The Long Night

The Long Night (1947)

COMING AT YOU ... in a blast of terrific drama!

City police surround a building, attempting to capture a suspected murderer. The suspect knows there is no escape but refuses to give in.

Date of release
1947-05-28
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (44)
Runtime
1h 41m
Genres
Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Director
Anatole Litvak

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: Le Jour Se Lève

The Long Night is a 1947 American film noir crime-tragedy directed by Anatole Litvak and produced by RKO Pictures. It is a remake of Le jour se lève (1939) by Marcel Carné. The drama stars Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price and Ann Dvorak. The title of the original French film is an idiom which translates roughly as "dawn is breaking".

Production

When RKO acquired the distribution rights to Le jour se lève in preparation for remaking it as The Long Night, they also sought to buy up all available prints of the original film and destroy them. For a time, it was thought that the French film had been lost completely, but copies of it re-appeared in the 1950s and its classic status was re-established.

The score for the film makes extensive use of the famous Allegretto

second movement of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.

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