| Home Before Dark | |
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| Directed by | Mervyn LeRoy |
| Screenplay by | Eileen Bassing Robert Bassing |
| Based on | Home Before Dark 1957 novel by Eileen Bassing |
| Produced by | Mervyn LeRoy |
| Starring | Jean Simmons Dan O'Herlihy Rhonda Fleming Efrem Zimbalist Jr. |
| Cinematography | Joseph F. Biroc |
| Edited by | Philip W. Anderson |
| Music by | Ray Heindorf |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros |
Release date |
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Running time | 136 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.4 million[1] |
| Box office | $1.9 million (US/Canada rentals)[2] |
Home Before Dark is a 1958 American drama film directed and produced by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Jean Simmons, Dan O'Herlihy, Rhonda Fleming, and Efrem Zimbalist Jr.[3] The screenplay was written by Eileen and Robert Bassing, based on the novel by Eileen Bassing. The title song was written by Sammy Cahn with music by Jimmy McHugh.
The film, and Simmons' performance in particular, attracted positive critical comment. Pauline Kael of the New Yorker wrote, "Jean Simmons gives a reserved, beautifully modulated performance,"[4] and film critic Philip French believed it contained "perhaps her finest performance."[5]
- ^ Box Office Information for Home Before Dark. IMDb. Retrieved April 3, 2014.
- ^ "Top Grossers of 1958". Variety. 7 January 1959. p. 48.
- ^ "Home Before Dark". Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved March 3, 2016.
- ^ Kael, 5001 Nights at the Movies
- ^ Screen legends Philip French, The Guardian, 2008