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Night People – Trailers From Hell. Nunnally Johnson hands us a well- written spy & hostage drama set in Cold War Berlin, with plenty of intrigue and good humor to boot. Hd Quality The Intern (2015) Watch. Gregory Peck is the troubled negotiator and Broderick Crawford a Yankee galoot sticking his nose where it isn’t wanted. This one has been out of reach for quite a while — and it works up some fun suspense. Night People. Blu- ray.

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Associate Producer Gerd Oswald. Written, Directed and Produced by Nunnally Johnson. Free The Unknown Girl (2017) Online. An intelligent cold war thriller about distrust and passive aggression across the East- West divide in Berlin, Nunnally Johnson’s Night People has been out of circulation for some time. I remember seeing it only on unwatchable pan- scan TV prints. It’s early Cinema. Scope and therefore at the wider 2. Night People has its share of foreign scenery but is really a close- quarters tale of diplomatic skullduggery and grim espionage.

Top Hollywood writer- producer Nunnally Johnson had a knack for popular, intelligent and progressive film hits. His screenplay is carefully crafted and he has Gerd Oswald helping him on production issues. But it’s also Johnson’s first outing as a director. When it becomes clear that Leatherby has been spirited to the Russian sector, an international incident is all but assured. Colonel Steve Van Dyke (Gregory Peck) is under immediate pressure from the State Department’s Fred Hobart (Casey Adams).

Then the kidnapped soldier’s industrialist father Charles Leatherby (Broderick Crawford) shows up, swinging his weight around, criticizing the lack of action and implying that he could secure his boy’s release by offering a simple bribe. The Colonel puts Leatherby in his place, and then invites him along to see what’s involved in such a deal. Van Dyke’s usual contact with the Russians, his opposite number in fact, appears to have . This forces Van Dyke to rely on . Hoffy was once Van Dyke’s lover; he’d like to heat that up again but she’s being standoffish. When the Colonel finally does hear of a possible deal, he’s not happy — Hoffy suggests that the Russians may trade John Leatherby for the Schindlers (Jill Esmond and Anton F. She was a spy for England and the Nazis gouged out his eyes.

Fearing they’ll be traded back to their old enemies, now working with the Russians, the Schindlers take poison. Van Dyke rushes them to the hospital and poses a question to Charles Leatherby: to get John back, how far should we go to trade with the non- enemy ?

Should we be negotiating at all? As a screenwriter Nunnally Johnson walks a fine political tightrope.

For a while we think that Night People will be about a dogged negotiator’s efforts being ruined by Broderick Crawford’s ugly American, especially when Charles Leatherby comes in swinging, ignorant and loud, throwing his weight around with the foreign press. But the story soon takes a wider viewpoint. Leatherby has a wife with a bad heart, and she’s already lost one son in the war. Call it kidnapping, hostage- taking or general harassment, the arresting of foreigners to express a political grievance has been going on since the days of Hammurabi, when emirs displayed their ire by sending only parts of people back home. Our military commander in charge of such issues in West Berlin really has his hands full with this disappearance — Leatherby senior stirs so much noise about the kidnapping that proceeding in a quiet negotiation is going to be difficult.

Van Dyke knows that the Leatherby kid was purposely targeted to provide leverage for someone the Russians want, perhaps one of their own operative captured by the U. S. There’s no East German phone he can pick up to secure John’s release, so Van Dyke has to rely on his surreptitious contacts, like the capricious Hoffy. He meets her at an outdoor plaza, but she seems unusually downcast, and resists his attempts to bring up their past romance. Berlin’s four occupational sectors were reduced to two in 1. English staying behind to lend intelligence expertise. A lot of conflicting information is floating around, and plenty of people like the Schindlers are living under assumed identities.

As it turns out, the Brits have some distressing news for Van Dyke regarding his personnel. The big plus in Night People is Nunnally Johnson’s deft screenplay, which admits that the situation is so sticky that a man in Colonel Van Dyke’s position sometimes has to play dirty, too. Johnson’s characters do a lot of talking, but it’s all highly interesting. Gregory Peck does his best to make his Colonel fallible, all but conceding defeat at least twice.

But seeing as it’s Peck we know he’ll come out on top in the end. Assisting Van Dyke in the office is secretary Ricky Cates, played by the interesting Rita Gam of The Thief and Saadia. One scene is fairly confusing — Peck is playing cards with some friends in one room, and at one point he walks into the next where Ricky appears to be in bed. Where are they? We hear that the card games take place in a Press Room somewhere, but this looks like Van Dyke’s own apartment. Could they be borrowing Ricky’s apartment? How personal a secretary is Ricky, anyway? Lighter assistance is provided by Buddy Ebsen as Van Dyke’s closest aid and dog- robber, Sgt.

The Sarge drives and fetches and provides some needed reactions without being used as an audience surrogate exposition mirror. There are A Foreign Affair– like reminders here and there that the GI’s in Berlin can’t all behave like choirboys, such as the fact that Mc. Colloch apparently has various girlfriends stashed around town. Much of the second half of the picture unspools in an army hospital, where the sergeant continually ducks into a staff room to check on a baseball game, or trades quips with Major Foster (Walter Abel), a staff doctor who colludes with Van Dyke in hoodwinking the Russkis. Foster spends his time cadging cigarettes from people, a gimmick that writer Johnson makes seem fresh.

Frau Schindler is a sweet lady seen only in wide shots, playing the piano to earn a living. It looks like she’d rather live in poverty with her sightless husband than accept help from the English, for whom she reportedly spied; whatever the story, it doesn’t put the English in a good light.

She’s played by Jill Esmond, who twenty years earlier starred in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Skin Game. Young German actress Marianne Koch (A Fistful of Dollars, Spotlight on a Murderer) looks like a teenager. The interesting Anita Bj. She looks more attractive in her best- known movie Miss Julie (1.

Nunnally Johnson suggests that nasty ex- Nazi intelligence men are working for Russia, a claim that conflicts with East German claims that the West was happily employing ex- SS and intelligence men from the former Reich. Peter van Eyck, a Hollywood veteran even during the war, is Sergei Petrochine, an efficient operative on the Colonel’s staff. Van Eyck’s Sergei speaks and acts like a German. What’s with that name, anyway? Since several other people in the course of the story use ? We also wonder about the fact that Van Dyke and the diplomats never talk about dealing with East Germany, only the Soviets. The Soviets are no doubt genuinely hostile adversaries, especially after the standoff of the Berlin Airlift.

But Night People all but denies the existence of East Germany as anything but occupied Soviet territory. Of such things was the Cold War made. If everybody could just waited 4. Berlin Wall to go up and then come down again, all this rancor could have been avoided. Most spy movies use Checkpoint Charlie between East and West Berlin as the preferred place to conduct a hostage swap. This show ends with an East German truck coming all the way to a U.

S. Army hospital. We assume that simply overpowering the guards and seizing John Leatherby is not a good idea if the tense international peace is to be maintained.