The screenplay was written by Barré Lyndon and Jonathan Latimer. That can be seen more clearly now that an earlier version of the film has surfaced. It has been used to do cool creative photography and can even be used to monitor the health of green plants. What distinguishes it from other low-budget films of the day is the casting of non-box office attraction Arnold as the protagonist-good guy (if it helps, think of him as the William Conrad of his time). EYES IN THE NIGHT - VCI Entertainment Fred Zinnemann’s directorial debut produced an excellent little crime-thriller for MGM based on the book “The Odor of Violets” by Baynard H. Kendrick. French critics coined the term film noir in reference to the low-keyed lighting used to enhance these dramas stylistically—although the term would not become commonplace in international critical circles until the publication of the book Panorama du film noir … Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Int'l Film Festival Awards Central Festival Central All Events. Edward Arnold made the first of his two appearances as Kendrick’s blind detective Captain Duncan McLain While not the inventor of surreal noir, David Lynch is surely the current king of that subgenre, giving us plenty of movies inspired by old crime films and the subconscious mind. Fear in the Night Passed | 1h 12min | Crime , Drama , Film-Noir | 16 June 1948 (Mexico) A man dreams he committed murder, then begins to suspect it was real. Celebs. D.O.A. These were: Fred Walburn, Robert Winkler, Walter Tetley, Cliff Danielson and Frances Rafferty. Share your thoughts, experiences and the tales behind the art. Those moods were often derived from the plots of cheap, pulp fiction crime novels. "The Big Sleep" was finished by Warner Brothers in 1945, but held out of release while the studio rushed to play off its backlog of World War II movies. The similar Lost Highway might have more of a straight noir narrative, but this mind-bending thriller is a far more compelling movie. Directed by Alfred L. Werker, Anthony Mann. The frantically-paced plot revolves around a doomed man's quest to find out who has poisoned him – and why – before he dies. (1950) is a film noir drama film directed by Rudolph Maté, considered a classic of the stylistic genre. With Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts, Whit Bissell. Night Has a Thousand Eyes is a 1948 film noir, starring Edward G. Robinson and directed by John Farrow. French critics coined the term film noir in reference to the low-keyed lighting used to enhance these dramas stylistically—although the term would not become commonplace in international critical circles until the publication of the book Panorama du film noir americain (1955) by … Guns, dames and hats: you can't have a film noir without them, can you? The aforementioned Capra films are hardly "B" movies, but "Eyes in the Night" most certainly is. Some cast members in studio records/casting call lists did not appear or were not identifiable in the movie. Sherlock Holmes And The Secret Weapon 1943 in Colour English Subtitles Basil Rathbone Nigel Bruce Eyes in the Night Destined to become one of Hollywood's most bankable directors in the 1950s, Austrian-born filmmaker Fred Zinnemann graduated from a series of short films to full-blown features with two mysteries in 1942.