Clash by Night (35mm)

(Fritz Lang, US 1952, 105 min., 35mm)

From German director Fritz Lang's (M, Metropolis) American period, this noir melodrama, adapted from the Clifford Odets play, opens with Barbara Stanwyck as a fallen woman returning to a seaside hamlet to find unstable domesticity with a simpleminded fisherman (Paul Douglas). But she is soon ensnared in the adulterous nets of Robert Ryan's boozy interloper. In what was her largest part to-date, Marilyn Monroe co-stars as a flighty cannery worker.

35mm print from the George Eastman Museum collection.

Introduction by and post-screening discussion with Julie Grossman.