Night Unto Night (WB 1949)
“An epileptic scientist and a neurotic widow learn to accept their personal tragedies”
There’s also a dinner party during a hurricane during which Reagan has to be talked out of suicide.
Featuring Ronald Reagan, Broderick Crawford (playing against type as a artist–while All the King’s Men was still in theatres), and directed by Don Siegel.
Wait, what? He told us that Personal Space would launch his acting career!
“Actually, notwithstanding its pretensions to profundity, the story unfolds on a note of romance and emotion rather than of genuine intellectuality. It is, essentially, a woman’s picture.”
I don’t think Charles L. Franke really wants to open the subject of pretentiousness. Also, dude, tag your spoilers. (Directing that at Franke, not the OP.)