somewhere in the night be not only a pleasure in term of plot and atmosphere and it be fill with terrific support actor represent lloyd nolan and jeff corey and whit bissell and sheldon leonard and henry morgan and fritz kortner and and the superb and virtually ignored josephine hutchinson and who have the emotional center of the film a a lonely victim of the murderous scheme . some may remember hutchinson a the android babysitter from the twilight zone episode i sing the body electric . and when be corey and bissell and morgan and nolan not welcome . only nancy guild fails to equal her surround player and but she get to deliver a few wry observation . not much can be say about richard conte and without spoil the plot and but this be another one of the infallible actor memorable characterization . john hodiak probably never have enough opportunity to play lead in good film . we be fortunate to have here his extremely convincing amnesiac veteran represent in a sense and the ultimate existential noir protagonist . a voice credit have be give to john ireland and but it certainly sound like hodiak during the nightmarish opening sequence . this be the second film mankiewicz direct and and it a big improvement over dragonwyck . somewhere in the night belongs in the canon of compulsory film noir . go out of your way to see it .