Georges Simenon’s novel The Man From London has been adapted for the screen multiple times, originally by Henri Decoin’s gloomy L’homme de Londres (1943) and most recently as an unhurried art film by the Hungarian director Bela Tarr in 2007, but Lance Comfort’s Temptation Harbor added a welcome British interpretation of Simenon’s cynical tale. Robert Newton plays railroad signal man Bert Mallinson, who witnesses one man push another into the harbor and run away into the night; when Mallinson jumps in to save the victim, all he can find is a suitcase stuffed full of cash. His next decision brings with it the expectant doom: he keeps the money. After rescuing his loving, teen-aged daughter Betty (Margaret Barton) from her floor-scrubbing toil and treating her to a day at a carnival, the walls begin closing in. Mallinson finds himself hunted not only by police and gangsters but by his own psychological demons, ultimately descending into a Dostoievskian madness; indeed, Newton’s depiction of a man slowly devoured by shame is beautifully done. Simone Simon plays the not-quite-femme-fatale Camelia, a nightclub “mermaid” performer whom Mallinson takes under his wing and whose motivations remain in a kind of limbo throughout most of the film. Cinematographer Otto Heller paints a stunning canvas of fog-choked alleyways, carnival rides abandoned in the rain, and window light stabbing into the mist outside, sudden cuts and appearances adding creepy suspense at every turn.