Night Into Morning

Night Into Morning is a 1951 film drama starring Ray Milland and Nancy Davis.

His wife and child are killed. Ainley, devastated, becomes morose and turns to drink, causing Mead, a war widow, and best friend Tom Lawry John Hodiak, her betrothed, to consider these telltale signs that the professor could be suicidal.A popular athlete on campus has failed an exam and might not graduate, so his girlfriend Dottie Dawn Addams appeals to the professor to give him a second chance. A drunken Ainley Ray Milland tells her remaining unmarried might spare them both future heartbreak. He then crashes a car, terrifying the girl and resulting in his arrest. ........

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