Fear in the Night (1947) [Film Noir] [Drama]
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- Fear in the Night is an American low budget black-and-white film noir 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.
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. A few days later, while trying to find cover from the rain, the pair finds themselves taking shelter in the strange house from Vince's dream. They discover that the police found two bodies in the house, one in the mirrored room and one run over in the driveway. Mrs. Belknap, who was run over by a car, gave the police a description matching Vince before she died.
At first Vince is hopeful that he is innocent because he does not know how to drive, but he recognizes the victims from his dream. Overcome with remorse, he attempts suicide, but is rescued by Cliff. The detective uncovers clues that point to an evil hypnotist (Robert Emmett Keane) manipulating Vince. They realize that the hypnotist is actually Mr. Belknap in disguise and try to trap him by pretending that Vince wants hush money. Belknap puts Vince under hypnosis and tries to get him to drown himself. Cliff rescues him from the lake and Mr. Belknap is killed in a car accident as he is trying to evade the police. It is implied that Vince will be acquitted of all charges since he killed the man in the mirrored room in self defense.
"The Amazing Mr. X", also known as "The Spiritualist", is a film noir directed by Bernard Vorhaus with cinematography by John Alton. Like "Nightmare Alley" (1947), this film tells the story of a phony spiritualist racket. The film is prominently featured in Alton's book on cinematography "Painting with Light" (1949). The film stars Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O'Donnell, and Richard Carlson. Eagle-Lion Films signed a contract with Carole Landis for the part played by Bari, but Landis committed suicide a few days before shooting began.
Two years after her husband's death, Christine Faber (Lynn Bari) thinks she hears her late husband (Donald Curtis) calling out of the surf on the beach one night.
She meets a tall dark man named Alexis (Turhan Bey) who seems to know all about her. After more ghostly manifestations, Christine and her younger sister (Cathy O'Donnell) become enmeshed in the strange life of Alexis; but he in turn finds himself manipulated into deeper cruelness than he had in mind.
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Directed by Maxwell Shane, produced by William H. Pine and William C. Thomas, written by Cornell Woolrich (story Nightmare as William Irish) and Maxwell Shane, starring Paul Kelly, DeForest Kelley, Ann Doran and Kay Scott.
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Love and appreciate your channel and uploads......so glad you don't have ads all through the movie... it's annoying and takes away from enjoyment... thank you 👍💙
Those of us that love deforrest Kelly from Star Trek see him as a favorite relative that was in this movie when he was young
Love crazy experimentation in these films. I noticed his facial reaction when he finds the key in his pocket. He makes an Edward G. Robinson grimace. Never realized he was capable of looking like Eddie.
William doing Eddie G. right at 6:08.
@@sclogse1Who's William?
Wow great movie to watch on dark, stormy, full moon nights.
During an interview, Dee Kelley told the journalist, "Wait just a minute---I'll be right back!", then went into his office and returned with a HUGE stack of papers. He handed the stack to the interviewer and told him that EACH PAGE was an acceptance letter from a medical school, and that students from around the world had written to let him know that he was the reason they decided to become a Doctor. Dee just about had tears in his eyes...RIP
Reading this has put tears in my eyes...What a legacy of influence....!!!
Id wanted to become a doctor, then watching Bones on StarTrek somehow put me off. Been unemployed ever since.
Now you know.....the rest of the story.
(props to Paul Harvey)
@@baronmulberry7847 Found work yet?
It was the same for James Doohan. A lot of people also became engineers because of star trek.
@@tomdooley4226 Covid killed him.....😢
Love these atmospheric 40s films. Thanks for posting!
They're called noir
These "atmospheric films" are known as noir, a genre that became very prevalent in film following ww2
DeForest Kelley was so handsome and he was an amazing actor
Nothing like making yourself at home in someone else’shouse just because it’s raining….. simpler times indeed. Good flick btw.
This movie was based on a book by William Irish who also wrote under his real name Cornell Woolrich. One of the best writers of crime stories and novels. Many movies are based on his works.
The Rear Window.
How do you not love a guy demanding of an elevator operator "CAN'T THIS THING GO ANY FASTER?!" as a way of heightening a film's dramatic tension?! Followed by the operator telling him "I've got it wide open." Add to this Kelley's character's incredibly melodramatic responses to seemingly ALL situations he encounters and you've got the makings of a winning noir! As if he cannot wrap his mind around his brother-in-law's investigative thinking and process but leaping from hotel windows seems the sensible response to the situation. Brilliant.
