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Thursday, May 3, 2018

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     A Cry in the Night
1956  NR  DRAMA  1h 15min
CAST— Edmond O’Brien, Brian Donlevy, Natalie Wood, Raymond Burr
MUSIC— David Buttolph  DIRECTOR— Frank Tuttle  BASED ON— All Through the Night (novel), by Whit Masterson

     Instantly forgettable tale of mama’s boy Raymond Burr kidnapping a young Natalie Wood from a smoochy smoochy lookout point. He does so after attacking her suitor with as dangerous a weapon as could be allowed on screen: a lunchbox. We’re talkin’ hardcore. Anyway, suitor wakes up in police custody where he finally meets his girlfriend’s father, police captain Edmond O’Brien, a temper tantrum waiting to happen. Meanwhile, Wood is being terrorized by her captor, whose offers of apricot pie and frilly dresses add madness to her misery. Burr is a standout as the somewhat slow-witted perp, whereas O’Brien is over acting his heart out. And you thought Perry Mason was a do-gooder. Tsk, tsk.
OUR RATING— **
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