The Night Has Eyes

1942

Action / Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

7
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 33%
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 970 970

noir countryside yorkshire teacher film noir rural area

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Plot summary

Two teachers, man-hungry Doris and restrained Marian, visit the Yorkshire moors a year after friend Evelyn disappeared there. On a stormy night, they take refuge in the isolated cottage of Stephen, one-time pianist shell-shocked in the Spanish Civil War. Doris flees as soon as the flood subsides; but Marian's suspicions about Evelyn's fate, in conflict with her growing love for Stephen, prompt her to stay on among the misty bogs.

Director

Leslie Arliss Photo
Leslie Arliss

Top cast

Joyce Howard Photo
Joyce Howard as Marian Ives
James Mason Photo
James Mason as Stephen Deremid
Wilfrid Lawson Photo
Wilfrid Lawson as Jim Sturrock
Tucker McGuire Photo
Tucker McGuire as Doris
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725.01 MB
988*720
English 2.0
Approved
Subtitles
24 fps
1 hr 19 min
Seeds 1
1.31 GB
1472*1072
English 2.0
Approved
Subtitles
24 fps
1 hr 19 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by John Chard 7 / 10

When the moon shines bright… The Night Has

When the moon shines bright… The Night Has Eyes (AKA: Terror House/Moonlight Madness) is directed by Leslie Arliss who also adapts the screenplay from the novel written by Alan Kennington. It stars James Mason, Wilfrid Lawson, Mary Clare, Joyce Howard and Tucker Maguire. Music is by Charles Williams and cinematography by Gunther Krampf. “You seem to regard me as some sort of male sleeping beauty who is restored to life by your kiss” During the school term break, two lady school teachers travel to the Yorkshire Moors in the hope of finding out what happened to a fellow work colleague who vanished there a year previously. Arriving on the moors at night time, a storm breaks and the two women are thankful to stumble upon an isolated house where somebody is at home. The inhabitant is Stephen Deremid (Mason), a mysterious man who may just hold the key to what happened to the ladies’ missing colleague. Ok! It’s a stage bound “Old Dark House” film that has noir shadings but is more in keeping with classic Gothic offerings like Jane Eyre, Uncle Silas and Gaslight. The setting is a doozy, a creaky and shadowy mansion with a secret room, add in a storm from hell, the foggy moors that hold secrets along with the patches of quicksand (quickbog?), a seriously brooding leading man greatly troubled by his past, a spunky heroine fronting up for love interest and some possible perilous shenanigans… and you are good to go for some dark deeds and closeted skeletons. Director Arliss builds the suspense very slowly, dangling snippets of information that teases the audience as to what might be going on in this shadowy abode. Stephen is a music composer, he is also a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, the effects of which has left him scarred. Why does he take tablets? Why is the moon significant? Now that his house servants have turned up, do they know what happened to the girl last year? It all builds towards the film’s chilling climax, where all is revealed, and not insultingly so. The cast all perform well under Arliss’ direction, with Mason honing the brooding lead man act that would serve him so well in his career. Cinematographer Gunther Krampf (Nosferatu/The Hands of Orlac) creates an eerie atmosphere of fog-bound menace out on the moors, and also a foreboding darkened house of shadows for the interior of the Deremid mansion. The slow pace may put some off, and you are asked to forgive one or two dumb character reactions to certain situations, but this rewards the patient and very much it's a film for Gothic thriller fans to seek out. 7/10
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Reviewed by preppy-3 7 / 10

Saw it many years ago and have never forgotten it

A very young James Mason plays a mysterious man who may know something about a young girls disappearance. Her friends try to find out what he knows.

I caught this on a cable TV station in the early 1980s. Back then there were a number of small cable stations starting up and they put on anything that they could get cheaply. The print I saw on this station was dreadful--VERY faded with some scenes so dark you could barely make out anything. The sound wasn't much better. Still I did like it and the final revelation of the killer (and the look on their face) chilled me. Also Mason was very good in an early role and it was a delight seeing him so young and full of energy.

This is a pretty obscure little film but worth seeing if you get the chance.

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