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Night Has a Thousand Eyes
NEVER HAVE THE STARS LOOKED DOWN...ON AN ADVENTURE LIKE THIS !
When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship with John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition. Now years later, he desperately tries to prevent tragedies in the Courtland family.
- Original title
- Night Has a Thousand Eyes
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
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- Revenue
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John Chard
Dec 13, 2018 · via TMDB
The Mental Wizard Curse. Night Has a Thousand Eyes is directed by John Farrow and adapted to screenplay by Barre Lyndon and Jonathan Latimer from the novel of the same name written by Cornell Woolrich. It stars Edward G. Robinson, Gail Russell, John Lund, Virginia Bruce, William Demarest, Richard Webb and Jerome Cowan. Music is scored by Victor Young and cinematography by John F. Seitz. John Triton (Robinson) is a nightclub fortune teller who suddenly finds he really does posses psychic ability. As his predictions become more bleaker, Triton struggles with what was once a gift but now is very much a curse. During a visually sumptuous beginning to the film, a girl is saved from suicide, it's an attention grabbing start and sets the tone for what will follow. Mood and strangulated atmosphere born out by photographic styles, craft of acting and Young's spine tingling score are the keys to the film's success, with the pervading sense of doom ensuring the narrative never falls into mawkish hell. It's a film that shares thematic similarities with a 1934 Claude Rains picture titled The Clairvoyant, only here we enter noir territory for Triton's cursed journey, where as the Rains movie was ultimately leading us to the savage idiocy of mob justice. Farrow's (The Big Clock/Where Danger Lives) film falls into a small quasi supernatural group of black and whites that are formed around a carnival/psychic act. It's a situation for film that film noir makers sadly didn't explore more often, making the likes of Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Nightmare Alley and The Spiritualist little treasures to be cherished. Farrow gets as much suspense out of the story as he can, of which he is helped enormously by the great work of Robinson. At a time when the HUAC was breathing down his neck, Robinson turns in a definitive portrayal of a man caught in a trap, his fate sealed. His face haunted and haggard, his spoken words sorrowful and hushed, Robinson is simply terrific. The world of prognostication gets a film noir make-over, death under the stars indeed. 8/10
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Edward G. Robinson
John Triton
Gail Russell
Jean Courtland
John Lund
Elliott Carson
Virginia Bruce
Jenny
William Demarest
Lt. Shawn
Richard Webb
Peter Vinson
Jerome Cowan
Whitney Courtland
Onslow Stevens
Dr. Walters
John Alexander
Mr. Gilman
Roman Bohnen
Special Prosecutor Melville Weston
Luis van Rooten
Mr. Myers
Douglas Spencer
Dr. Ramsdell
Dorothy Abbott
Maid (uncredited)
Julia Faye
Companion (uncredited)
Pat Flaherty
Policeman (uncredited)
Frank Hagney
Truckman (uncredited)
Minerva Urecal
Elderly Italian Woman (uncredited)
Margaret Field
Agnes (uncredited)
Stuart Holmes
Scientist (uncredited)
Franz Bachelin
Art Direction
Sam Comer
Set Decoration
John F. Seitz
Director of Photography
Edith Head
Costume Design
Wally Westmore
Makeup Supervisor
John Farrow
Director
Victor Young
Original Music Composer
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Oct 13, 1948
New York City, New York
