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The Night Runner

The Night Runner

5,4 /10 (10 Votes)
1957 EN 79 min

Overview

A mental patient with a violent past is released from the institution, against the advice of his doctors, and sent back to his old neighborhood. Was he released too soon?

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Release date

02/04/1957

Votes

10

Popularity

0.8

Are mental patients turned loose too soon?

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Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

79 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2023-11-13

⭐ 6

I can't say I am too familiar with Ray Danton, but his dashing good looks and considered performance go some way to keeping this sad and complicated melodrama out of the doldrums. We know from the start that he has been released from a psychiatric hospital (initially against the advice of his doctor who was rather brow-beaten into changing his mind by his board colleagues). It is fairly clear that this man, "Roy", is prone to less lucid moments and his past does limit his opportunities in his new, bustling, environment. "Roy" takes a bus up the coast and along the way alights at a garage where…

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