Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Memorable, crazy movie

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

NOCTURNE is a little-known film noir about an offbeat detective investigating the apparent suicide of a piano player who finds himself drawn into a world of seductive femme fatales. To be fair, the plot is extremely ordinary and matter-of-fact, but the stylish direction and some winning performances help to lift it at times.NOCTURNE peaks early with an absolutely brilliant opening sequence which has style to spare and which ends with a exceptional twist. Nothing that comes after can top that, sadly, but some witty, sharp-edged dialogue helps to propel the at-times-boring narrative along. The biggest downfall is the saggy middle, in which the detective interviews various women without getting anywhere, but it does pick up for the mildly exciting climax.I really enjoyed George Raft's laconic turn as the protagonist; despite being a detective employed by the local police department, he feels like the typical gumshoe with a ready wisecrack for any situation. The female cast are attractive and alluring, and prove equally sharp-witted when the need arises. NOCTURNE's mid-section is just too sluggish to be able to rate this as a good film, but it's worth tracking down as a rarity that passes the time adequately enough.

Even though the death of an epicene Cole Porter like composer played memorably by Edward Ashley at the beginning of Nocturne is ruled a suicide, Detective George Raft ain't buying it. The man has a wall full of headshot portraits of various women he's discarded over the years and anyone who loves them and leaves them like that is bound to make some enemies. The answer lies among those women, all of whom Ashley called Dolores.George Raft was always best in noir and gangster films whether he was the good guy or the bad. He was limited in his range, but within that range no one was better.A pair of sisters provide part of the answer. Both Lynn Bari and Virginia Huston were involved with Ashley at some point. But they're only part of the puzzle.One of the best things about Nocturne is about how the killer had the police lab people draw the wrong conclusions about the murder. It's why they label Ashley's death a suicide.If Nocturne were made today, Ashley's character would be openly gay and those pictures on the wall would be rent boys. Might make a great story for the Donald Strachey gay detective books and films that Chad Allen has starred in.A very clever noir film, let's see a gay remake of this.

George Raft does a superb job as "Police Lt. Joe Warne" investigating whether a man committed suicide or was murdered. What I liked about this film was the way it made Lt. Warne seem so human even though he was a hard-as-nails police detective as well. Truth be known, it's not often you watch a tough detective who lives with his mother. I also liked the performance of Lynn Bari who played the main suspect named "Francis Ransom". Now, since this is a mystery I won't spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it, but I will say that if a person enjoys a good film-noir then they might want to check this one out some day. I'd also like to say that I realize there are some folks who don't like movies filmed in black and white. I understand that but frankly they're missing a whole lot of good movies if they use that as a reason not to watch them. This film is one of them.

This little "film noir" seems to have it's mind on witty dialog rather than sensible plot line. George Raft plays a junior partner Detective who sees murder when his partner lazily sees suicide. He pursues the case, because it haunts him, but are never told why. He focuses in on one woman, who, as in most of these kinds of movie, is meant to make us wonder whether she's evil or innocent. Of course he falls for her, but being Dudley Do Right, the "case must be solved." SPOILER. Plot problems. For example our intrepid Det. manages to track down 9 women in 2 days, with only a photograph and no first or last names! The answer is revealed later in the movie but in the wrong time line: He finds the women, then we see him finding the photographer's studio name on the photograph. We keep being told that the method of making the murder look like suicide is "mysterious" when any kid could figure an obvious way immediately (shoot the guy close up and wrap his fingers around gun). The method when it is revealed is interesting but as another obvious way is already there it doesn't come as a "aha!" moment.When an obvious suspect is revealed by her facial expression when the "Nocturne" is played, the audience sees it right away but our dufus Det. doesn't. So now the audience knows and watches dufus wander around looking for the wrong suspect. Was this deliberate?A main character is a big hulk that follows Raft around for most of the day, and it takes that long for Raft to see him, when the audience has him pegged right away. It is never explained why he does what he does, other than that he is a sidekick to the eventually revealed killer. SPOILER ENDRaft is his usual wooden self, and he has a nice way with lines. He lives with his mother in an interesting side story that could have been used to tell us more about why Raft's character is so close to the edge.