The Long Night

Joe (Henry Fonda), puzzled by girlfriend Jo Ann (Barbara Bel Geddes), follows her to a night club where he sees Maximillian (Vincent Price) and meets Charlie (Ann Dvorak), in Anatole Litvak's The Long Night, 1947.

Early in a prolonged flashback, Joe (Henry Fonda) at his sand-blasting job meets curious Jo Ann (Barbara Bel Geddes) in The Long Night, 1947, director Anatole Litvak's remake of Marcel Carne's Le Jour se leve.

After an opening featuring a body falling down a stairwell, Sheriff Meade (Howard Freeman) and colleagues try to raise troubled veteran Joe (Henry Fonda) in his apartment, in the second scene from director Anatole Litvak's The Long Night, 1947.

Offbeat opening credits and narration from director Anatole Litvak's The Long Night, 1947, a remake of French director Marcel Carne's Le Jour se leve, starring Henry Fonda and Barbara Bel Geddes.