Clash by Night 1952

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: The Clifford Odets screenplay seems to have roused the realist in director Fritz Lang: the backwater atmosphere is as authentic as it is oppressive. Read more

A.H. Weiler, New York Times: It lacks conviction and distinction despite its hard-working principals. Read more

Tony Rayns, Time Out: A very Langian picture of the dangerous undercurrents in emotional relationships, excellently acted by the three principals. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Clifford Odets' Clash by Night, presented on Broadway over a decade earlier, reaches the screen in a rather aimless drama of lust and passion. Read more