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The Dark Corner
The Dark Corner is a 1946 American crime film noir directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, William Bendix and Mark Stevens. The film was not a commercial success but has since been described as a "Grade A example of film noir."
Hathaway said that The Dark Corner was "not a successful film. It was dead. Mark Stevens never quite cut it. Too arrogant, cocksure."
Private investigator Bradford Galt has moved from San Francisco to New York to escape a troubled past. He blames his former partner Tony Jardine for his problems. Complicating matters, he is hounded by New York police lieutenant Frank Reeves and pursued by a thug in a white suit. The thug is presumably forced to admit that he has been hired by Jardine. But he has not been hired by Jardine. That is a lie made up by wealthy art gallery owner Hardy Cathcart, who actually hired the thug, to induce Galt to harm Jardine.
Galt suspects that Jardine is trying to frame him for a murder, but Jardine, who's been having a secret affair with Cathcart's young wife, is Cathcart's intended victim. With the help of his sharp-witted secretary Kathleen, Galt is able to overcome all of these obstacles and clear himself.
Fox paid $40,000 for the rights to Leo Rosten's story prior to its publication in Good Housekeeping. Rosten published the story under the pen name Leonard Q. Ross.
The film's locations included office buildings in Manhattan, the streets of the Bowery and the Third Avenue El. The arcade sequence was filmed in Santa Monica, California.
Ida Lupino was initially cast as Kathleen but was forced to withdraw because of scheduling conflicts, and Fred MacMurray was originally slated for the role of Galt.
Studio production head Darryl F. Zanuck borrowed Lucille Ball from MGM to play Kathleen. At the time, Ball was trying to break from MGM and had an "unsettled" personal life. A Henry Hathaway biographer wrote: "Early into the shoot, it was obvious to Hathaway that Ball was not concentrating on her job. After she flubbed her lines one time too many, Hathaway embarrassed her before her peers by ordering her to leave the set and actually read the script." However, some regarded the role as one of Ball's finer dramatic performances. According to Hathaway, Ball subsequently apologized for her behavior.
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The Dark Corner
The Dark Corner is a 1946 American crime film noir directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Lucille Ball, Clifton Webb, William Bendix and Mark Stevens. The film was not a commercial success but has since been described as a "Grade A example of film noir."
Hathaway said that The Dark Corner was "not a successful film. It was dead. Mark Stevens never quite cut it. Too arrogant, cocksure."
Private investigator Bradford Galt has moved from San Francisco to New York to escape a troubled past. He blames his former partner Tony Jardine for his problems. Complicating matters, he is hounded by New York police lieutenant Frank Reeves and pursued by a thug in a white suit. The thug is presumably forced to admit that he has been hired by Jardine. But he has not been hired by Jardine. That is a lie made up by wealthy art gallery owner Hardy Cathcart, who actually hired the thug, to induce Galt to harm Jardine.
Galt suspects that Jardine is trying to frame him for a murder, but Jardine, who's been having a secret affair with Cathcart's young wife, is Cathcart's intended victim. With the help of his sharp-witted secretary Kathleen, Galt is able to overcome all of these obstacles and clear himself.
Fox paid $40,000 for the rights to Leo Rosten's story prior to its publication in Good Housekeeping. Rosten published the story under the pen name Leonard Q. Ross.
The film's locations included office buildings in Manhattan, the streets of the Bowery and the Third Avenue El. The arcade sequence was filmed in Santa Monica, California.
Ida Lupino was initially cast as Kathleen but was forced to withdraw because of scheduling conflicts, and Fred MacMurray was originally slated for the role of Galt.
Studio production head Darryl F. Zanuck borrowed Lucille Ball from MGM to play Kathleen. At the time, Ball was trying to break from MGM and had an "unsettled" personal life. A Henry Hathaway biographer wrote: "Early into the shoot, it was obvious to Hathaway that Ball was not concentrating on her job. After she flubbed her lines one time too many, Hathaway embarrassed her before her peers by ordering her to leave the set and actually read the script." However, some regarded the role as one of Ball's finer dramatic performances. According to Hathaway, Ball subsequently apologized for her behavior.