Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)When phony stage mentalist Triton mysteriously acquires supernatural powers of precognition, he becomes frightened and abandons his act to live of anonymity. Director:John Farrow |
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Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)When phony stage mentalist Triton mysteriously acquires supernatural powers of precognition, he becomes frightened and abandons his act to live of anonymity. Director:John Farrow |
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| Edward G. Robinson | ... |
John Triton
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Gail Russell | ... |
Jean Courtland
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John Lund | ... |
Elliott Carson
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| Virginia Bruce | ... |
Jenny Courtland
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| William Demarest | ... |
Lieut. Shawn
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Richard Webb | ... |
Peter Vinson
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Jerome Cowan | ... |
Whitney Courtland
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Onslow Stevens | ... |
Dr. Walters
(as Onslow Stevenson)
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John Alexander | ... |
Mr. Gilman
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Roman Bohnen | ... |
Melville Weston
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Luis Van Rooten | ... |
Mr. Myers
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Henry Guttman | ... |
Butler
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Mary Adams | ... |
Miss Hendricks
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Douglas Spencer | ... |
Dr. Ramsdell
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When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship to John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition. His partner, Whitney Courtland, uses Triton's talent to make money; but Triton's inability to prevent what he foresees, causes him to break up the act and become a hermit. Years later, Triton has new visions and desperately tries to prevent tragedies in the Courtland family. Can his warnings succeed against suspicion, unbelief, and inexorable fate? Written by Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
A jewel in the rough. A small little movie with a great Edward G. Robinson. The loneliness of Triton is played with a big intensity by him. Story, actors and shooting of the film is both, film noir and drama of loneliness and being lost, quite as it is Woolrich's credo in a lot of his novels and screen adaptations. This is one of its best. Eight points.