Fear in the Night

"Nightmare of Murder...or Dream...or Reality"

Apr 10 1947 Approved 1h 12m
Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

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.

Plot

Bank teller Vince Grayson wakes from a nightmare in which he and an unknown woman murdered a man in a strange, mirrored room. Only a dream...but Vince finds that he has physical objects and bruises from his "dream." His cop brother-in-law dismisses his story...until the family, on a picnic, takes shelter from a thunderstorm in a deserted mansion containing that mirrored room. Is doom closing in on Vince?

Written by

Cornell Woolrich, Maxwell Shane

Directed by

Maxwell Shane

Cast

Paul Kelly, DeForest Kelley, Kay Scott

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Pine-Thomas Productions

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Scores
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1,993
Average Rating
6.3 out of 10
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