StunnaKrypto Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Iseerphia All that we are seeing on the screen is happening with real people, real action sequences in the background, forcing the eye to watch as if we were there.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Benedito Dias Rodrigues Thomas Mitchell and John Qualen stolen the show....Ida Lupino and John Garfield are top billing but the the fishermen are the heart of this movie,they are good and funny....the noir atmosphere is fantastic....the plot is well paved by these magnificent actors and became a movie to discover for those who really love and enjoy a good picture!!!Resume:First watch: 2017 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 8

Neil Doyle So said The N.Y. Times in reviewing OUT OF THE FOG and I absolutely agree with their verdict.JOHN GARFIELD has seldom played a nastier character than he does here as a shake-down hood getting every penny out of his racketeering business from Brooklyn fishermen THOMAS MITCHELL and JOHN QUALEN, and playing around with Mitchell's daughter, IDA LUPINO.None of the characters are likable, so there's really no one to root for. Ida Lupino's sudden infatuation with the lowdown heel and her willingness to go along with his plans makes no sense when she's clearly a daughter concerned about her father's welfare. Qualen plays a cowardly follower who can never make up his mind about anything (and does it well, by the way). And Thomas Mitchell is a stubborn old man who is finally able to turn the tables on Garfield in an unexpected way.But the script is one-dimensional gangster stuff with some very good actors given some very banal material to work with. Based on an Irwin Shaw play, it's old-fashioned in concept and tedious in execution even though the director is Anatole Litvak who clearly didn't have his heart in this story.Garfield and Lupino are fine actors who've done much better work in other films. Both of them are guilty of some heavy overacting here, especially Lupino whenever she loses her temper.

groening-2 I found "Out of the Fog" to be a dreary film, in part because it takes place entirely at night (in a Hollywood studio's version of the slums of Brooklyn), and in part because its take on human nature is bleak.John Garfield, as a small-time gangster, offers up no redeeming qualities; he's pure evil in a smarmy sort of way, and so not very interesting. According to TCM's Robert Osborne, Humphrey Bogart was considered for this role. Though Garfield was strong in other movies, I believe Bogie would have brought more to the table in this one than we see from Garfield.Ida Lupino as the working class girl who wants to see a bigger, brighter world, falls equally short. She's sweet and kind to her father, yet dates Garfield's Goff character even after learning that Goff is shaking down dear old Dad. Her acting fails to reconcile these two facts (although the screenplay may equally be to blame).Though "Out of the Fog" apparently had its roots in socialist perspective, it comes off as patronizing; the working class folk should be happy with their lot, it suggests, and when their pleas for help are ignored by their government (represented by the court here), their only ally is the working class cop who walks the local beat."Out of the Fog" fails as a film noir crime drama and as a morality tale. The ending is happy -- though everyone we're supposed to care about returns to their bleak existence -- but it is an unsatisfying resolution.

sol (Some Spoilers) Petty shake-down artist Howard Goff, John Garfield, has everyone on the Sheepshead Bay docks terrorized in paying him protection money to keep their boats from having an unfortunate accident, like Goff setting them on fire. Getting old man Johnah Goodwin, Thomas Mitchell, and his partner Olaf Johnson, John Qualen, to pay him a $5.00 in weekly protection fee wasn't enough for the arrogant and greedy Goff. He also wanted Jonah's pretty daughter Stella, Ida Lupino, as well to be his woman and that got under the skin of Stella's long time boyfriend George, Eddie Albert, who's been waiting for years, until he saved up enough money as a fish auctioneer,to marry her.Stella for her part kind of liked the "I take whatever I want" attitude of Goff as well as his taking her out to fancy night-clubs to dance and dink the night away with him. She completely overlooked that he was shaking down her father and even worked him over with a rubber hose when he dared to go to the police for help. Goff has both Jonah and his wimpy friend and partner Olaf over a barrel in having them sign a $1,000 loan, that Goff never loaned them, to cover his weekly shakedowns of them them. The two come to the one and only conclusion that they could come up with in getting Goff out of their lives. That's to do to him what he's always threatening to do to them. Rub out the thieving good for nothing swine and do it in a way that it looks accidental!Based on the Irwin Shaw play "The Gentle People" the movie shows what was meant by the biblical saying that "The meek shall inherit the earth". Where in this case it's their fishing boats on the Sheepshead Bay docks. Goff a one man protection racket took what he wanted and feared no one not even the cops. Who in the movie was a 63 year-old arthritic looking officer Magruder, Robert Homans. Magruder in the movie is seen having trouble running, as well as walking, and was in danger of slipping on the already slippery docks.It's when both Jonah and Olaf went to the police for help and all they got for it was laughs from the judge Jonah & Olaf came to the bitter conclusion that they'll have to take the law into heir own hands to put an end to Goff's reign of terror against them and their fellow fishermen. Fortunately for them it was fate that intervened in their favor and took care of Goff, in a very unusual way, that kept Jonah & Olaf lifelong law abiding citizens from breaking the law to do it.Stella who was playing her deeply in love with her and not that bright boyfriend George for a sucker didn't at all come out smelling like a rose, or violet, in the movie. Even though George always forgave her every time that she screwed, figuratively not literally, him in two-timing George for Goff. The ending got me a little wheezy in George taking Stella back and at the same time George being such a jerk that he as much didn't feel that he was at all betrayed. In that Stella who already screwed him once would screw him a second or third or forth time as well!