Somewhere in the Night 1946

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: As a straight piece of melodramatic staging, this Twentieth Century-Fox film is all right. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: It's a decent picture, though the auteur touches (the visual stiffness, the tendency to drag scenes out long after the dramatic point has been made) are largely negative. Read more

Tom Milne, Time Out: Out of this familiar premise, Mankiewicz has fashioned a classic film noir. Read more

Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: Joseph L. Mankiewicz's nervous nightmare (made in his first year of directing) isn't an all-hallowed member of the noir canon -- it's fairly slick, and Mankiewicz has little or no existentialist cred. But it sings the school's black-hearted lament. Read more