“It's lightning and thunder! It's Lupino and Garfield!”
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
Ida Lupino
Stella Goodwin
John Garfield
Harold Goff
Thomas Mitchell
Jonah Goodwin
Eddie Albert
George Watkins
George Tobias
Igor Propotkin
John Qualen
Olaf Johnson
Aline MacMahon
Florence Goodwin
Jerome Cowan
Assistant D.A.
Odette Myrtil
Caroline Pomponette
Leo Gorcey
Eddie
Out of the Fog is a crime, thriller film released in 1941 exploring themes of fire, drowning, gangster, protection money, boat, fisherman. Directed by Anatole Litvak, it stars Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Thomas Mitchell. A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
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