The Long Night is a 1947 American film noir crime-drama directed by Anatole Litvak and produced by RKO Pictures.

She tells him about how she was picked out of the audience one night and brought on stage to take part in the act, and was then pursued by Max, who sought a relationship.

Jo Ann and Charlene both have feelings for Joe but leave him mystified, particularly when both appear to have received exactly the same brooch from Max as a gift.

The more worldly-wise Charlene suggests she believed Max's line at first too, but she now has a whole display card of them marked at a price of 85 cents each.

When RKO acquired the distribution rights to Le jour se lève in preparation for remaking it as The Long Night, they also sought to buy up all available prints of the original film and destroy them.

For a time, it was thought that the French film had been lost completely, but copies of it re-appeared in the 1950s and its classic status was re-established.

[5] A Life magazine review at the time blamed "Hollywood commercialism and the stultifying institution of censorship" for the film's poor quality, noting that, "because anything having to do with incest is banned from U.S. films by censors and because Hollywood considers sad endings unprofitable, a moving and mature tragedy has been remade into melodramatic goulash.