GamerTab That was an excellent one.

BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Griff Lees Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Rexanne It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Spikeopath Out of the Fog is directed by Anatole Litvak and collectively adapted to screenplay by Robert Macaulay, Robert Rosen and Jerry Wald from the play The Gentle People written by Irwin Shaw. It stars John Garfield, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell, John Qualen and Eddie Albert. Music is by Heinz Roemheld and cinematography by James Wong Howe. The Brooklyn wharf-side is the setting for this melodrama tinted with noirish themes and players. The area is Sheepshead Bay and the local citizens are a gathering of people stuck in a rut they seem incapable of getting out of. Old gentlemen dreamers planning to buy a big boat and sail off to sunnier climes, the local lovely who's in a dull relationship with a dullard – who craves for something more spicy. Other patrons of Sheepshead just while away the hours playing cards in the local restaurant - that's the peak of their excitement, and others are just slaves to the grindstone. Then there's Jacob Goff (Garfield), a chiseller and racketeer, a man who stomps around the wharf like the cock of the hen-house, gathering protection money or casually setting fire to the boats of anyone who dares not to pay their dues… There's a wonderfully atmospheric feel to Out of the Fog, due to the claustrophobic setting of the story and Wong Howe's moody photography. Characterisations are enhanced by some well versed scripting that puts lyrical dialogue into the mouths of the principal players. Goff is the archetypal charming rogue, with a killer smile and sexy danger oozing from his pores, it's no wonder that frustrated Stella Goodwin (Lupino) spies an opportunity to escape her humdrum existence. Hell! Goff even does card tricks. But of course he is a sort of devil in disguise, or fascism in disguise as it happens, and as he tips the lives upside down of the Sheepshead residents, it brings threats and violence to this once quiet little waterfront. 1941 was a key year for film noir, with the likes of The Maltese Falcon and I Wake Up Screaming lighting the touch paper of a film making style that would burn brightly for the next 20 years. Out of the Fog has made its may into some noir publications, which is understandable given the essence of the story and the presence of noir legends Lupino and Garfield, but it's not what I would call essential film noir by some margin. However, it's a comfortable recommendation to like minded noirphiles regardless. 7/10

Claudio Carvalho In Brooklyn, fishing is the hobby of the workers Jonah Goodwin (Thomas Mitchell) and Olaf Johnson (John Qualen) and they use to fish every night in their old boat. Jonah's daughter is the twenty-one year-old telephone operator Stella Goodwin (Ida Lupino), who is an ambitious young woman that dreams on leaving her neighborhood. She is the sweetheart of the worker George Watkins (Eddie Albert), a simple man that dreams on marrying her. When the smalltime gangster Harold Goff (John Garfield) arrives in Brooklyn, he extorts money from Jonah and Olaf to "protect" their boat from fire and dates Stella. Jonah tries to convince his daughter that Goff is a racketeer that takes money out of poor ordinary people but she does not care to her father since she sees Goff as her chance to have a comfortable life and visit new places. When she discloses to Goff that her father has savings, Goff demands the money to Jonah. Now the old man is convinced that the only chance to get rid off Goff is to fight back. "Out of the Fog" is a good drama with John Garfield performing a cold racketeer and Ida Lupino kind of lost in a contradictory role of a silly young woman that seems to love her father but even after knowing that her boyfriend is extorting him, she continues to date the racketeer. Despite the bleak and amoral conclusion, "Out of the Fog" is a great classic. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "Quando a Noite Cai" ("When the Night Falls")

mark.waltz Two poor Sheepshead Bay fisherman (Thomas Mitchell and John Qualen) become the victims of a seemingly charming (but really ruthless and violent) racketeer (John Garfield) who demands protection money. As they fall prey to his threats, he gets more demanding, and when he begins to ensnare Mitchell's daughter (Ida Lupino), papa gets fed up. At Mitchell's urging, he and Qualen have Garfield arrested for extortion, but a technicality gets him off and Mitchell is brutally beaten with a rubber hose. Mitchell convinces Qualen that they need to knock Garfield off to get out from under his skin and to protect his daughter. Of course, things don't go as planned and Lupino's old boyfriend (Eddie Albert) is implicated in his murder.Garfield and Lupino are top billed, but is Mitchell and Qualen whom the story focuses on and are deserving of the acting honors. All of the sympathy lies with them because they are the victims of evil, and Lupino's heroine seems to willingly fall under Garfield's spell. Aline MacMahon and Odette Myrtil are the somewhat domineering women in their lives, although MacMahon appears only briefly which is sad considering her popularity at Warners less than 10 years before. Albert only has minor importance, even though he's an important part of the storyline. As a young male character, he's no match for Garfield's determination to manipulate and control everybody around him to achieve his own evil goal.This is a very unique crime drama because it is about the victims of crime fighting back rather than the law. When Mitchell and Qualen begin plotting their revenge, the audience can't help but hope they succeed. Garfield's villain is his most ruthless, sort of a modern day Bill Sikes who enjoys making money at other's expenses. In small roles, Bowery Boy Leo Gorcey and his father Bernard, as well as "Bewitched's" George Tobias, offer amusing color of the Brooklyn neighborhood. This is a good chance to see Leo Gorcey giving an admirable performance, because rather than playing the over-aged teenager, he's actually acting his real age for a change.Anatole Livak's direction is as crisp as the waterfront scenery and excellent photography that is downright moody at times. While some Warner Brothers street films often fall into the same archetype, "Out of the Fog" is very different and offers a fresh perspective on an all too familiar story.

Alan Trevennor Having never seen this before I recorded it off TCM more out of curiosity than expectation. Boy, was I wrong! This one really is a gem.The hugely talented Mitchell and Qualen dominate - as has already been noted by previous reviewers. Garfield is suitably nasty, but not too nasty. Lupino is believably hormonally confused between her "steady Eddie" boyfriend George (appropriately played by Eddie "Green Acres" Albert) and Garfield's devil-may-care petty gangster.Overall, it's a fairly slight story, but extremely well directed, staged and photographed. The satisfying ending merely adds the finishing touch. Terrific atmosphere somewhere between "To Have and Have Not" and some darker Capra moments, terrific acting and a great way to spend 80 minutes or so.Had this starred Bogart or Edward G Robinson, it would have been more widely recognised today for the minor classic that it undoubtedly is.