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Hot Summer Night (1957)

Hot Summer Night poster
Directed by
David Friedkin
Genre
drama film, crime film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 26m
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 10 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A down-on-his-luck reporter gets tangled with a dangerous mobster while investigating a story in a small town. A woman tries to help him as tensions rise and the situation spirals out of control.

tensegrittynoirishslow-burnmelancholicatmosphericsuspensefulbleak

What happens

Hot Summer Night is a 1957 crime film directed by David Friedkin and starring Leslie Nielsen, Colleen Miller, and Edward Andrews. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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