Streaming Night Without Stars (1951) Online

Night Without Stars (1951)iMDB Rating: 6.0
Date Released : 5 July 1953
Genre : Crime, Drama
Stars : David Farrar, Nadia Gray, Maurice Teynac, Gilles Quéant. A partially blind Englishman retires to the French Riviera. He meets and falls for the Widow of a French Resistance fighter but is horrified when he discovers she is involved with smugglers and murderers." />
Movie Quality : BRrip
Format : MKV
Size : 870 MB

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A partially blind Englishman retires to the French Riviera. He meets and falls for the Widow of a French Resistance fighter but is horrified when he discovers she is involved with smugglers and murderers.

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Green Sleeves.

Night Without Stars is directed by Anthony Pelissier and adapted to screenplay by Winston Graham from his own novel of the same name. It stars David Farrar, Nadia Gray, Maurice Teynac, Gerard Landry and June Clyde. Music is by William Alwyn and cinematography by Guy Green.

Story is set in post war France and finds Farrar as Giles Gordon, a British lawyer who has been left partially blinded by the war. Upon meeting shop assistant Alix Delaisse (Gray), he falls in love with her but soon finds she has ties to the resistance and that another suitor doesn't welcome his arrival on the scene. Soon enough Giles find himself amongst blackmailers, forgers and murderers, his life is in danger and Alix has disappeared.

The hook here is that Giles seeks out an operation to correct his sight issue and then sets about unravelling the mysteries, still pretending that he is nearly blind! The plot has a delicious slice of incredulity about it, and with the screenplay being quite literate, it rolls out as a match made in cinematic heaven. Pelissier (The Rocking Horse Winner) and Green (Great Expectations/Oliver Twist) deal firmly in chiaroscuro photography, bathing a good portion of the film in noirish visuals.

Atmosphere is a big thing in a story of this kind and Night Without Stars has it in abundance. Add in some sensuality and a quite brilliant performance by Farrar and you are good to go for a great winter's night in by the fire. 8/10