Jacques Tourneur has an usual film history as director. He mostly did B pictures, and plenty of low budget horror, most notably the cult classics Cat People (6 rating) and Night of the Demon (6 rating). He also did Westerns and Film Noir, including one of the best of that genre, Out of the Past (8 rating). He wrapped up his career as a television director in the 60's.
Nightfall is a classic B film noir, and the kind that makes you wish it had the production values of Out of the Past. Before Brian Keith went Disney, he excelled in these quiet/creepy B-movie villan rolls, and he's never been better than here. Anne Bancroft, James Gregory and Aldo Ray sometimes seem a bit too 50's stereotypical, but get the job done. Rudy Bond mostly did bit roles in his career, but he steals the show here as the Keith's nasty sidekick. A 7 rating.
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