EYES IN THE NIGHT (1942) Edward Arnold, Ann Harding & Donna Reed | Mystery | B&W | Timeless Film

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Eyes in the Night is a 1942 American crime mystery starring Edward Arnold, Ann Harding and Donna Reed. Directed by Fred Zinnemann, it is based on Baynard Kendrick's 1941 novel The Odor of Violets.

SYNOPSIS
Famed stage actress Norma Lawry retired upon marrying Stephen Lawry, considered one of the finest scientific minds, he working on a project the nature of which Norma does not know. He states its successful completion could change the face of the war. Norma tries to warn her seventeen year old stepdaughter Barbara Lawry, also an actress, from getting involved with Paul Gerente, her costar in a regional stage production. Norma knows first hand that Paul is a cad in once being engaged to him, such a warning which Barbara attributes to jealousy in believing that Norma is in love with him herself and that she only married her father for his money. When she may be implicated in a murder in discovering a dead body, Norma turns to her old friend, private investigator Duncan Maclain, to help her, he in turn being assisted by his two right hands, Marty and Friday, they his literal eyes in Mac being blind, Friday his guide dog, although Mac in general functions quite well on his own in most circumstances. If he gets too close to the what is happening and the plot that led to the murder, Mac may place his, Friday and Norma's lives among others in danger, that is unless the perpetrator(s) underestimate a blind man.

Cast & Crew
Edward Arnold as Duncan "Mac" MacLain
Ann Harding as Norma Lawry
Donna Reed as Barbara Lawry
Stephen McNally as Gabriel Hoffman
Katherine Emery as Cheli Scott
Allen Jenkins as Marty
Stanley Ridges as Hansen, Lawry's butler
Reginald Denny as Stephen Lawry
John Emery as Paul Gerente
Rosemary DeCamp as Vera Hoffman, Lawry's maid
Barry Nelson as Busch
Reginald Sheffield as Victor
Steven Geray as Anderson
Mantan Moreland as Alistair, Duncan's butler

Directed by Fred Zinnemann
Screenplay by Guy Trosper, Howard Emmett Rogers, & Baynard Kendrick
Produced by Jack Chertok
Cinematography Charles Lawton Jr.
Robert H. Planck
Edited by Ralph E. Winters
Music by Lennie Hayton, Daniele Amfitheatrof
Distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date October 16, 1942
Running time 80 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $433,000
Box office $978,000

Notes
The film was followed by the sequel (also starring Arnold) The Hidden Eye.