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The Big Night (1951)

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Reviews Counted:2

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Rotten:1

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Runtime: 75 mins

Genre: Dramas

Starring: John Blythe Barrymore, Preston Foster, Joan Lorring, Howard St. John

Starring: John Blythe Barrymore, Preston Foster, Joan Lorring, Howard St. John, Dorothy Comingore, Philip Bourneuf, Howland Chamberlin, Myron Healey, Emile Meyer, Mauri Lynn

Director: Joseph Losey

Director: Joseph Losey
Studio: United Artists

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Apparently everybody was concerned with theatrical effects and forgot all about a story with point and intelligence.

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An hysterical melodrama posing as a film noir due to the dark underworld it inhabits.

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