Elevators had human operators, then, who operated a hand throttle / brake.
The speed was controllable. An operator started slowly, then ran 'wide open' if going several floors up or down, then slowed gradually as the floor approached.
Great film! Seems kind of funny hearing ol' doc Bones being called "kid"!! XD
I consider this a true lost gem. I have it on a 3 movie dvd collection that includes "the hitch-hiker" and "D. O. A." its a very interesting plot and well constructed. paul Kelly was a child actor in early silent films and transitioned well into adult roles and in the late 1920's he actually did time for manslaughter. in 1939 he appeared in "the roaring twenties" as a rival gangster opposing cagney and bogart. for another great little movie surprise I suggest a 1959 film called "the bat" with agnes moorehead and Vincent price. its a wonderful little who-done-it and has people dropping dead all over the place. thanks for the upload.
What is the name of the DVD?
@@gregramos1897The Bat.
Fear in the night is a great drama movie that I enjoyed watching.
Thanks for the upload Timeless Classic Movies.
Ed
I love this movie. Beam me up, Scotty!
This must take place in California. Nothing scares the shit out of us like some rain. Throw lightning and thunder in there and your talking total chaos.
Hilarious but true!!
Nonsense.
Has the feeling of impending doom for it's characters like 1968 Night of the Living Dead where they also run to a farm house for shelter.
What a fabulous movie ! I've been an "old" movie fan for years & never saw [his one. Amazing ! Really good. Thank you. Subscribed now !!
amazing, I can see the logic of casting the young Kelley in these sorts of things. ..He kinda resembles a Better Looking Edward G. Robinson as a young man. ..
+TheBookWorm1718 love "Bones!"
*****
I think it's high time to have a festival of classic cinema featuring unattractive leading men. Are you listening, TCM???
Why go to movies and see trash when so many good films like this
That was an excellent movie 😁
My favorite film to go to sleep with ! Would have loved to have been an adult and lived in this time period and place.
mine is plan 9 from outerspace : )
@@bonniea3310 Plan 9 was a great show
don't you just love the dramatic music used in those days? Love these old black and whites
At least 5 commercials. This was a modest film but competently done. As a mystery murder the intrigue is competently played out to retain the viewers interest. Of course DeForest Kelly plays Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy in Star Trey TOS. That was my motivation to watch the film. Wikipedia notes that: "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." I would like to see that.
I've never seen Star Trey. But Kelley was also in a T.V. series called "Star Trek" which ran from 1966 to 1969.
I'm a doctor, Jim, not a murderer!
Excellent movie, TY for the upload :-)
Good movie. Thank you for uploading.
Love these, have not gotten my e-mail in3 days. Thank you.
Good little film.....but I’m glad to see the Detective finally started to treat his bro-in-law like a HUMAN BEING! Geeze! Don’t know any brother-in-law who’d actually take that much hatred! Oh well......it’s only a movie!😀 Actually was a great plot though! 💕🙋♀️
I am here just to see DeForest Kelley ☺ I have to say he was a handsome man... 💗
Hey this looks like a good place!! Knock Knock hmmm... well no body at home, Hey a key under the mat, open the door and go in. I'm sure they don't mind since I'm frightened of lightning. Let's make our selves at home.. LOL
I was hoping Bela Lugosi would walk down the stairs.
That's what I do when there's a storm. Just go right in somebody's house and make myself at home.
@@harryreasinger3521
LOL
Not the mat. The plant.
DeForest Kelley's bio on wikipedia brought me here
Same here :)
And for many of the rest of us, this movie brought us to check the Wikipedia bio. Works both ways!
The power of suggestion 😕...take a cough drop...have a cough drop...you Need A Cough Drop!!! Are you getting sleepy...very 😪... very very 😴!!! 😂😂😂
😉 aha,,, I see 😂😂😂
In the 40s when dramatic music stops, suicide thoughts go away.
Well! That was fantastic! RIP to all the classic screens stars, writers and directors of all form. This was something special...
A fun entertainment with a "you got to be fucking kidding me" twist !
Only in a forties movie would a man go on a picnic dressed in a suit and fedora
I love these older movies but hate the suits..
Now people walk around in their night clothes..kind of sad!!
Strange, right? I go naked.
@@dalemulholland4469 You'll want to stick to movies about surfing.
DeForrest Kelly! I did not expect him here.
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.
Liked it. Unique film.
Thank you.
There have been several other "octagonal room of mirrors" thrillers of the era. Impossible to get a proper haircut in such a place.
