Night Has a Thousand Eyes

"NEVER HAVE THE STARS LOOKED DOWN...ON AN ADVENTURE LIKE THIS !"

1948 1h 21m EN

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★6.8TMDB · 49

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Synopsis

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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.

“NEVER HAVE THE STARS LOOKED DOWN...ON AN ADVENTURE LIKE THIS !”

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Cast

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

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: John Farrow
Writers: Jonathan Latimer, Barré Lyndon
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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RUNTIME

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81 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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ERA

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78 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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3 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by John Farrow, shot by John F. Seitz. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Victor Young. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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CAST

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Edward G. Robinson and Gail Russell and John Lund carry the top of the cast.

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CAST

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Marketing tagline: "NEVER HAVE THE STARS LOOKED DOWN...ON AN ADVENTURE LIKE THIS !".

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7 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0040643 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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8 / 8

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Only 49 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

John Farrow directs. John F. Seitz behind the camera. Victor Young scores. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

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Things worth knowing

181 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
278 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
3Directed by John Farrow, shot by John F. Seitz. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Victor Young. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Edward G. Robinson and Gail Russell and John Lund carry the top of the cast.
6Marketing tagline: "NEVER HAVE THE STARS LOOKED DOWN...ON AN ADVENTURE LIKE THIS !".
7IMDB entry: tt0040643 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Only 49 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: John F. Seitz
Original score: Victor Young
Costume design: Edith Head
Makeup / hair: Wally Westmore
Runtime: 81 min · 1h 21m
Status: Released
Original language: EN
Certification (US): NR
IMDB: Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)

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John Chard2018-12-13
★ 8/10
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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