Fear in the Night

Fear in the Night

72 mins | Drama, Crime, Thriller, Mystery | April 10, 1947

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.

Fear in the Night

72 mins | Drama, Crime, Thriller, Mystery | April 10, 1947

Fear in the Night
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.
IMDb rating 6.3
Producers Pine-Thomas Productions
Original title Fear in the Night
Directors Maxwell Shane
Writers Maxwell Shane, Cornell Woolrich

Cast

Paul Kelly

as Cliff Herlihy

DeForest Kelley

as Vince Grayson

Ann Doran

as Lil Herlihy

Kay Scott

as Betty Winters

Charles Victor

as Captain Warner

Robert Emmett Keane

as Lewis Belknap, aka Harry Byrd

Jeff York

as Deputy Torrence (as Jeff Yorke)

Gladys Blake

as Bank Clerk (uncredited)

Julia Faye

as Rental Home Owner (uncredited)

John Harmon

as Clyde Bilyou (uncredited)

Richard Keene

as Mr. Kern (uncredited)

Janet Warren

as Mrs. Dorothy Belknap (uncredited)

Stuart Holmes

as Man with Packages in Elevator (uncredited)