COOL MOVIE💕
It's raining; the car's wipers don't work....so they go looking for a house they can wait out the storm in ? I'd have told them to wait in their damn car.
Or, you could just ask the writer to write out the rain. Like it or don't like it, critique it, discuss it, but don't rewrite it. It's the same logic as explaining they'll need to get their wipers repaired before shooting begins.
I make a comment reflecting upon the illogic of an aspect of a movie plot - quite a reasonable thing to do - and you mis-interpret it, deliberately, as a sign of my detachment from reality. Reflects poorly on you.
You're right. It's banter that I'm accustomed to, and pulling you into it was unreasonable. My apologies for an edification of your remark that was unneeded or welcome. And you right about the logic . . . why go out into the storm when the car has a perfectly good roof . . . .
Yeah, but then you don’t have this damn movie.
No rain, no house. No house, no mirrored room. No mirrored room, no more clues. Also no cop explaining about the murder, etc. You see how it all ties in? Their going into the house was extremely vital to the entire movie.
Damnit Jim...I didn't kill him!!! (Dr. McCoy voice... Star Trek) 😂😂😂
Dr. McCoy's film debut !
"It seemed as if my brain was handcuffed." Uh huh. His brain was handcuffed. Whaa?
Erg Budster Brain, brain! What is brain!? Kelley certainly drew on his experience in this movie for his tour de force performance in “Spock’s Brain.”
I guess waking into a strangers house unannounced was legal back then
Only in Hollywood scripts.
Bro in law was gangster in the movie. The roaring 20s wit h cagney
love Deforest Kelly
Strange mumbled background noise in this movie. 🤔 Mainly, first half of the movie.....great movie, though.
He's dead, Jim.
Still waiting for Bones to say, it's worth than that he's dead Jim
Worth?🤔
I thought that was Robert Young at first.
The guy who played the bank president here played a thug in an episode or two of 'The Adventures of Superman" a few years later.
Warning - man-nips at 6:32...
Oml 😂😂😂😂
DataWaveTaGo blech!
This film is almost a good movie. Starring Bogart with the right director it could have been fantastic, as it is it's a B movie that is merely interesting. Paul Kelly, however is quite good as the cop brother in law. DeForest is adequate but nothing more. Still, I did enjoy it enough to watch it through to the end. I'll give it a B- for novelty of plot and Paul Kellys acting.
Anyone figure out how the hypnotist selected Kelley as his instrument and fall guy?
Cough drops in the elevator. He was being tested, lol.
I watched a remake of this named NIGHTMARE, which still had Edward G.Robinson in it. It was a better quality movie than this one
With Joan Leslie..?
Beam me up, Scottie.
deforest da man trippin balls!!
THE DETECTIVE IS DEFOREST KELLEY WHO PLAYED LEONARD McCOY THE CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER IN THE 60'S TV SHOW "STAR TREK".
No, Kelley plays the protagonist. The detective is the brother in law of Kelley's character.
I knew McCoy would be found innocent…
He goes on to medical school and later
serve son the Starship Enterprise.😎
This ain't no damn kaleidoscope! Geez!!! 🤔
Yeah, really. Why would anyone have a room like that anyway?
I watch this movie dead in the afternoon I do not like these kind of films at night .
Take a pill and chill Bones.
*Too bad Vince Grason was a bank teller not a doctor.*
ok.
I knew this was going to be a good movie when I saw that F. Paul Sylos was the art director.🙄
Scared me
Half your movies are missing
There are just hundreds of really great film noirs on TH-cam. Check out "A House is not a Home", it will blow you away. I could name many, many more but I won't. I am sure you'll find them.
I don't know the book, but the movie leaves much to be desired. Paul Stewart is good and nice to see Ann Doran in a part that was more than a walk-on. DeForrest Kelley had awhile to go and the rest of the cast walked in and out somnambulistically. Also, drop the loud, screechy background "music". 3 snores.
The one that is being hypontized
Good movie.....just that DeForest Kelley is not the "Leading Man" Type. He's just "average" in looks and ability....that's why Star Trek was just right for him. He was #3.(ls69freestyle)
Really didn't need the 'anti Obama care" ad... kind of killed my mood.
shut up
deforrest kelley star trek+bones
NO! Really?🙄
That's the doctor from Star trek original series
You don't say.
You have a keen grasp of the obvious!
Thanks. I wouldn't have known that if you hadn't said anything.🙄
mr. mc coy