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The Night Has Eyes

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Wikipedia article




'The Night Has Eyes', released in the United States as 'Terror House' by Producers Releasing Corporation and re-released in the US by Cosmopolitan Pictures in 1949 as 'Moonlight Madness', is a 1942 British thriller film directed by Leslie Arliss starring James Mason, Joyce Howard, Wilfrid Lawson, Mary Clare. and Tucker McGuire. It is based on the 1939 novel of the same title by Alan Kennington.

Plot



Two young teachers travel to the Yorkshire Moors where their friend disappeared a year before. Before long they have encountered the man they believe to be her murderer. That night, they become stranded in the house where they are staying when a violent storm breaks out.

Cast



* James Mason - Stephen Deremid

* Wilfrid Lawson - Jim Sturrock

* Joyce Howard - Marian Ives

* Mary Clare - Mrs. Ranger

* Tucker McGuire - Doris

* John Fernald - Doctor Barry Randall

* Dorothy Black - Miss Fenwick

* Amy Dalby - Miss Miggs

Critical reception



Leonard Maltin called the film an "OK mystery"; Allmovie called it a "taut British chiller" ; and 'TV Guide' wrote "though melodramatic and soundstage-bound, 'Terror House' is still quite effective and eerie. Fog covers almost every exterior; cinematographer Gunther Krampf spent long periods getting the artificial fog at just the right density...The final film was almost too effective, and after initially getting an A rating from the British censor and being booked on the biggest cinema circuit in Britain, the rating was suddenly changed to H (for "Horrific"), making it off-limits for anyone under 16 years of age. The big circuits had a policy of showing only A films, so the independent cinemas became the big winners, getting an excellent thriller starring Mason, Britain's top leading man at the time."

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