Review of Nightfall

Nightfall (1956)
9/10
A delightfully weird noir
7 June 2023
Aldo Ray meets fashion model Anne Bancroft at a bar and they hit it off. Unfortunately Ray is being pursued by Brian Keith and Rudy Bond, two bank robbers who ran into Ray and a friend camping ... an encounter that resulted in a dead friend and Ray running off with their money. Ray misplaced the money, but they aren't having any of that.

This is a delightfully eccentric noir. How eccentric? It features Ray and Bancroft as a romantic couple. She's really great, bringing a really atypical energy to the role. Of the two robbers, Bond is a talkative, joke cracking psychopath which amps up the weirdness. It all leads to everyone heading up to the snowy mountains of Wyoming where Ray lost the money, with insurance investigator James Gregory tailing them.
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