Clash by Night
by Fritz Lang
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Actor: Barbara Stanwyck, J. Carrol Naish, Marilyn Monroe, Paul Douglas, Robert RyanDirector: Fritz Lang
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Nicholas Musuraca
Editor: George Amy
Producer: Harriet Parsons
Producer: Jerry Wald
Producer: Norman Krasna
Writer: Alfred Hayes
Writer: Clifford Odets
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-07-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Turner Home Ent
DVD Reviews of Clash by Night
DVD Review: "She left town with big ideas but got small results"
Summary: 5 Stars
Clash By Night opens with waves crashing against rocks and seagulls flying effortlessly over the windswept sea. Perhaps this is meant to symbolize the dueling powers of freedom and passion, and although by today's standards the images might appear clichéd, they give do give the viewer a good indication of what is to come in this marvelously acted exploration of romantic dreams gone wrong.
The characters in the sensational Clash By Night are moving through a landscape of disenchantment and broken hearts; they're crippled and frustrated with disappointments that life hasn't quite panned out the way they wanted. This is particularly true of the movie's central character, Mae Doyle (Barbara Stanwyck) who returns home to the small fishing village of Monterrey after being away for ten years.
Things haven't really gone that well for Mae. Apparently she became involved with a married politician, but she got sick and tired of waiting for him. Now she's bitter and cynical, a tough hard-bitten broad who drinks like a fish, smokes like a chimney, and makes wise cracks about the pointlessness of love and the futility of men. Mae's become tired from running away from her problems and of being vulnerable.
Mae's sexy and very beefy younger brother Joe (Keith Andes) is weary of her. He's not happy that she's back but he tells her that he can stay with him temporarily. His fiancée, Peggy (a delectable Marylyn Monroe) is immediately drawn to Mae - she admires Mae's independent spirit and her sense of adventure. Although Peggy loves Joe, there's a part of her that, like Mae, desires to be liberated and unconventional.
Soon Mae reconnects with Jerry D'Amato (Paul Douglas), a kindly, hard-working, and affable fisherman. He showers her with attention and compassion and is immediately taken by her spirited and strong-willed ways. Eventually Jerry asks her to marry him, but Mae is unsure. Jerry's a little too simple and unsophisticated for the complex Mae. She realizes doesn't love Jerry, but she thinks this marriage will give her stable life, one in which she can feel secure.
When Jerry introduces Mae to his close friend, movie projectionist, Earl Pfeiffer (Robert Ryan), she's initially put off by his cynical and rude ways. He makes disparaging remarks about Asians and threatens to stick pins in his wife. Mae is disgusted, but something draws her to him. Earl is a startlingly handsome and virile man, but he's also a kindred spirit; someone who, like Mae, has been searching for love, but has somehow ended up disappointed.
The stage is set for some fiery emotion as these three characters become involved in a desperate and distracted love triangle. The three of them desperately want love and security but they're not sure how to get it and whom to get it from. Mae is torn between her desire to be a fully independent woman and her need for the security of a marriage. She doesn't want to conform but in many respects she has no choice. And her dilemma is representative of many spirited women in the 1950's. In one instance, she screams at Jerry, that she just can't play "house" anymore.
Earl is a drifter and the last thing he wants is to be saddled with a child. He's also a romantic loser, who gripes about his failed marriage and is predominantly selfish at heart. Jerry is sincere, but he's also rather infantile and naïve and you can understand why Mae gradually tires of him. Mae is drawn to Jerry out of a yearning, to be taken care of, but she's forced to sublimate and hide her real passions, which are for Earl.
Clash by Night is a beautifully acted ensemble drama. The movie is full of complex and multifaceted characters who steadily grow and transform as the story progresses. Even the innocent naïve Peggy is forced to confront what she really wants when Joe meets her spirited ways head on. No one in this movie wants to grow old - alone and alienated; they're all desperate but, as in keeping with the time, their choices are remarkably limited.
Director, Fritz Lang doesn't sugar-coat the characters or avoid the issues; and he manages to show, with a startling authenticity, how easy it is for us to go through life choosing to see faults in other people yet often blind to the faults within ourselves. Mike Leonard July 05.
Description of Clash by Night
Mae Doyle is a good-time girl but now times are bad. Weary of too much booze and too many men she returns to her girlhood home the fishing village of Monterey California. There she finds security as the wife of a devoted and dull fisherman - and passion in the arms of his provocative best friend. Film noir master Fritz Lang (The Big Heat Ministry of Fear) directs four towering talents - Barbara Stanwyck Paul Douglas Robert Ryan and rising star Marilyn Monroe - in a stark tale of lives burnished by human emotion and shattered by human failings. Intense and powerfully realistic Clash by Night (from a Clifford Odets play) is about many towns many families. Serene on the surface. Roiling with desperation underneath.Running Time: 105 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: FOREIGN/LATIN UPC: 053939724820Bestsellers in DVD
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