Fear in the Night

1947 PG-13 1h 12m

5.4 / 10 35

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5.4/10

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The dream is unusually vivid: Bank employee Vince Grayson finds himself murdering a man in a sinister octagonal-shaped room lined with mirrors while a mysterious woman breaks into a safe. It is so vivid that Vince suspects it may have really happened. To get the dream off his mind, he goes on a picnic with some relatives. When a thunderstorm forces his party into a nearby mansion, Vince discovers that the bizarre room does exist, and it means nothing but trouble.

Director Maxwell Shane

Writers

Maxwell Shane Cornell Woolrich

Stars

Paul Kelly DeForest Kelley Ann Doran

Lewis Belknap, aka Harry Byrd

Jeff York

Deputy Torrence (as Jeff Yorke)

Gladys Blake

Bank Clerk (uncredited)

Julia Faye

Rental Home Owner (uncredited)

John Harmon

Clyde Bilyou (uncredited)

Richard Keene

Mr. Kern (uncredited)

Janet Warren

Mrs. Dorothy Belknap (uncredited)

Stuart Holmes

Man with Packages in Elevator (uncredited)

Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

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Geronimo1967 6 Jan 2024

6/10

"Vince" (DeForest Kelley) wakes up in a sweat one night convinced that he's murdered a young woman. He just assumes it was a vivid nightmare but then he starts to discover some objects around his apartment that he cannot explain. Fortunately, his brother-in-law is cop "Cliff" (Paul Kelly) but when he confides in him, he is politely pointed to the psychiatrists chair. It's only when a family picnic...

John Chard 7 Jan 2020

7/10

Then I saw the room, a queer mirrored room. Fear in the Night is directed by Maxwell Shane who also adapts from Cornell Woolrich's (AKA: William Irish) story titled "Nightmare". It stars Paul Kelly, DeForest Kelley, Ann Doran, Kay Scott & Robert Emmett Keane. Music is by Rudy Schrager and photography by Jack Greenhalgh. Plot finds bank teller Vince Grayson (Kelley) awoken from a nightmare wher...