The Long Wait
The Long Wait is a 1954 film based on the 1951 novel of the same title by mystery writer Mickey Spillane.
Film Noir An Encyclopedic Reference to the American Style by Alain Silver and Elizabeth Ward writes The inclusion of amnesia, giving the hero a sense of hopelessness compounded by the frustration of his loss of identity, instills a distinct existential bias into McBrides search. This attitude combines with a pervading sense of corruption and dehumanization to give The Long Wait a fatalistic noir ethos.
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