New Print!

In March we presented a fantastic series of newly preserved and restored black–and–white films from Columbia Pictures which we called So Dark the Light, after the one film that, in the event, couldn't be shown, as it arrived missing a reel, since located. In this brooding tale of a renowned Parisian detective searching for a murderer in a village where he intended to be vacationing, Joseph H. Lewis (My Name Is Julia Ross, Gun Crazy) guys his oft–told tale of the hunter obsessed by his prey into some ingenious turns of psychology and perception-much of it done with mirrors. William K. Everson wrote, "Lewis's unique ability to suggest a country or a milieu merely by adroit choice of location and skillful editing, art direction, and camera angling...is here so successfully utilized that many assumed the film to have been shot on location in France. A complex psychological murder mystery, essentially a film noir, So Dark the Night is very probably Lewis's most personal film and certainly one of his best."