Nightfall
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Year Released: 1957
Rating: 2.5
No good deed goes unpunished: after two men get into a car accident, Aldo Ray and his buddy, a doctor (Frank Albertson), try to help them, only to find out that the fellows they're trying to assist are bank robbers. Plot contrivances work against this one to a considerable degree (everyone just happens to be in the right place at the right time to end the picture), but the use of flashbacks is well done, as Ray confides in Anne Bancroft's worn-out sympathizer how he got in the trouble he did. Tourneur's visual talents are on display (compare/contrast his view of city life versus country life), and there are plenty of questions about Ray's ethics that beg for post-film discussion.
