Fear in the Night (1947 film)

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Fear in the Night (1947 film) is a low-budget American film noir thriller, noted as an early starring vehicle for DeForest Kelley and based on a Cornell Woolrich story about a man haunted by a dream of murder.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf film
film noir
thriller film
alsoKnownAs And So to Death
basedOn story by Cornell Woolrich
“And So to Death”
budgetLevel low-budget
cinematography Jack Greenhalgh
countryOfOrigin United States
director Maxwell Shane
distributionFormat theatrical film
distributor Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation
linked to: Paramount Pictures
editor Howard A. Smith
era 1940s American cinema
filmColor black-and-white
format black-and-white
genre crime film
film noir
thriller
hasRemake Nightmare (1956 film)
hasTheme dreams and reality
guilt
psychological horror
leadActorForCharacter Vince Grayson DeForest Kelley
leadCharacter Vince Grayson
mainProtagonistOccupation bank teller
musicBy Hanns Eisler
notableFor early starring role for DeForest Kelley
originalLanguage English
partOf American film noir cycle of the 1940s
plotSummary A man is haunted by a vivid dream in which he commits murder and begins to suspect it may have actually happened.
producer Lester Cutler
productionCompany Pine-Thomas Productions
releaseDate 1947-06-27
releaseYear 1947
remadeAs Nightmare (1956 film)
runtimeMinutes 72
screenwriter Maxwell Shane
setting Los Angeles
starring Ann Doran
DeForest Kelley
Kay Scott
Paul Kelly
storyAuthor Cornell Woolrich
timePeriodOfStory contemporary to late 1940s

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DeForest Kelley appearedIn Fear in the Night (1947 film)
Cornell Woolrich workAdaptedAs Fear in the Night (film)
linked to: Fear in the Night (1947 film)
Jimmy Sangster directed Fear in the Night (1972 film)
linked to: Fear in the Night (1947 film)