A barber commits a petty theft, which leads to his becoming involved in blackmail and murder.A barber commits a petty theft, which leads to his becoming involved in blackmail and murder.A barber commits a petty theft, which leads to his becoming involved in blackmail and murder.
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- TriviaThe film is regarded as a film noir, one of the earliest examples of the genre to be produced in the United Kingdom. Film historian Andrew Spicer considers it remarkable in the genre due to its "sustained doom-laden atmosphere".
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Will Kobling: I wish I hadn't done it, Kit!
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Suffering Can Only Be Borne to a Sufficient Point...
A relentlessly harrowing drama that anticipates Sidney Lumet's 'Before the Devil Knows You're Dead' (2007) by nearly seventy years.
I once saw a silent film that I correctly guessed was going to turn out to be a bad dream since the hero's plight had escalated so far out of control that was the only way it could possibly be resolved; and resorting to making it All a Dream has ruined quite a few fine films in its time (as well as coming as a great relief when I've woken up a few times)!
'On the Night of the Fire' is such a film. As Ralph Richardson's situation grew more and more desperate in this Tyneside (not that you'd know it from the accents) 'Crime and Punishment' the more convinced I became that it was all going to end with him waking up to discover that it had all just been a nightmare.
Or was it?
I once saw a silent film that I correctly guessed was going to turn out to be a bad dream since the hero's plight had escalated so far out of control that was the only way it could possibly be resolved; and resorting to making it All a Dream has ruined quite a few fine films in its time (as well as coming as a great relief when I've woken up a few times)!
'On the Night of the Fire' is such a film. As Ralph Richardson's situation grew more and more desperate in this Tyneside (not that you'd know it from the accents) 'Crime and Punishment' the more convinced I became that it was all going to end with him waking up to discover that it had all just been a nightmare.
Or was it?
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- richardchatten
- Jan 7, 2020
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- Runtime1 hour 16 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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