Girls in the Night

[1][2] The film revolves around a family whose efforts to move into a better neighborhood are suddenly hampered when their son is accused of killing a blind man.Hannah frustrates her boyfriend by agreeing to a date with a hoodlum named Irv Kellener, which causes a fight between the men and makes the evil schemer Vera Schroeder jealous.Chuck and his girlfriend Georgia, who does seductive dances to entice men to throw coins to her, become so desperate that they steal from a beggar who is pretending to be blind.François Truffaut wrote that the film "leaves us in an intermediary state between surprise and delight," that "each scene [...] makes us think that it was the one that the author treated the most lovingly," and that "the directing of the actors (all newcomers) is perfect."[4] Critic Mike Bear wrote in Letterboxd that the film was an "unusual noir" that "combines juvenile delinquency, family values, yearning for a better life, murder, robbery, and blackmail [and] a homely girl they all call 'Ugly.
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