Out of the Fog (film)

Out of the Fog is a 1941 film noir directed by Anatole Litvak, starring John Garfield, Ida Lupino and Thomas Mitchell. The film was based on the play Gentle People by Irwin Shaw.

On release, the film was criticized due to changes from the play, and the box office gross was lower than expected. A contemporary review from Bosley Crowther of The New York Times described it as a heavy and dreary recital of largely synthetic woes, laced with moderate suspense and spotted here and there with humor. Writing at Bright Lights Film Journal, Alan Kohn said, As Goff, Garfield the progressive, the true common man whose miserable fate it was to be destroyed through the Hollywood Blacklist travesty reveals the depravity and fantasy of Depressionera capitalist society as he condemns all fascist forces at play in a world at war.

Source: Wikipedia