The Dark Corner is a 1946 film noir directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Lucille Ball, Mark Stevens and Clifton Webb. Like most noir films, The Dark Corner was filmed in black-and-white and was considered a B-movie. Ex-con turned private investigator Bradford Galt suspects someone is following him and maybe even trying to kill him. With the assistance of his spunky secretary Kathleen , he dives deep into a mystery in search of answers. Galt turns the tables on the man following him , who claims to be a private eye named Foss, hired by Galt's sworn enemy, a corrupt lawyer named Tony... Jardine. In the meantime, Jardine has begun having an affair with the much-younger wife of Hardy Cathcart , a wealthy art-gallery owner. It appears that Jardine is setting up Galt to take another fall. But it turns out Foss is not a private eye but a thug named Stauffer, secretly working for Cathcart. He ambushes Galt, knocking him out with ether, then murders Jardine and places a bloody poker in Galt's hand. Kathleen has fallen in love with Galt, so she aids him in covering up the crime and in trying to find out who's behind it.
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| Release date: | April 9, 1946 |
| Directed by: | Henry Hathaway |
| Runtime: | 99 Minutes |
| Producer: | Fred Kohlmar |
| Editor: | J. Watson Webb Jr., J. Watson Webb, Jr. |
| Music by: | Cyril J. Mockridge |
| Cinematography: | Joseph MacDonald |
| Screenplay by: | Jay Dratler, Leo Rosten, Bernard C. Schoenfeld |
| Genre: | Thriller |