--- title: 'The Big Night (1951)' type: 'film' director: 'Joseph Losey' released: '1951-01-01' runtime_minutes: 75 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-big-night-1951' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043340/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Big Night (1951) 1951 · 75 min · Drama · United States ## Synopsis The Big Night is a 1951 American film noir directed by Joseph Losey and starring Preston Foster, Joan Lorring and John Drew Barrymore in his first starring role. The film is based on a script written by Joseph Losey and Stanley Ellin, based on Ellin's 1948 novel Dreadful Summit. Hugo Butler and Ring Lardner Jr. also contributed to the screenplay, but both men were admitted communists, and following Lardner's conviction for contempt of Congress, they were uncredited when the film was first released. ## Credits - **Director:** [Joseph Losey](https://cinepixo.com/people/joseph-losey) - **Screenplay:** [Stanley Ellin](https://cinepixo.com/people/stanley-ellin) - **Original Music Composer:** [Lyn Murray](https://cinepixo.com/people/lyn-murray) - **Director of Photography:** [Hal Mohr](https://cinepixo.com/people/hal-mohr) ## Cast - [Joan Lorring](https://cinepixo.com/people/joan-lorring) - [Howard St. John](https://cinepixo.com/people/howard-st-john) - [John Drew Barrymore](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-drew-barrymore) - [Myron Healey](https://cinepixo.com/people/myron-healey) - [Philip Bourneuf](https://cinepixo.com/people/philip-bourneuf) - [Preston Foster](https://cinepixo.com/people/preston-foster) - [Dorothy Comingore](https://cinepixo.com/people/dorothy-comingore) - [Howland Chamberlain](https://cinepixo.com/people/howland-chamberlain) - [Emile Meyer](https://cinepixo.com/people/emile-meyer) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-big-night-1951 Film facts: Wikidata (Q3034131); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.