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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Turner Home Ent
Salesrank: 26608
Released: July 5, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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.
Description of Clash by Night:
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
Clash by Night Reviews:
Satisfying Stanwyck flick 
2009-11-23 - OK, it's basically a soap opera set in a California cannery town, and if lesser actors were in it, it wouldn't be worth recommending. But Barbara Stanwyck and Paul Douglas are just so good as Mae Doyle, the returning local girl who didn't quite succeed, and Joe, her lonely former schoolmate, a local mensch fisherman who never left town and never quite forgot her.
Nothing really deep here. Just get into your jammies, open a box of bonbons, and
settle back happily to see Stanwyck, Douglas, Ryan and Monroe do their stuff.
CLASH BY NIGHT
2009-09-20 - THIS IS ONE OF BARBARA STANWYCK'S BEST MOVIES..ALL INVOLVED DID SOME OF THE BEST ACTING OF THEIR CAREERS.ROBERT RYAN WAS ALWAYS GREAT AND DITTO FOR BOTH PAUL DOUGLAS AND MARILYN MONROE. EXCELLENT STORY WITH FINE ACTING
"Vor dem neuen Tag" by Fritz Lang 
2009-08-09 - First of all it is worthwhile to see this movie, which is something in between of Film Noir and Neorealism. All the actors do their best, and this movie was directed by legendary Fritz Lang. Barbara Stanwyk is absolutely cool in her leading role and Marilyn Monroe has one of her biggest pre-fame roles and is luminous in a unique earth-bound role. Very interesting is the commentary of Peter Bogdanovich with excerpts from an old Fritz Lang interview. I would have given five points if the picture only had a better resolution. It seems as if the DVD was made from an American video tape with less pictures per minute, so if people move quick, the picture is not flowing any more. Then it would have been nice to have as an addition the existing German soundtrack, not only French and Spanish. I hope that one day there will be made a better copy. Especially for Germans it would be very interesting, as this good movie is not very well known in Germany. Although a German version exists under the title "Vor dem neuen Tag!" it has never been shown on television as far as I can remember.
Not Really A Noir, But A Decent Drama With A Different Setting 
2009-02-04 - Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan and Marilyn Monore: wow, not a bad leading foursome of actors! I bought this because it was labeled a film noir, and I am always willing to give them a chance. Plus, with this cast, it sounded good. It turned out to be only fair because it was more of a soap opera than a noir. I guess the presence of some amoral people and a lot of wise-cracking lines made it be considered "noir."
The "amoral" people were played by Stanwyck and Ryan, of course.....who else? They are effective in those roles, too, but they should be since those two fine actors played those roles on numerous occasions. Douglas plays the simpleton good guy who gets shafted by his wife Stanwyck who has an affair with Ryan.
Monroe and her boyfriend (played by Keith Andes) have a smaller role but are just as fascinating a couple, of not ore so than the leads. The final third of this movie didn't match up the first two-thirds or this would be rated at least a four-stars simply because of the great dialog in that first hour. There were so many good lines I couldn't count them all. I just wish it had stayed that way all the way thorough.
The fishing docks of San Francisco certainly was a different site, too, for a noir. To me, this should be simply classified as a "drama" or even "melodrama."
Good Barbara Stanwyck Noir
2008-12-03 - Like Barabara Stanwyck movies ? To keep this review short and sweet - I think you'll love this one where shes a tortured soul, battling basically the good & evil inside her head...oh and Robert Ryan acting like a schmuck is really terrific. Good movie, good acting...don't miss Clash by Night. One of my favorite Stanwyck movies.
