On this day in movie history - Nocturne (1946)

Nocturne

directed by Edwin L. Marin,

written by Jonathan Latimer,

based on a story by Roland Brown and Frank Fenton,

was released in the United States on October 29, 1946.

Music by Leigh Harline.

Cast:

George Raft, Lynn Bari, Virginia Huston, Joseph Pevney, Myrna Dell, Edward Ashley, Walter Sande, Mabel Paige, Bern Hoffman, Queenie Smith, Virginia Keiley, Mack Gray, Lilian Bond, Rudy Robles, Greta Granstedt, Carol Forman, William Challee.

On this day in movie history - Black Widow (movie & novel):

Black Widow

directed by Nunnally Johnson,

written by Nunnally Johnson, Hugh Wheeler, Richard W. Webb / Patrick Quentin,

based on the novel Black Widow a.k.a Fatal Woman by Patrick Quentin,

released in the United States on October 27, 1954.

Music by Leigh Harline.

Cast:

Ginger Rogers, Van Heflin, Gene Tierney, George Raft, Peggy Ann Garner, Reginald Gardiner, Virginia Leith, Otto Kruger, Cathleen Nesbitt, Skip Homeier, Hilda Simms, Mabel Albertson, Edward Astran, Bea Benaderet, Mary Benoit, Nesdon Booth, Paul Bradley, Harry Carter, Paul Cristo, Oliver Cross, Frances Curry, Richard H. Cutting, Anthony De Mario, Franklyn Farnum, Dick Gordon, Robert Haines, Kenner G. Kemp, Paul Kruger, Robert Locke Lorraine, Virginia Maples, Harold Miller, Forbes Murray, Monty O'Grady, Leoda Richards, Loretta Russell, Cosmo Sardo, Jeffrey Sayre, Aaron Spelling, Bert Stevens, James Stone, Arthur Tovey, Michael Vallon, Geraldine Wall, Pat White, Frank Wilcox, Wilson Wood.

Recommended reading:

Black Widow

a.k.a Fatal Woman

by Patrick Quentin.

ASIN: B00231R78W

Published by Simon & Schuster.

Published 1952.

Description:

Duluth, a Broadway producer and amateur detective, is baffled when his wife, Iris, discovers the body of Nanny Ordway, an aspiring writer he had recently befriended. 

On this day in movie history - Midnight Club (1933)

Midnight Club

directed by Alexander Hall and George Somnes,

written by Leslie Charteris and Seton I. Miller,

based on the 1931 short story Gangster’s Glory by E. Phillips Oppenheim,

was released in the United States on July 29, 1933.

Music by W. Franke Harling and Howard Jackson.

Cast:

Clive Brook, George Raft, Helen Vinson, Alison Skipworth, Sir Guy Standing, Alan Mowbray, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Forrester Harvey, Ethel Griffies, Teru Shimada, Charles Coleman, Billy Bevan, Jean De Briac, Leo White, Rita Carlyle, Dennis O’Keefe.

On this day in movie history - They Drive by Night (1940)

They Drive by Night

directed by Raoul Walsh,

written by Jerry Wald and Richard Macaulay,

based on the novel Long Haul by A. I. Bezzerides,

was released in the United States on July 26, 1940.

Music by Adolph Deutsch.

Cast:

George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Gale Page, Alan Hale, Roscoe Karns, John Litel, George Tobias, Henry O’Neill, Charles Halton, Paul Hurst, John Ridgely, George Lloyd, Joyce Compton, Charles Wilson, Pedro Regas, Norman Willis, Joe Devlin, William Haade, Vera Lewis, John Hamilton, Eddie Acuff, Howard Hickman, Lillian Yarbo.

On this day in movie history - Race Street (1948)

Race Street

directed by Edwin L. Marin,

written by Martin Rackin,

was released in the United States on June 22, 1948.

Based on the story Race Street by Maurice Davis, originally published in Turf and Sport Digest (1945).

Music by Roy Webb.

Cast:

George Raft, William Bendix, Marilyn Maxwell, Frank Faylen, Harry Morgan, Gale Robbins, Cully Richards, Mack Gray, Russell Hicks, Tom Keene, William Forrest, James Nolan, George Turner, Richard Benedict, Dean White, Freddie Steele.

On this day in movie history - Loan Shark (1952)

Loan Shark

directed by Seymour Friedman,

written by Eugene Ling and Martin Rackin,

based on a story by Martin Rackin,

was released in the United States on May 23, 1952.

Music by Heinz Roemheld.

Cast:

George Raft, Dorothy Hart, Paul Stewart, John Hoyt, Helen Westcott, Henry Slate, Russell Johnson, Margia Dean, Benny Baker, Lawrence Dobkin, Robert Bice, Ralph Brooks, Claire Carleton, Virginia Carroll, Russell Custer, Jack Daley, Mike Donovan, George Eldredge, Ross Elliott, Rudy Germane, Dick Gordon, Jack Gordon, Herschel Graham, Joe Hinds, Robert Karnes, Robert Lawson, Charles Meredith, Spring Mitchell, Hans Moebus, William H. O'Brien, Frank O'Connor, William 'Bill' Phillips, William Phipps, Mike Ragan, Keith Richards, John Roy, Brick Sullivan, William Tannen, Harlan Warde, Robert B. Williams, Barbara Wooddell.