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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.

Release Date : 1948-08-20

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Paramount Pictures

Production Country : United States of America

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Character Name : John Triton

Original Name : Edward G. Robinson

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jean Courtland

Original Name : Gail Russell

Gender : Female

Character Name : Elliott Carson

Original Name : John Lund

Gender : Male

Character Name : Jenny

Original Name : Virginia Bruce

Gender : Female

Character Name : Lt. Shawn

Original Name : William Demarest

Gender : Male

Character Name : Peter Vinson

Original Name : Richard Webb

Gender : Male

Character Name : Whitney Courtland

Original Name : Jerome Cowan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dr. Walters

Original Name : Onslow Stevens

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mr. Gilman

Original Name : John Alexander

Gender : Male

Character Name : Special Prosecutor Melville Weston

Original Name : Roman Bohnen

Gender : Male

Character Name : Mr. Myers

Original Name : Luis van Rooten

Gender : Male

Character Name : Butler

Original Name : Henry Guttman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Miss Hendricks the Housekeeper

Original Name : Mary Adams

Gender : Female

Character Name : Dr. Ramsdell

Original Name : Douglas Spencer

Gender : Male

Character Name : Maid (uncredited)

Original Name : Dorothy Abbott

Gender : Female

Character Name : Policeman (uncredited)

Original Name : Jimmie Dundee

Gender : Male

Character Name : Companion (uncredited)

Original Name : Julia Faye

Gender : Female

Character Name : Policeman (uncredited)

Original Name : Pat Flaherty

Gender : Male

Character Name : Truckman (uncredited)

Original Name : Frank Hagney

Gender : Male

Character Name : Elderly Italian Woman (uncredited)

Original Name : Minerva Urecal

Gender : Female

Character Name : Agnes (uncredited)

Original Name : Margaret Field

Gender : Female

Character Name : Scientist (uncredited)

Original Name : Stuart Holmes

Gender : Male

Reviews

John Chard

@John Chard

2024-05-16

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