ESCAPE IN THE FOG starts NINA FOCH as US Army nurse Eileen Carr, who is resting at a countryside inn following a breakdown whilst serving during the tail-end of WW2.
At the beginning of this limited budget 63-minute espionage B-movie from COLUMBIA PICTURES. Our character Eileen is walking along a foggy San Francisco bridge at night when she witnesses 3 men tumble out of a taxi with 2 of the passengers attempting to kill the 3rd, during which she lets out a bloodcurdling scream - she then wakes in her hotel room and it was all a dream, but then 2 guests break down her door after hearing her scream and to her amazement one of the men standing in the doorway is the man she saw attacked in her dream, federal agent Barry Malcolm (WILLIAM WRIGHT a sort of cutprice Clark Gable, who had a relatively short career in 40s B Movies before his death from Cancer in 1949 still in his 30s).
Was her dream really a premonition?
Federal agents, Nazis, espionage, kidnappings & attempted murders - all within a barely 1 hour run time - I dont mean that as a criticism, ESCAPE IN THE FOG is a very fast moving, solid little B-Noir.
Not the most well known of 40s Film Noirs (at least not to me)
Co-starring OTTO KRUGER (a side character here but he's still top billed and a rare good guy role)
Directed by BUDD BOETTICHER (here credited as OSCAR BOETTICHER Jr) in one of his first directoral duties, He later spoke rather disparagingly of this and his other early works, calling them "nothing pictures" and while ESCAPE IN THE FOG is a definite low budget B-pic, I feel Boetticher was rather too hard on this picture, which is still an enjoyable, if minor noir, which doesnt outstay its welcome.
This also has SHELLEY WINTERS in her film debut in a uncredited, blink and you'll miss her role as a Taxi Driver who picks up our main characters from their Hotel.
6.5/10 rounded up to 7.
At the beginning of this limited budget 63-minute espionage B-movie from COLUMBIA PICTURES. Our character Eileen is walking along a foggy San Francisco bridge at night when she witnesses 3 men tumble out of a taxi with 2 of the passengers attempting to kill the 3rd, during which she lets out a bloodcurdling scream - she then wakes in her hotel room and it was all a dream, but then 2 guests break down her door after hearing her scream and to her amazement one of the men standing in the doorway is the man she saw attacked in her dream, federal agent Barry Malcolm (WILLIAM WRIGHT a sort of cutprice Clark Gable, who had a relatively short career in 40s B Movies before his death from Cancer in 1949 still in his 30s).
Was her dream really a premonition?
Federal agents, Nazis, espionage, kidnappings & attempted murders - all within a barely 1 hour run time - I dont mean that as a criticism, ESCAPE IN THE FOG is a very fast moving, solid little B-Noir.
Not the most well known of 40s Film Noirs (at least not to me)
Co-starring OTTO KRUGER (a side character here but he's still top billed and a rare good guy role)
Directed by BUDD BOETTICHER (here credited as OSCAR BOETTICHER Jr) in one of his first directoral duties, He later spoke rather disparagingly of this and his other early works, calling them "nothing pictures" and while ESCAPE IN THE FOG is a definite low budget B-pic, I feel Boetticher was rather too hard on this picture, which is still an enjoyable, if minor noir, which doesnt outstay its welcome.
This also has SHELLEY WINTERS in her film debut in a uncredited, blink and you'll miss her role as a Taxi Driver who picks up our main characters from their Hotel.
6.5/10 rounded up to 7.