Peereddi I was totally surprised at how great this film.You could feel your paranoia rise as the film went on and as you gradually learned the details of the real situation.

Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Spikeopath Out of the Fog is directed by Anatole Litvak and collectively adapted to screenplay by Robert Macaulay, Robert Rosen and Jerry Wald from the play The Gentle People written by Irwin Shaw. It stars John Garfield, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell, John Qualen and Eddie Albert. Music is by Heinz Roemheld and cinematography by James Wong Howe. The Brooklyn wharf-side is the setting for this melodrama tinted with noirish themes and players. The area is Sheepshead Bay and the local citizens are a gathering of people stuck in a rut they seem incapable of getting out of. Old gentlemen dreamers planning to buy a big boat and sail off to sunnier climes, the local lovely who's in a dull relationship with a dullard – who craves for something more spicy. Other patrons of Sheepshead just while away the hours playing cards in the local restaurant - that's the peak of their excitement, and others are just slaves to the grindstone. Then there's Jacob Goff (Garfield), a chiseller and racketeer, a man who stomps around the wharf like the cock of the hen-house, gathering protection money or casually setting fire to the boats of anyone who dares not to pay their dues… There's a wonderfully atmospheric feel to Out of the Fog, due to the claustrophobic setting of the story and Wong Howe's moody photography. Characterisations are enhanced by some well versed scripting that puts lyrical dialogue into the mouths of the principal players. Goff is the archetypal charming rogue, with a killer smile and sexy danger oozing from his pores, it's no wonder that frustrated Stella Goodwin (Lupino) spies an opportunity to escape her humdrum existence. Hell! Goff even does card tricks. But of course he is a sort of devil in disguise, or fascism in disguise as it happens, and as he tips the lives upside down of the Sheepshead residents, it brings threats and violence to this once quiet little waterfront. 1941 was a key year for film noir, with the likes of The Maltese Falcon and I Wake Up Screaming lighting the touch paper of a film making style that would burn brightly for the next 20 years. Out of the Fog has made its may into some noir publications, which is understandable given the essence of the story and the presence of noir legends Lupino and Garfield, but it's not what I would call essential film noir by some margin. However, it's a comfortable recommendation to like minded noirphiles regardless. 7/10

Petrified_2000 First some background, this movie takes place in Sheepshead Bay . It's NYC's fishing port located in Brooklyn. Today Sheepshead bay has numerous Party and Charter boats that recreational fishermen fish off.This movie is a wonderful movie with a great cast. Thomas Mitchell and Ida Lupino and John Garfield were perfectly cast. To someone who fished out of Sheepshead bay, this movie makes a lot of sense to me. When the actors mention local places I know where their talking about Nice movie all the way around. Another good movie with Lupino and Garfield was the Sea Wolf, also made in 1941. That's another movie that should be watched. Thank goodness for Turner Classic movies, it's a treat watching those great movies. The movies today are for the most part garbage.

wes-connors In Brooklyn, restless telephone operator Ida Lupino (as Stella) begins seeing racketeer John Garfield (as Harold Goff) while he uses terror tactics to extort $5.00 a week from her tailor father Thomas Mitchell (as Jonah Goodwin) and his Swedish immigrant friend John Qualen (as Olaf Knudsen). The men enjoy fishing in Sheepshead Bay, where Mr. Garfield burns boats owned by those who refuse to pay. Even after discovering Garfield is a violent gangster, Ms. Lupino remains aroused; he is much more exciting than milquetoast fiancé Eddie Albert (as George Watkins)...One of the problems with "Out of the Fog" is that the characters get too little scripted explanation for some of their actions (and lack thereof). God intervenes. Lupino helps by conveying slighted sexual desire. The film is artfully directed and photographed by dependable Anatole Litvak with James Wong Howe. The support team is in good form, with Mr. Mitchell and Mr. Qualen claiming most of the attention. Others featured include series regulars George Tobias ("Bewitched"), Bernard and Leo Gorcey ("The Bowery Boys"), and the admirable but underused Aline MacMahon.****** Out of the Fog (6/14/41) Anatole Litvak ~ Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Thomas Mitchell, John Qualen

Robert J. Maxwell "Out of the Fog." The classic title for a noir, which this is not. Instead it's basically a stagy story of two quiet elderly men (John Qualen and Thomas Mitchell) who enjoy taking their outboard motor boat out of Sheepshead Bay for night-time fishing. Mitchell has a nagging wife (Aline McMahon) and a bored, impatient daughter (Ida Lupino) who works for the phone company. Both men have dreams of getting away from it all, buying a large boat and getting out into the Gulf stream, where it's always daylight. (Here, it's always night, and always foggy.) Enter the small-time extortionist, John Garfield, who hits the two guys up for five dollars a week for "protection" of their small boat. Garfield also begins squiring around Ida Lupino, throwing his money around, bringing her orchids ("five dollars for flowers that don't smell") and alienating her from her honest boyfriend, Eddie Albert. Garfield learns from Lupino that Mitchell has saved up $190 towards that big fishing boat, and he extorts that too.Mitchell and Quaylen plot Garfield's death in a Russian spritz bad in Brooklyn, while Kropotkin, George Tobias, carries on cheerfully and endlessly in the background about how he's just become "a bankrupt." In the end, neither Mitchell nor Qualen can murder the guy, who falls overboard and dies accidentally, conveniently leaving behind his wallet full of ill-gotten dough.The play was written by Irwin Shaw, who has left a legacy of some neat short stories and novels. (Read "The Girls in Their Summer Dresses" at once.) Many of the cast and crew came from the Group Theater, a fashionable leftist organization at the time, but if anyone can sniff out a hint of communism here he must be a bloodhound or a paranoid. In the play, the two old guys managed to actually murder the thoroughly obnoxious Garfield but in the film the code wouldn't permit it.Nobody will win any medals for this production but it's tightly written and professionally acted. Or -- let's put it this way -- if you liked Sidney Kingsley's "Dead End," you ought to enjoy this one. It even has one of the Dead End Kids in it, playing a waiter.Particularly enjoyable is the brief scene in the Russian bath, with George Tobias, whose monologue is really pretty funny, and its boisterous comedy is refreshing in this rather quiet, low-key tale of crime and adaptation.