Clearly the movie was mirrored after Orson Welles's The Lady from Shanghai, Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest and Ida Lupino's The Hitchhiker. Did it succeed in doing so and yet becoming even better than them? That's doubtful; still it managed to become a nice work of art on its own. The actors in it are not first-rate but fine. Edmond O'Brien never réally broke through as a major superstar and though that might be regrettable to some, it's in general the story that makes the noir and also here it's just a rehab from all which came before. There's a small chance I will one day see this again.
Review of Man in the Dark
