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Fear in the Night is a american film of genre Drama directed by Maxwell Shane released in USA on 18 april 1947 with Paul Kelly

Fear in the Night (1947)

Fear in the Night
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Released in USA 18 april 1947
Length 1h12
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Thriller,    Noir,    Crime
Rating62% 3.1440253.1440253.1440253.1440253.144025

Fear in the Night is a 1947 American low budget black-and-white film noir mystery film directed by Maxwell Shane and starring Paul Kelly and DeForest Kelley (in his film debut). It is based on the Cornell Woolrich story "And So to Death" (retitled '"Nightmare" in 1943). 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.

Synopsis

Bank teller Vince Grayson (DeForest Kelley) dreams that he stabs a man 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.

Actors

Paul Kelly

(Cliff Herlihy)
DeForest Kelley

(Vince Grayson)
Ann Doran

(Lil Herlihy)
Charles Victor

(Captain Warner)
Robert Emmett Keane

(Lewis Belknap, aka Harry Byrd)
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