It is a murder mystery involving Nazi loot. Cast John Hodiak as George W. Taylor Nancy Guild as Christy Smith Lloyd Nolan as Police Lt. Donald Kendall Richard Conte as Mel Phillips Josephine Hutchinson as Elizabeth Conroy Fritz Kortner as Anzelmo aka Dr. Oracle Margo Woode as Phyllis Sheldon Leonard as Sam Lou Nova as Hubert Whit Bissel as bartender not credited Production notes 20th Century Fox purchased Marvin Borowsky's original, unpublished story "The Lonely Journey" and his accompanying screenplay in December 1944 for $11,000. Somewhere in the Night was Nancy Guild's first film. Production Dates: 21 Nov 1945–24 Jan 1946. A radio version of the film, starring John Hodiak and Lynn Bari, was broadcast on Lux Radio Theatre on March 3, 1947. Reception When the film was first released, film critic Bosley Crowther gave the film a negative review, writing "Lloyd Nolan, Richard Conte, Josephine Hutchinson and several others are competent as varied pawns. Their performances are interesting; it's only too bad that they have such turbid and inconclusive things to do. After a while, the mad confusion of the story inspires a complete apathy." More recently, film critic Dennis Schwartz praised the film, writing "A dark moody noir tale about a marine who gets blown up by a grenade in the South Pacific during a skirmish in WW-II and survives, only to become an amnesia victim...Mankiewicz does a nice job of creating the dark noir mood. The film is spiced up with comedy, excellent performances, plenty of suspense, plus a tense voice-over by John Ireland, and it manages to keep the pot boiling with a quintessential amnesiac story." References External links Somewhere in the Night information site and DVD review at DVD Beaver (includes images) Streaming audio Somewhere in the Night on Lux Radio Theatre: March 3, 1947 at My Old Radio 1946 films 1940s crime thriller films American black-and-white films 1940s English-language films Film noir Films about amnesia Films directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz Films scored by David Buttolph Films with screenplays by Joseph L. Mankiewicz 20th Century Fox films American crime thriller films 1940s American films