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Night Has a Thousand Eyes is a 1948 black-and-white film noir starring Edward G. Robinson. Robinson plays a nightclub fortune teller who's con act becomes real when he starts really seeing the future. All his predictions are bleak, however and Talbot must struggle with the power that was given him.

The movie, directed by John Farrow, is based on a novel by Cornell Woolrich. The screenplay was written by Barré Lyndon and Jonathan Latimer.

Critical reaction

The rarely seen bleak noir is usually praised for adapting writer Woolrich's dark writing. Time Out Film Guide, liking the camera work by Seitz, gives the thriller a negative review:

"Aside from the fine opening sequence - Lund's rescue of Gail Russell from the brink of suicide, and discovery of her mortal terror of the stars - a disappointing adaptation of Cornell Woolrich's superb novel"

Eddie Muller, in the book Art of Noir, writes:

"No film more faithfully captured Woolrich's sense of doomed predestination than Night Has a Thousand Eyes..."

Maltese Falcon actor Jerome Cowan plays Robinson's best friend in the film who gets rich using tips from Triton.

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