

The Night Runner
Are mental patients turned loose too soon?
A mental patient with a violent past is released from the institution, against the advice of his doctors, and sent back to his old neighborhood. Was he released too soon?
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- English
- murder
- mental patient
- mental illness
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- TheatricalNR2 Apr 1957
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The Night Runner was released on 2 April 1957.
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CinemaSerf
11/13/2023
I can't say I am too familiar with Ray Danton, but his dashing good looks and considered performance go some way to keeping this sad and complicated melodrama out of the doldrums. We know from the start that he has been released from a psychiatric hospital (initially against the advice of his doctor who was rather brow-beaten into changing his mind by his board colleagues). It is fairly clear that this man, "Roy", is…
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