In this excellent film noir melodrama written by Clifford Odets and directed by Fritz Lang, the great Barbara Stanwyck plays a woman who returns to the tough waterside district of Monterey, California, after many years away from home and tries to start anew. With Robert Ryan as a proto-edgelord film projectionist (!) and Marilyn Monroe before she achieved her greatest fame. Free Member Monday — free admission for all AFS members on May 20.