A Cry in the Night

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A Cry in the Night

(1956)

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Overview

A police captain's emotions get in the way when his daughter is kidnapped.

Featured Crew

Frank Tuttle

Director
Whit Masterson

Novel
David Dortort

Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Edmond O'Brien

Captain Dan Taggart
Brian Donlevy

Captain Ed Bates
Natalie Wood

Elizabeth
Raymond Burr

Harold Loftus
Richard Anderson

Owen Clark

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A review by John Chard

5.0

Written by John Chard on July 7, 2014

Don’t go walking down lovers loop, with anyone else but me.

A Cry in the Night is directed by Frank Tuttle and adapted to screenplay by David Dortort from Whit Masterson’s novel All through the Night. It stars Edmond O’Brien, Brian Donlevy, Natalie Wood, Raymond Burr and Richard Anderson. Music is by David Buttolph and cinematography by John F. Seitz.

Not a great deal to sing about here, which is a shame because the potential for an electric thriller is right there on the page. Burr plays a peeping tom type who is dominated by his mother, during one of his “sessions” up at Lovers Loop he... read the rest.

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