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"Adolescent calme et sans histoire, George La Main assiste un soir à une punition terrible qu'inflige Al Judge, personnage haut placé dans la presse, à son père, Andy La Main, qui semble consentant. George s'empare d'une arme et erre à travers la ville pour retrouver le tortionnaire. Au cours de cette traque et de cette longue nuit, il va découvrir peu à peu certaines vérités, perdre ses illusions et laisser derrière lui son adolescence.--[Wikipedia (français)]."
"George LeMain's world is thrown into turmoil and doubt when his father Andy (Preston Foster) offers no resistance as he is beaten by mobster and standover man Al Judge (Howard St. John)...Enraged, he disappears into the city's underbelly to settle the score and prove his manhood. On his journey he meets an alcoholic college professor (Philip Bourneuf) and finds himself out of his depth among the shady characters he encounters. At his first opportunity for vengeance George squares up but can't bring himself to close the deal on his tormentor and thus loses him to the night. His pride shattered along with his nerve, George realises that his hunt has only just begun."
"The big night: "A sensitive 17-year-old-boy watches in shattered disbelief as the father he hero-worships tamely submits to a brutal thrashing at the hands of a crippled sports reporter. The boy then goes off into the night to settle the score" -- The sleeping tiger: "A psychiatrist, Clive Esmond, catches young gunman, Frank Clemens, breaking into his house. Rather than send him to prison, he invites the delinquent to stay at his home as a social guinea pig" -- Container."
"Teenager George La Main is forced to witness his father Andy receive a savage beating from sports columnist Al Judge. The lad steals his father's gun and sets out for revenge. Along the way he encounters sympathetic boxing fan Lloyd Cooper, Lloyd's worldly girlfriend Julie Rostina, and Julie's sweet and sympathetic sister Marion, who tries to convince George that vengeance is never the answer."@en
"Une nuit, un adolescent de seize ans traque, à travers la ville, un journaliste sportif qui a battu son père lors d'un règlement de compte... Un grand film qui dépeint une jeunesse fragile et tourmentée..."
"After witnessing the merciless beating of his father at the hands of a sports columnist, teenager George La Main steals his father's gun and sets out to get revenge."
""For Georgie La Main's seventeenth birthday his father Andy, a local bar owner, gives him a cake, however, Georgie is distracted by the fact that Andy's girl friend Frances is not there to celebrate with them. Soon after, a crippled news columnist Al Judge walks into the bar and orders Andy to strip, beating him viciously with his cane. Georgie wants to intercede, but Flanagan, the bartender, holds him back. After Judge leaves, Georgie demands to know why his father would let Judge humiliate him, but Andy tells him to forget about it. Later, while his father is resting, Georgie puts on his father's suit, tie and hat and leaves the building with a gun he found in the cash register. Stopping at the [stationery] store, Georgie is asked by owner Mr. Erlich to sit with his baby. In the baby's room Georgie poses in front of the mirror with the gun, challenging anyone who thinks he is still a 'wet-nosed kid.' The baby cries and, as he comforts it, Mrs. Erlich enters and compliments Georgie on how well he handles the baby. As Georgie leaves, Mr. Erlich comments on how smart Andy was for not fighting back. Georgie is frustrated with the Erlichs' responses and wanders off to a professional boxing match. While in line he sells his second ticket to a stranger, and another man posing as a policeman accuses Georgie of scalping. Georgie hands over the 'evidence, ' the money from the ticket, to the conman. In the auditorium Georgie sits beside the man who purchased the ticket, Dr. Lloyd Cooper, a journalism teacher, who tells him the incident was a ruse. Borrowing Cooper's binoculars, Georgie scans the crowd for Judge but loses sight of him. Georgie tells Cooper he wants to find Judge, and Cooper leads him to Judge's hangout. Georgie loses Judge in a run-in with one of his thugs, Peckinpaugh, and Cooper, now drunk, persuades him to go to the Florida Club, a late night jazz club, instead of continuing the chase. At the club he meets Cooper's girl friend, Julie Rostina, and Georgie takes her to the dance floor, but after a few awkward steps, Julie leads him back to the table. Julie and Cooper dance, and the soft voice of a black jazz singer evokes visions of the birthday cake in Georgie's thoughts. When they are seated again, Julie tells Cooper that her sister Marion has returned to their house and Cooper reminds her that he dislikes Marion. The three leave the club, passing the singer, and Georgie tries to compliment her but instead makes a racial slur, which he immediately regrets. Later, Georgie wakes up on a couch in Cooper's apartment and meets Marion, who has secretly hidden his gun. When Georgie asks Marion why she dislikes Cooper, she replies that her father knew Cooper was bad with one look. Georgie then tells her about how brave he thought his father was but how he distrusts him now. Searching for his gun, Georgie assumes Marion has been placating him with attention and kisses in order to hide it. He finds it and goes to the newspaper office where an employee gladly gives him Judge's address when he learns Georgie has a vendetta against Judge. Georgie then barges into Judge's apartment and, holding him at gunpoint, asks where Frances is. Judge calmly replies that Frances was his sister, who killed herself a week previously because Andy would not marry her. Georgie does not believe him but decides he cannot shoot him because Judge believes his own story. As Georgie drops the gun and turns to leave, Judge grabs it and turns it on him. The two struggle and the gun goes off, wounding Judge. Georgie then runs to Cooper's house and confides in Marion that he cannot tell his father how much he loves him. Cooper wakes up and, after hearing Georgie's confession about Judge, kicks him out. Georgie returns home and the police arrive to take his father, but Georgie screams that he killed Judge and reveals the gun. Because Judge has only suffered a powder burn, the police try to talk Georgie into handing over the gun. Not knowing who to trust, Georgie backs into the bar, while his father explains that he could not marry Frances because he was still married to Georgie's mother and tells Georgie how much he cares for him. Andy explains that Georgie's mother, who Georgie thought was dead, ran off with another man. Georgie hands over the gun to the authorities and asks his father why he did not tell him. Andy replies that it would have made Georgie hate her. As the police take them both away, Flanagan closes the door and removes the birthday cake, still sitting on the bar from the night before"--AFI catalog, 1951-1960."@en

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"Big night (Motion picture : 1951)"@en
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