Home Before Dark

Home Before Dark

1958 | 2h 17m | Drama | TV-PG

Brief Synopsis

A woman fights to regain her life after time in a mental institution in spite of the well-intentioned but misplaced meddling of her stepmother and stepsister, who may have been having an affair with her husband while she was institutionalized.

Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

Mervyn LeRoy

CAST

Jean Simmons

Dan O'Herlihy

Rhonda Fleming

Efrem Zimbalist

Mabel Albertson

Stephen Dunne

Joan Weldon

Joanna Barnes

Marjorie Bennett

Johnstone White

Eleanor Audley

PRODUCERS

Mervyn LeRoy

WRITERS

Eileen Bassing

Host Intros

01:28
Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- Home Before Dark (1958)
Intro Aired: Nov 2018
Ben Mankiewicz introduces Home Before Dark, 1958. 218_3M8XG

Related Videos

Home Before Dark (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Never Mention It Again
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Home from her year's stay in the mental hospital, husband Arnold (Dan O'Herlihy) recommends a nap for Charlotte (Jean Simmons), who's worried that she may have insulted step-sister Joan (Rhonda Fleming), in Home Before Dark, 1958.
Home Before Dark (1958) -- (Movie Clip) When I Was Ill
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Sleepless New Englander Charlotte (Jean Simmons), recently released from the mental hospital, encounters new boarder, her husband's colleague, professor Diamond (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.) down on the docks, in Mervyn LeRoy's Home Before Dark, 1958.
Home Before Dark (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Come Back And See Us
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First scene for Charlotte (Jean Simmons), collected by husband Arnold (Dan O'Herlihy) after a year's stay at the asylum, a nurse (Lillian Culver) not helping, early in Mervyn LeRoy's Home Before Dark, 1958.

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