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Release Date: 18 February, 2003 Retail Price: $7.98 OUR Price: $7.98 You SAVE: $0.00! Cast: Complete Cast (7 total) |
Eyes in the Night Reviews
If there was any sense...
... in awards delivery, Friday should have got "Best second role award", because during the whole movie (until the very last shot) it was not like it was performing tricks, but like it was truly acting. It is really frustrating, especially when you see a di Caprio getting awards, since I still can't see his acting abilities, but only performing tricks (and not above average). I always esteemed Fred Zinnemann, and I'm glad I could at last see his first directed movie, which is not only an original one, but as well a very good one.
"That phony nobility of yours makes me sick!"
In this all-but-forgotten "B" film from 1942, Edward Arnold plays Duncan "Mac" Maclain, a blind, yes blind, private detective who uses his highly intelligent seeing-eye dog "Friday" to help him catch criminals and/or solve mysteries. Sounds hokey, I know, but I found this movie to be surprisingly entertaining from beginning to end, and quite hilarious. In fact, I wonder why they didn't make a series of films with the Duncan Maclain character, it might've been good competition with the Thin Man series.
Ann Harding plays Norma Lawry, a close friend of Duncan's who gets him to investigate the murder of an actor. But that is only the beginning of a sinister plot he slowly uncovers involving Nazi spies who're after secret government documents (or something like that) that belong to Ann's husband Stephen (Reginald Denny). Also complicating matters is the fact that Ann's disrespectful daughter Barbara (21-year-old Donna Reed, oh yeah!!!) is unknowingly helping the spies. Several murders later, however, it dawns on her that these strange men and women are not stage performers like she thought but are secret agents!
It all boils down to a smart dog and a blind detective that everyone underestimated. Edward Arnold, a great character actor, does wonderful here in the role of Duncan "Mac" Maclain, and Donna Reed, although playing a bratty teen, was very attractive and added a lot to the movie. Director Fred Zinnemann had little to no respect for "Eyes in the Night", but at the 1986 Berlin Film Festival honoring him the movie was the surprise hit. The movie has aged very well and is a great wartime "B" mystery that packs plenty of humor and entertainment into 80 minutes.
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