Last night we delved back into the Criterion Channel's Jacques Tourneur film noir collection (it's a small collection, although Out of the Past is waiting) to watch his 1956 movie Nightfall. It's certainly not as good as Out of the Past (but what film noir is?), but a hell of a lot better than Berlin Express. It had some nice moments, and also some borderline ridiculous moments, so I wouldn't run out to watch it if I were you, but there are worse uses of your time. Mainly, it was interesting for the related rabbit hole exploration it inspired: 1) I didn't know that its star, Aldo Ray, is the father of Eric Da Re, who played Leo Johnson on Twin Peaks, 2) it was one of Anne Bancroft's first movies, 3) Janet didn't make the connection between Brian Keith and the old TV show Family Affair, although when I reminded her she did automatically remember Buffy and Jody, and 4) I remembered that James Gregory (what a great voice) was a character actor who was in a ton of films, but I forgot that he played Deputy Inspector Franklin Luger on Barney Miller for years. It also had one of the great completely over the top movie posters of all time (see above).
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