2012-07-28

Public domain film noir: Fear in the Night (1947)

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Directed: Maxwell Shane
Written: Cornell Woolrich (story "And So to Death" ), Maxwell Shane (screenplay)
Cinematographer: Jack Greenhalgh




Plot: Vince Grayson dreams that he stabs a man and locks the body in a closet. It turns out an evil hypnotist has set him up and his dream is real.

Trivia:

  • "And So to Death" was retitled '"Nightmare" in 1943. Woolrich is credited under pen name William Irish.

  • This is DeForest Kelley's first feature.

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