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Clash by Night
List Price: $19.98
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on 11-27-2008
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Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan, Marilyn Monroe, J. Carrol Naish
Directors: Fritz Lang
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Language: English
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating: 
Studio: Turner Home Ent
DVD Release Date: July 5, 2005
Run Time: 105 minutes
Average Customer Review:
  (26 customer reviews)
Reader Reviews
Alright adaptation and transplantation (from New York City to Monterrey, California) of Clifford Odets' stage-play CLASH BY NIGHT. Barbara Stanwyck plays hardened woman who returns to hometown where good-boy Paul Douglas meets, squires and marries her. Best friend bad-boy Robert Ryan has plans of his own, though. As usual, Stanwyck nails it as the bad-girl who knows she's bad but wants to reform and enjoy the good life fishing boat captain Douglas can provide. Ryan pretty much keeps pace with her from the mean end of the love triangle. Douglas is... well... Jerry D'Amato is supposed to be a big, naïve, uncomprehending lug whose love is whole-hearted and, unfortunately, blind. This is a sticky melodrama and Douglas simply isn't very convincing. In fact, he goes over the top a time or three and practically beaches this trawler on his own. I've watched this one twice, first al dente and the second time, weeks later, with the Peter Bogdanovich commentary track. Both times, when it came time for Douglas to play his big `betrayed' scenes I couldn't help wondering what William Bendix (Yes, Douglas WAS that painful to watch), or, more perfectly, what Broderick Crawford would have done with the role. That Douglas's flounderings don't sink this one has more to do with the offsetting strength of Stanwyck and Ryan and the welcome presence of a young Marilyn Monroe in a minor role than with any compensating strengths on his part. I'm not giving a strong four stars to CLASH BY NIGHT. More like 3.500001 stars. The Monterrey location adds welcome authenticity to the story and Bogdanovich's commentary (with archived audio tape comments by the director, Fritz Lang) helpfully explains Lang's technique and approach. Although this movie is bundled in a film noir collection it doesn't revolve around a crime or contain a whole lot of thrills. It has a bad-boy and a bad-girl who probably have a basketful of Freudian issues, but they don't bubble to the surface in the traditional noir fashion. Noir... I mean `nor' do I remember the shadow of a venetian blind falling across any agonized face. It IS a roiling, somewhat turgid melodrama with some very good performances.
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Price: $17.99
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