Clash by Night

Clash by NightMae Doyle is a good time girl, but now times are bad. Weary of too much booze and too many men, she returns to her girlhood home, the fishing village of Monterey, California. There she finds security as the wife of a devoted and dull fisherman. and passion in the arms of his provocative best friend. Film noir master Fritz Lang (The Big Heat, Ministry of Fear ) directs four towering talents Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Douglas, Robert Ryan and rising star

The first of nine films to costar Cagney and O'Brien

getting himself engaged to an imperious beauty

can be full of romantic surprises

Paul Burke (12 O'Clock High)

her sex and her empire to become Catherine the Great

Thirteen years before Adventure in Baltimore

with their help

Alan Ladd stars as a pacifist on a fighting ship whose business is killing in The Deep Six

a wisecracking widow (Marjorie Main) teams up with Malone (James Whitmore) when they're framed for his client's murder

he is arrested for Bernice's murder and Alice is returned to her mother (and Florence's new husband) in England

combine in this fast-moving film that's been likened to MGM's Manhattan Melodrama

But they're just a warm-up for the leads to tap one number into immortality: Begin the Beguine