Nightfall (1957)

Eventually, we learn through several carefully placed flashbacks, just who is the hero and who's the bad guy and who's working for whom. Everything comes down to a bag of stolen money, lost in the snow; everyone is waiting for the spring thaw to go back and retrieve it.

Subsequently, Tourneur manages to shoot outdoors for large portions of the film, in broad daylight and in the snow, which is a rare setting for a film noir.

Based on a story by David Goodis (Dark Passage, Shoot the Piano Player, Street of No Return), the narrative takes a few odd short cuts here and there, but Tourneur nonetheless fills the 79-minute wonder with some of his most gorgeous compositions.