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   So Dark The Night (US) 1946   
   22 Mar 21 17:44:01   
   
   From: wlah...@gmail.com   
      
   Hey,   
      
   Sometimes a detective just can't catch a break. An over-worked and well-known   
   police detective finally takes a much needed vacation out in the provinces. He   
   stays at an inn run by a married couple and their daughter and in a flash the   
   detective is    
   smitten and begins wooing the daughter. There is an engagement party and the   
   next morning the daughter is found murdered. Suspicion falls on her jealous   
   ex-boyfriend and then, he, too, is murdered. The mother receives a note   
   stating that she is next. The    
   detective is perplexed since the only clue is a shoe print.   
      
   After the detective returns home, he has a consultation with the police chief   
   and a sketch artist to try and develop a suspect. That's when the story bends   
   into strange territory – Agatha Christie plowed a similar row – in another   
   postwar variation    
   on a mythic detective.   
      
   Directed by Joseph H Lewis from a screenplay by Dwight V Babcock and Martin   
   Berkeley based on a short story by Aubrey Wisberg. Cinematography by Burnett   
   Guffey and music by Hugo Friedhofer. Starring Steven Geray, Micheline Cheirel,   
   and Eugene Borden,    
   among others.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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