Fear in the Night

1947

1h 12m

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The dream is unusually vivid: Bank employee Vince Grayson finds himself murdering a man in a sinister octagonal-shaped room lined with mirrors while a mysterious woman breaks into a safe. It is so vivid that Vince suspects it may have really happened. To get the dream off his mind, he goes on a picnic with some relatives. When a thunderstorm forces his party into a nearby mansion, Vince discovers that the bizarre room does exist, and it means nothing but trouble.

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Maxwell Shane

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Maxwell Shane(writer by)

Cornell Woolrich(short story by)

Stars

Paul Kelly

DeForest Kelley

Ann Doran

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Cliff Herlihy

Vince Grayson

Lil Herlihy

Betty Winters

Captain Warner

Lewis Belknap, aka Harry Byrd

Jeff York

Deputy Torrence (as Jeff Yorke)

Gladys Blake

Bank Clerk (uncredited)

Julia Faye

Rental Home Owner (uncredited)

John Harmon

Clyde Bilyou (uncredited)

Richard Keene

Mr. Kern (uncredited)

Janet Warren

Mrs. Dorothy Belknap (uncredited)

Stuart Holmes

Man with Packages in Elevator (uncredited)

Directors

Maxwell Shane

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Maxwell Shane(writer by)

Cornell Woolrich(short story by)

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"Vince" (DeForest Kelley) wakes up in a sweat one night convinced that he's murdered a young woman. He just assumes it was a vivid nightmare but then he starts to discover some objects around his apartment that he cannot explain. Fortunately, his brother-in-law is cop "Cliff" (Paul Kelly) but when he confides in him, he is politely pointed to the psychiatrists chair. It's only when a family picnic ensues and they find themselves outside an abandoned mansion that his friends start to believe a "Vince" who clearly knows his way around the house and that, quite possibly, he did actually kill someone! The key to the mystery seems to be an octagonal, completely mirrored, room - and maybe if he can find that he might get to the bottom of this mystery. This is actually not a bad little story and although the penny drops for those watching way earlier than it does for the cast, director Maxwell Shane does rather better with the totally wooden cast than you might expect. Everything about the production, the lighting, the static camerawork are pretty basic, but it does hold up for an hour or so, and it's just a little bit different from your average psycho-noir.

Geronimo196706 Jan, 2024