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Clash By Night (1952)
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas Director: Fritz Lang Rating: Not Rated
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In this film noir thriller Clash By Night, Mae Doyle is a good-time girl, but now times are bad. Weary of too much booze and too many men, she returns to her girlhood home, the fishing village of Monterey, California. There she finds security as the wife of a devoted and dull fisherman - and passion in the arms of his provocative best friend. Film noir master Fritz Lang (The Big Heat, Ministry of Fear) directs four towering talents - Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan and rising star Marilyn Monroe - in a stark tale of lives burnished by human emotion and shattered by human failings. Intense and powerfully realistic, Clash by Night (from a Clifford Odets play) is about many towns, many families. Serene on the surface. Roiling with desperation underneath.
Barbara Stanwyck and Marilyn Monroe star in Fritz Lang's Clash By Night, based on a play by Clifford Odets. Lang (M, METROPOLIS, THE BIG HEAT) stays true to form with this disturbing yet subtle portrait of the dangerous undercurrents of everyday life and the push and pull of greed and loyalty in modern relationships. The film Clash By Night begins with Mae Doyle (Stanwyck) returning to the safe haven of her hometown, a small fishing community in Monterey, California. Upon her arrival, she is befriended by a newly married young woman working in the canneries, played by Monroe. Mae also finds a friend in a kindhearted fisherman whom she quickly marries. But before too long Mae has thrown herself into a tumultuous affair with another man.
In the second half of the movie Clash By Night, which takes place a year after the first, Mae willingly abandons her husband and child to pursue her affair. But she quickly learns that her new lover is a bitter, angry man. With him she's not the person that she used to be. She regrets her decision terribly and wishes that she could return to her husband--that is, if he could ever forgive her. Stanwyck's performance in Clash By Night as a world-weary vamp is compellingly juxtaposed with Monroe's performance as a sassy, naive newlywed, as each character offsets the other's personal struggles. The storms that batter the coast of the gritty, realist locale mirror the storms that rage within each character as they search for the meanings of their lives.
Theatrical Release: May 16th, 1952.
Clash By Night was filmed in Hollywood, California in 1951.
Marilyn Monroe played one of her first major motion picture roles in Clash By Night.
David Dortort contributed to the screenplay of Clash By Night
Clash By Night is also available as part of the Film Noir Classic Collection: Volume 2 |
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Starring:
Barbara Stanwyck | Paul Douglas | Robert Ryan | Marilyn Monroe | J. Carrol Naish | Keith Andes | Silvio Minciotti | Tony Martin | ...more
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Directed By:
Fritz Lang
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Genre:
Drama, Thriller/Suspense
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DVD Release Date:
July 5, 2005
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Format: Region 1
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Rating:
Not Rated
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Year:
1952
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Regional Coding:
R1:
Will only play on North American Region 1 or multi-region DVD players.
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Number of Discs:
1
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Subtitles:
English, French, Spanish
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Screen Ratio:
Full Screen Edition - 1.33:1
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Running Time:
105 minutes
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Studio:
Warner Brothers
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Catalogue Number:
DVE277248
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UPC/Barcode Number:
053939724820
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Black & White: Yes
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Closed-Captioned: Yes
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- Audio Commentary by Peter Bogdanovich
- Audio Interview with Excerpts of Director Fritz Lang franchise
- Scene Access
- Interactive Menus
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