Directed by: Abner Biberman
Stars: Ray Danton, Colleen Miller, Merry Ander
Language: English + Commentary (2nd track) | Subtitles: English (embed)
Author Film Historian Lee Gambin and Dr Eloise Ross
Country: Usa | Imdb Info | Ar: 1.85:1 | Brrip
Description: A mental patient with a violent past is released from the institution, against the advice of his doctors, and sent back to his old neighborhood. Realizing that he can’t handle the pressures of big-city life, and not wanting to commit the kinds of crimes that got him put away in the first place, he hops a bus heading out of the city and winds up in a small coastal town. Taking a room in a small motel, he falls for the daughter of the motel’s owner, and everything seems to be going well for him, until the girl’s father starts to get suspicious about his past.
Preview
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https://tezfiles.com/file/316066bcaed5a/The.Night.Runner.1957.mkv
you are asking too much from a b-movie…
that is what this is, a b-movie that just uses mental illness as a plot device. There were dozens of films like that int 40s-60s. this one is an almost noir , actually a melodrama/thriller.
I wonder if this movie says anything new about its subject. It was so easy for a 1950s film in this WASP setting to be just “about” something: about a different mentality, about drugs, about delinquents, without bringing any new knowledge to the subject or challenging assumptions. “Night Unto Night” from a short time before almost does say something new, “The Lost Weekend” a little while earlier still definitely does, “I Want to Live!” from the next year shows a bold character without questioning the system, but there is no telling from the preview or the description in a case like this whether it is a work of intelligence or just a good-guy-redemption story.