe just ten minutes too long, it takes a while to build up steam - but still, if you like the genre, it's at the better end and worth a watch.

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