{"id":42083,"date":"2026-08-03T07:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42083"},"modified":"2026-08-01T15:05:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T19:05:49","slug":"nightfall-aka-the-dark-chase-by-david-goodis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42083","title":{"rendered":"NIGHTFALL (aka THE DARK CHASE) by David Goodis \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4mBT0Y5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z080326zview_nightfall.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"815\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NIGHTFALL (aka THE DARK CHASE) by David Goodis<\/p>\n<p>First sentence&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It was one of those hot sticky nights that makes Manhattan show its age.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jim Vanning is a wanted man.\u00a0 The cops want him in regard to the theft of $300,000.00.\u00a0 The crooks involved in the theft want Vanning as well.\u00a0 Problem is, Vanning can&#8217;t remember exactly what happened.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vanning knows a man was killed during the robbery.\u00a0 Did he kill the guy?\u00a0 Was he part of the robbery crew?\u00a0 Was he an innocent that got caught up in the theft?\u00a0 \u00a0He knows he had the $300,000.00 in a satchel at one point.\u00a0 Now he doesn&#8217;t know what happened to the loot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vanning is tired of running.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just a question of who or what is going to get to him first&#8230; the crooks&#8230; the cops&#8230; or his memory.<\/p>\n<p>+++<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">NIGHTFALL was also released under the titles CONVICTED and THE DARK CHASE.\u00a0 It was also adapted into a feature film under the<em> Nightfall<\/em> title in 1957.\u00a0 It was directed by Jacques\u00a0 (<em>Cat People; Out of the Past; Night of the Demon<\/em>) Tourneur and starred Aldo Ray, Brian Keith and Anne Bancroft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Rating:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIGHTFALL (aka THE DARK CHASE) by David Goodis First sentence&#8230; &#8220;It was one of those hot sticky nights that makes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,51,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-crime","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42355,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42083\/revisions\/42355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}