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After phony stage mentalist Triton mysteriously acquires supernatural powers of precognition, he becomes frightened and abandons his act to live in anonymity.After phony stage mentalist Triton mysteriously acquires supernatural powers of precognition, he becomes frightened and abandons his act to live in anonymity.After phony stage mentalist Triton mysteriously acquires supernatural powers of precognition, he becomes frightened and abandons his act to live in anonymity.
Onslow Stevens
- Dr. Walters
- (as Onslow Stevenson)
Dorothy Abbott
- Maid
- (uncredited)
Harry Allen
- MacDougall
- (uncredited)
Wong Artarne
- Chinese Waiter
- (uncredited)
Gladys Blake
- Mrs. Byers
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaEarly in the picture, a very humble John Triton is shown climbing stairs to his tenement. In the background is clearly shown the Los Angeles funicular railway, Angels Flight, a feature of Bunker Hill in downtown from 1901, running between the close-spaced buildings from Hill to Olive St, south of the entrance to the 3rd St tunnel. The tenements were eventually to fall to re-development, as did Angels Flight, which after a hiatus of about 27 years, was restored to service nearby on the hill.
- GoofsThe flashback begins in 1928 but the women's clothes and hairstyles are of 1948.
- Quotes
John Triton aka 'The Mental Wizard': I'd become a sort of a reverse zombie. I was living in a world already dead, and I alone knowing it.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Frances Farmer Presents: The Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1960)
- SoundtracksNobody Knows the Trouble I Feel
(uncredited)
Traditional Negro spiritual
Played by Jerome Cowan on piano
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New and unwanted abilities
Edward G. Robinson was not fond of this film. In his posthumous unfinished memoirs he said of Night Has A Thousand Eyes he said it was pure hokum. Robinson did this one as Burt Lancaster used to say 'for the poke'.
I don't think it was all that bad, but definitely could have used room for improvement. Sweethearts John Lund and Gail Russell seek out Robinson who was an old friend of her parents. Back in the day all three were involved in a phony mind reading act when Robinson started showing psychic powers for real. A tip on a horse and another tip on a burgeoning oil field made Russell's father Jerome Cowan a rich man. Robinson who is scared of these new and unwanted abilities just leaves it all to go into obscurity leaving Cowan to marry Virginia Bruce who dies in childbirth bearing Russell as Robinson predicted.
Now however Russell is feeling strangely threatened and seeks out Robinson. After this however the plot gets truly muddled.
The first half of the film is the best and the second half bad, so much so you would think it was two different films spliced together. Some mediocre directing is compensated for by the performances of Robinson and Russell. For Gail it was more of the same as she did in The Uninvited.
Fans of both of these players will probably like it more than Edward G. Robinson apparently did.
I don't think it was all that bad, but definitely could have used room for improvement. Sweethearts John Lund and Gail Russell seek out Robinson who was an old friend of her parents. Back in the day all three were involved in a phony mind reading act when Robinson started showing psychic powers for real. A tip on a horse and another tip on a burgeoning oil field made Russell's father Jerome Cowan a rich man. Robinson who is scared of these new and unwanted abilities just leaves it all to go into obscurity leaving Cowan to marry Virginia Bruce who dies in childbirth bearing Russell as Robinson predicted.
Now however Russell is feeling strangely threatened and seeks out Robinson. After this however the plot gets truly muddled.
The first half of the film is the best and the second half bad, so much so you would think it was two different films spliced together. Some mediocre directing is compensated for by the performances of Robinson and Russell. For Gail it was more of the same as she did in The Uninvited.
Fans of both of these players will probably like it more than Edward G. Robinson apparently did.
- bkoganbing
- Aug 5, 2013
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- Runtime1 hour 21 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
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