The Mental Wizard Curse. Night Has a Thousand Eyes comes from director John Farrow and features a screenplay by Barre Lyndon and Jonathan Latimer, based on Cornell Woolrich’s novel of the same name. The cast includes Edward G. Robinson, Gail Russell, John Lund, Virginia Bruce, William Demarest, Richard Webb, and Jerome Cowan. Victor Young composed the music, and John F. Seitz handled the cinematography. John Triton (Robinson) is a nightclub fortune teller who unexpectedly develops genuine psychic abilities. As his predictions grow increasingly grim, Triton wrestles with what was once considered a gift but has become something of a burden. The film begins with a visually rich sequence in which a young woman is prevented from taking her own life; it’s an engaging opening that establishes the overall feel of the movie. The atmosphere and sense of unease, created through photographic techniques, the actors' performances, and Young's unsettling score, are essential to the film’s appeal. A constant feeling of impending disaster keeps the story from becoming overly sentimental. It shares thematic elements with a 1934 Claude Rains film called The Clairvoyant; however, while that movie ultimately led to a depiction of brutal mob justice, here we follow Triton's cursed path through noir territory. Farrow’s (The Big Clock/Where Danger Lives) film is part of a small group of black and white movies centered around a carnival or psychic act—a cinematic setting that filmmakers in the noir genre didn't utilize enough. This makes films like Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Nightmare Alley, and The Spiritualist especially valuable. Farrow extracts as much suspense as possible from the narrative, aided significantly by Robinson’s outstanding performance. At a time when he was under scrutiny from HUAC, Robinson delivers a memorable portrayal of a man ensnared in an inescapable situation, his destiny predetermined. His face appears worn and troubled, his words spoken with sadness and quietness; Robinson is simply excellent. The world of prediction receives a film noir treatment—death beneath the stars indeed. 8/10

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