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Out of the Fog Overview:

Out of the Fog (1941) was a Crime - Drama Film directed by Anatole Litvak and produced by Hal B. Wallis and Henry Blanke.

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Classic Films in Focus: OUT OF THE FOG (1941)

By Jennifer Garlen on Nov 7, 2022 From Virtual Virago

Director Anatole Litvak's Out of the Fog (1941) delivers on the promised atmosphere, with fog heavy piers and dark alleys providing a moody setting for this story of Brooklyn's waterfront working class, but the tone veers away from true noir thanks to the sympathetic and often very funny characters ... Read full article

Out of the Fog (1941)

By Beatrice on Jun 16, 2014 From Flickers in Time

Out of the Fog Directed by Anatole Litvak Written by Robert Rosson, Jerry Wald, and Richard Macauley from the play “Gentle People” by Irwin Shaw 1941/USA Warner Bros First viewing/Warner Archive DVD This proto-noir is a little stage-bound and heavy handed but I enjoyed it for the perform... Read full article

Out of the Fog

By RBuccicone on Apr 28, 2011 From MacGuffin Movies

Out of the Fog (1941)      Is it possible Ida Lupino was once a young woman? Her mature, cynical roles suggest that the dame skipped over any vulnerable portion of life and went straight for adulthood. In Out of the Fog, however, Lupino seems to shift between her usual tough gal and a girl on th... Read full article

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Out of the Fog Quotes:

Igor Propotkin: All men are created free and equal, so it says in the books. Who am I equal to? Nobody. Throw away the books.
Jonah Goodwin: She's fifteen minutes younger than the Roman Empire.
Olaf Johnson: A man with the brain of a bank president!
Olaf Johnson: The man that collects the money always comes.
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Out of the Fog Facts
Humphrey Bogart was originally chosen to play Harold Goff. However, Ida Lupino had just finished shooting They Drive by Night and High Sierra with Bogart, and they had not gotten along. Lupino protested, and because she'd had a bigger name than Bogart at the time, she got her way, forcing an angry Bogart to shoot off a telegram to Jack L. Warner asking, "When did Ida Lupino start casting films at your studio?"
Because Anatole Litvak was a Russian Communist, the leftist slant to "Out of the Fog" stood out to the people at the Hays office, though given the historical context to the times in which this movie was made, it is obviously more anti-Nazi than pro-communist. Nonetheless, the Hays office just had to have their finger in the pie and would not allow the protagonists to kill off Harold Goff, as they had in every performance of the original story, Irwin Shaw's play "The Gentle People," and John Garfield's character had to die accidentally, giving the ending an interesting twist, which, as some critics noted, made the story even better.
For this film, which was based on Irwin Shaw's play "The Gentle People", nearly all of the characters' names were changed from the play.
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