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‘This fascinating and highly atmospheric “missing link” between French poetic realism and American film noir features Jean Gabin as a drunken dockworker who fears he has committed murder and hides out on a barge where he witnesses the attempted suicide of a young woman (Lupino). Gabin and Lupino provide a truly distinctive coupling in this strange, doom-laden and often-existential psychological drama containing many fascinating associations: Fritz Lang directed a number of its initial scenes; Salvador Dali worked on the subjective “drunk” sequences; John O’Hara wrote the script. With Claude Rains and Thomas Mitchell.’ – Melbourne Cinémathèque

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