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Out of the Fog (working title: Danger Harbor) is a 1941 American film noir crime drama directed by Anatole Litvak and starring John Garfield, Ida Lupino and Thomas Mitchell. The film was based on the play The Gentle People by Irwin Shaw. It was made and released by Warner Brothers.
Out of the Fog: Directed by Anatole Litvak. With John Garfield, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell, Eddie Albert. A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- Anatole Litvak
- 1941-06-14
Near Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, tailor Jonah Goodwin and short order cook Olaf Johnson find solace after work in fishing from their small boat. The men dream of buying a larger boat that would allow them to leave behind their jobs and responsibilities and fish in the Gulf Stream.
Tailor Jonah Goodwin (Thomas Mitchell) and lowly cook Olaf Johnson (John Qualen) are saving their money to go in as partners on a large fishing boat and make a long-desired...
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- Anatole Litvak
- Crime, Drama
- Ida Lupino
A B-movie about a racketeer and his marks in Brooklyn's fishing district, starring John Garfield and Ida Lupino. The film is based on a play by Irwin Shaw and has a flawed fascism allegory, but the acting and dialogue are weak and the plot is predictable.
Fishermen Jonah Goodwin and Olaf Johnson are confronted by gangster Harold Goff who tries to extort boat protection money out of the two men. Afraid to go to the law, the two men decide to take matters into their own hands after Goff falls in love with Jonah's daughter Stella.
In the grand scheme of things, Out of the Fog is no masterpiece. It is, however, studio filmmaking of the early 1940s par excellence. It has two stars in sharply defined roles - good gal Ida Lupino falling for bad boy John Garfield. It has a tight running time filled with incident.
