Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Maleeha Vincent It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

clanciai Edward Arnold is always a warrant for a film worth seeing more than once and with increasing interest. Here for once he plays the lead as a blind detective, and the question is whether he is the lead or his dog Friday. They work together and are indispensable to each other, but still also make it well on their own, even when trapped or locked up in a basement.As an experienced blind detective Arnold has many bags full of tricks, and some of them he gets the opportunity to use to turn a grim drama into a hilarious comedy. Getting drunk and playing the organ in the middle of the night to disturb all criminality going on, he brilliantly turns into the highlight entertainment of this film.The clever intrigue involves a theatre company as a cover up for serious counter spionage activity to endanger the nation, which Donna Reed as a young easily seduced girl is innocently unaware of and duped by, while her mother Ann Sheridan immediately senses the alarm. The interplay between these two characters is another interesting angle to the tale, while the dog ultimately steals the show. I saw it some ten years ago but enjoyed even more to see it again. This was in the beginning of Fred Zinnemann's long run as an outstanding director, but already here his excellence is impressing.

LeonLouisRicci A Cast of Familiars and Director Fred Zinnemann's Second Movie Makes this More Interesting than the Average Wartime B-Movie. There are Gimmicks Galore to Entertain. Edward Arnold as a Blind Detective Overacts and Gets On the Nerves Occasionally but is Helped Greatly by Some Gadgets and His Seeing Eye Dog Friday who Steals the Show.Donna Reed is a Bitchy Stepdaughter, and Katherine Emery as a Cold Blooded Nazi Spy Also Add Some Spice to the Proceedings. There are Stylistic Flourishes and Quite a Bit of Action and Intrigue.Just About Everybody Connected to This Movie did Better Things but as an Ensemble All Jammed Into this Entertaining Little Movie, Add Some Weight to This WWII, Audience Friendly, Piece of Fluff.

Azstu I thought this was a great movie. I found the concept of a lead blind detective and a very active smart sidekick, the dog made this a very unique movie to watch. Great use of the fact he was blind in some scenes. Not sure if the dog made it into other movies, but one very smart animal and this added another layer to the movie.The acting seemed a little stilted, but overall I found this to be very entertaining, and somewhat groundbreaking with the mix of character traits, plot and action scenes. Highly recommended.

Spikeopath Eyes in the Night is directed by Fred Zinnemann and adapted to screenplay by Guy Trosper and Howard Emett Rogers from Baynard Kendrick's novel The Odor of Violets. It stars Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Donna Reed, Stephen McNally, Katherine Emery, Allen Jenkins, Stanley Ridges and Friday the dog. Photography is shared between Robert Planck and Charles Lawton and the music is scored by Lennie Hayton. Plot finds Arnold as blind detective Duncan Maclain, also a judo expert, he is always accompanied by his intelligent seeing-eye dog, Friday. Maclain is called on to a murder case for his friend, Norma Lawry (Harding), but the body is missing and there appears to be something very sinister going on at the Lawry family home.A cracking little thriller boosted by a top cast (Donna Reed playing a bitch step-daughter!) and moody photography. What it lacks in simplicity of plot it more than makes up for in terms of execution and tone, with the added "gimmick" of the detective being blind further enhancing the effectiveness of the picture. In fact, that Arnold is so good, and his dog so brilliant (seriously, this is one great dog), it marks this out as ingenious considering the limits of the Wartime story. Zinnemann knits it together skillfully, never letting the pace sag or the tension drop, while there's some great scenes dotted throughout: such as one filmed in total darkness, lit up intermittently by the flash of pistol fire. With the film 99% set at night of in darkened rooms, this lets Planck (The Canterville Ghost/Moonfleet) & Lawton (3:10 To Yuma/The Tall T) dally in atmospheric shadows and murky low lights.Clocking in at a slim 80 minutes with never a dull moment, Eyes in the Night is one of the more enjoyable film's of its type. Deserves a bigger audience. 7.5/10