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Behind City Lights (1945)

Behind City Lights poster
Directed by
John English
Genre
crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 08m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A crime film about a woman who gets caught up in a web of secrets and danger in a big city. She must navigate a world of criminals and detectives to protect herself.

noirishmysteriousgrittytenseclassicstraightforwardurban

What happens

Behind City Lights is a 1945 American crime film directed by John English and written by Richard Weil and Gertrude Walker. The film stars Lynne Roberts, Peter Cookson, Jerome Cowan, Esther Dale, William Terry and Victor Kilian. The film was released on September 10, 1945, by Republic Pictures. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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