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Clash By Night
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304119082
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC
ISBN: 6304119089
Label: Turner Home Ent
Languages: English (Original Language), Analog
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Release Date: August 13, 1996
Running Time: 105 minutes
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: June 18, 1952
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Editorial Review:
Barbara Stanwyck plays a hardened woman returning from big-city life to her northern fishing village in this 1952 film noir. After deciding to settle down, she marries a simple man (Paul Douglas) but is wooed by another (Robert Ryan), a circumstance that turns what had been her choice into her trap. Director Fritz Lang (Metropolis, M, The Big Heat), working from a Clifford Odets story, teases out his pet themes about human beings ensnared in fate by their own impulses and in search of redemption. This is not one of Lang's masterpieces, but it is very good in an Anna Christie way. Stanwyck and Ryan, two indispensable figures in the noir genre, are tough as nails. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great actors, director, set. ..but weak, soapy plot.
This film has all the ingredients of a great movie - Fritz Lang directing,
Barbara Stanwyck and Paul Dauglas starring, authentic locations filmed on fishing boats and in a sardine cannery on Monterey's Cannery Row, but a real dud of a plot to hang it all on. Stanwyck returns home from New York to rekindle her unhappy love life by marrying a steady rock of a fisherman played by Paul Douglas, but she really wants the wild and daring projectionist played by Robert Ryan. After the birth of their ... Read More
Rating:  - Women Trapped In Working-Class Marriages
Mae Doyle (Barbara Stanwyck), a woman who once had big-city ambitions for a wealthy marriage, is forced to come back to her home town in defeat and has resigned herself to a drab marriage to decent, but boring Jerry D'Amato. It was only a matter of time before she falls for Jerry's friend Earl. Earl's better looking than Jerry and shares Mae's longing for a larger life. Like so many supposedly politically progressive social dramas of the time, Odet's play overly valorizes working-class men and ridicules ... Read More
Rating: - No glamour here for Marilyn. Barbara Stanwyck is
is maturing beautifully. She plays Mae & has returned home to her brother, Joe after 10 years. She's become a hard & bitter woman. She is a failure & has returned to the safety and tranquility of this California fishing village. Her past seems shady at best. Paul Douglas plays Jerry, a sucessful fisherman & he doesn't care. He is Joe's boss & falls hopelessly in love with Mae. Jerry is very solid, prosperous, simple & boring. Mae knows what kind of woman she is & doesn't want ... Read More
Rating: - SMOLDERING MELODRAMA. RYAN AND STANWYCK EXQUISITE!!!!!!!
Most reviewers of this film seem to have 'gotten it' with respect to the film's undeniable stance in both Robert Ryan and Fritz Lang's careers. Both celebrities enjoy considerable cult status, and they united for the film, which, along with Barbara Stanwyck's jaded portrait of a fallen woman, achieved a cinema realism that was rare in those days. The film was another example of RKO's attempts to bring outstanding films to the screen. One would be hard pressed to find another studio that so consistently sought ... Read More
Rating: - Expected More
I must say that the movie I enjoyed the movie, but expected more to the story than the dark soap opera effect. While watching the early scenes I thought the Stanwyck character had a deep secret that would come out later. When the uncle and dad were talking in one scene they were discussing the discovery of an abandoned baby. I thought this baby would later turn out to be Ms. Stanwycks which she had left for dead after her previous affair with the married man. The ending was also a disappointment. Some scenes ... Read More
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