After a drunken night out, a longshoreman thinks he may have killed a man.
Acting
Gabin's haunted eyes, Lupino's fragile strength
Cinematography
Charles Clarke's fog-wrapped dock nightmares
Direction
Mayo/Lang hybrid creates unease you can't name
Director
Archie Mayo
Jean Gabin
Bobo
Ida Lupino
Anna
Thomas Mitchell
Tiny
Claude Rains
Nutsy
Jerome Cowan
Dr. Frank Brothers
Helene Reynolds
Woman on Boat
Ralph Byrd
Reverend Wilson
William Halligan
"Charlie", Bartender
Victor Sen Yung
Jimmy Takeo
Chester Gan
Henry Hirota
Robin Raymond
Mildred
Arthur Aylesworth
Pop Kelly
Arthur Hohl
Jennings
John Kelly
Mac
Ralph Dunn
Policeman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fritz Lang directed extensive uncredited reshoots after Mayo's original cut tested poorly. The film's visual schizophrenia is literally two directors wrestling.
Gabin's first American role was meant to make him 'the French Spencer Tracy.' It didn't take—he fled back to France after two films, leaving this as his Hollywood fossil.
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