Eyes in the Night

Eyes in the Night
Directed by	Fred Zinnemann
Produced by	Jack Chertok
Written by	Baynard Kendrick (book The Odor of Violets) Guy Trosper (screenplay) Howard Emmett Rogers (screenplay)
Starring	See below
Music by	Lennie Hayton Daniele Amfitheatrof
Cinematography	Charles Lawton Jr. Robert H. Planck
Editing by	Ralph E. Winters
Release date(s)	16 October 1942
Running time	80 minutes
Country	USA
Language	English

Eyes in the Night is a 1942 American mystery film directed by Fred Zinnemann based on Baynard Kendrick's 1941 novel The Odor of Violets .

Plot summary

Captain Duncan "Mac" Maclain is a formidable private detective who happens to be blind; but his other senses are sharper than average. He copes with his sight deficiency by being accompanied by a dog named Friday and a human assistant named Marty.

Mac is asked by his friend Norma to break up a romantic relationship between her seventeen year old step-daughter Barbara and a fifty year old actor. Mac finds the lover has been murdered and detects his body has been removed from the scene of the crime. The murder leads him into an Axis spy ring.

Differences from book

In the novel, Mac is a Government Intelligence Agent.

Cast

• 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
• Erik Rolf as Boyd
• Barry Nelson as Mr. Busch
• Reginald Sheffield as Victor
• Steven Geray as Mr. Anderson
• Mantan Moreland as Alistair, Duncan's butler
• Friday as Friday the dog

External links

• Eyes in the Night at the Internet Movie Database
• Eyes in the Night is available for free download at the Internet Archive [more]