Eyes in the Night (1942)
Startling as a scream!
Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.
- Date of release
- 1942-10-16
- TMDB
- 6.1 / 10 (36)
- Runtime
- 1h 20m
- Genres
- Thriller, Mystery, Crime
- Director
- Fred Zinnemann
- Collection
- The Duncan Maclain Collection
Casting
- Edward Arnold — Duncan 'Mac' Maclain
- Ann Harding — Norma Lawry
- Donna Reed — Barbara Lawry
- Stephen McNally — Gabriel Hoffman
- Katherine Emery — Cheli Scott
- Allen Jenkins — Marty
- Stanley Ridges — Hansen
- Reginald Denny — Stephen Lawry
- John Emery — Paul Gerente
- Rosemary DeCamp — Vera Hoffman
- Erik Rolf — Boyd
- Barry Nelson — Mr. Busch
Interesting facts
Eyes in the Night is a 1942 American crime mystery starring Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, and Donna Reed. Directed by Fred Zinnemann, it is based on Baynard Kendrick's 1941 novel The Odor of Violets.
Production
Eyes in the Night had originally been assigned to longtime MGM staff director Edward Sedgwick, who had proven effective with offbeat subjects but was usually a comedy director. Producer Jack Chertok, formerly in charge of the studio's dramatic Crime Does Not Pay short subjects, judged Sedgwick's approach to the Maclain story as being too lightweight, and he replaced Sedgwick during production with promising short-subjects director Fred Zinnemann.…
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