Night People (1954)

Directed by

Nunnally Johnson

Genre

drama film, crime film, spy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 36m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 37 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An American military police officer in occupied Berlin investigates the kidnapping of a U.S. soldier. He navigates Soviet intelligence and local criminals while dealing with a meddling American businessman who pressures him to resolve the case quickly.

tensesuspensefulcoldnoirishbureaucraticpost-warmoral-ambiguitydeliberate

What happens

Night People is a 1954 American thriller film directed, produced and co-written by Nunnally Johnson and starring Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Anita Björk and Buddy Ebsen. The story was co-written by Jed Harris, the theatrical producer. The story is set in Berlin during the Allied occupation in the years following World War II. Peck plays a Military Police lieutenant colonel of the United States Army. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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