The Dark Corner (Fox Film Noir)
by Henry Hathaway
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Actor: Clifton Webb, Kurt Kreuger, Lucille Ball, Mark Stevens, William BendixDirector: Henry Hathaway
Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
Cinematographer: Joseph MacDonald
Editor: J. Watson Webb Jr.
Producer: Fred Kohlmar
Writer: Bernard C. Schoenfeld
Writer: Jay Dratler
Writer: Leo Rosten
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-12-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of The Dark Corner (Fox Film Noir)
Movie Review: Decent Noir Overall, But Weak Ending
Summary: 3 Stars
This was a so-so film noir that could have been very good had it not had a an ending that was so weak.
The cast was solid, however, playing interesting characters. It featured Mark Stevens, Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, William Bendix, Kurt Krueger and Constance Collier.
Ball was the most interesting to view simply because most of us remember her as "Lucy" on TV and in 1946, she was as alluring as I've ever seen her look. I would like to have seen her in a few more film noirs. Collier had a classic beauty, but she's an actress who is unfamiliar to me, unfortunately. I believe her career was nearing at end at this time.
The story actually moves pretty well with just a few short lulls. Now that it's out on DVD, perhaps the number of people who are aware of this relatively-unknown film noir will increase.
Summary of The Dark Corner (Fox Film Noir)
Lucille Ball has a change of pace role as the loyal secretary of a private eye in this brooding film noir about a man being set up for a murder rap. Framed by his partner years ago, hard-boiled detective Bradford Galt (Mark Stevens) served a two year stretch for manslaughter. Now trying to start over, he spends his time serving his clients and romancing his new secretary, Kathleen (Lucille Ball). But everything changes with the appearance of a sinister man in a whit suit (William Bendix) who's apparently working for Galt's ex-partner, Tony Jardine. When Jardine is killed, the police blame Galt. It's another frame, but if Galt can't prove he's innocent, this time he's headed for death row.The Dark Corner can't seriously be proposed as a great film noir, but it's one that people cherish. For one thing, it's unique in having Lucille Ball--who has absolutely no "splainin'" to do--as the smart, resourceful, devoted secretary of beleaguered private eye Mark Stevens. Lucy actually rates top billing, with Clifton up-to-his-old-Laura-tricks Webb and William vicious-brute-in-a-white-suit Bendix also getting their names above that of the hero in the credits. In this, there's a certain justice; they all deliver the goods, whereas Stevens seems a tad lightweight as the hardnose, Phil Marlowe type cracking wise and punching his way through the mean streets. His character comes burdened with more backstory than usual for movie detectives; this time, the case the private eye has to solve is his own. The intriguingly convoluted screenplay (by Jay Dratler, who co-wrote Laura, and Bernard Schoenfeld, from a story by Leo Rosten) takes hold like a vise and sustains the tension even though, by rights, its credibility should be shrinking with each passing reel. Henry Hathaway's direction is crisp, and the cinematography by Joe MacDonald (who would next shoot John Ford's My Darling Clementine) is both pungent and gorgeous. With Cathy Downs, Kurt Kreuger, and Reed Hadley, who plays a police detective here but more often supplied the voiceover on Fox's semidocumentary thrillers and Anthony Mann's T-Men. --Richard T. Jameson
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