CLASH BY NIGHT

Details

• Release Year: 1952
• Genre: Drama; Film-Noir
• Plot: 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.
• Cast: Barbara Stanwyck; Paul Douglas; Robert Ryan; Marilyn Monroe; J. Carrol Naish; Keith Andes; Silvio Minciotti; Tony Martin; William Bailey; Dan Bernaducci; Dick Coe; Irene Crosby; Tony Dante; Roy D'Armour; Nancy Duke; Art Dupuis; Gil Frye; Helen Hansen; Frank Kreig; Mario Siletti; Bill Slack; Bert Stevens; Deborah Stewart; Diane Stewart; Julius Tannen; Sally Yarnell; Fritz Lang
• Director: Fritz Lang
• Runtime: 1:45
• Company: RKO Radio Pictures
• Media Format: Movie