Go "Big"

John Drew Barrymore, here act­ing under the name John Barrymore, Jr., seeks sal­va­tion in The Big Night, a typ­ic­ally intense and dir­ect early Joseph Losey picture—the last he made before emig­rat­ing to Europe. It’s a fas­cin­at­ing pic­ture on many levels, and it’s the sub­ject of today’s Foreign Region DVD Report, at The Auteurs’.