Fear in the Night

Fear in the Night

Infobox_Film
name =Fear in the Night


director =Maxwell Shane
producer =William H. Pine,
William C. Thomas
writer =Cornell Woolrich (story Nightmare as William Irish),
Maxwell Shane
starring =Paul Kelly,
DeForest Kelley,
Ann Doran,
Kay Scott
music =Rudy Schrager
distributor =Paramount Pictures
released =April 18, 1947 (US premiere)
runtime =72 min.
language =English
budget=
awards =
imdb_id =0039372 |

"Fear in the Night" (1947) is a low budget black and white film noir directed by Maxwell Shane and starring Paul Kelly and DeForest Kelley (in his film debut). Based on the Cornell Woolrich story "Nightmare". Woolrich is credited under pen name "William Irish". The film was remade by the same director in 1956 with the title "Nightmare" this time starring Edward G. Robinson playing the cop and Kevin McCarthy.

Plot

Bank teller Vince Grayson (DeForest Kelley) dreams that he stabs someone in an octagonal room of mirrors and locks the body in a closet. When he wakes up, he discovers marks on his throat, a strange key and a button in his pocket, and blood on his cuff. Cliff Herlihy (Paul Kelly), his police officer brother-in-law, tries to convince him it was just a dream. Then, one day, while trying to find shelter from the rain, the pair finds themselves taking shelter in the strange house from Vince's dream. After being rescued from an attempted suicide by Cliff, the detective uncovers clues that point to an evil hypnotist (Robert Emmett Keane) manipulating Vince.

Quote

"I've got an honest man's conscience... in a murderer's body." - Vince (Kelley)


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