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A lawyer advises a blind man's rich widow tormented by nightmares.A lawyer advises a blind man's rich widow tormented by nightmares.A lawyer advises a blind man's rich widow tormented by nightmares.
Judi Meredith
- Joyce Holliday
- (as Judith Meredith)
Paulle Clark
- Pat
- (uncredited)
Forrest Draper
- Bit Role
- (uncredited)
Paul Frees
- Narrator
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Kathleen Mulqueen
- Customer
- (uncredited)
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- Writer
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- TriviaCo-stars Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor were married from 1939 to 1952. They had remained on good terms following their divorce.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Aweful Movies with Deadly Earnest: The Night Walker (1974)
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"The Night Walker" is a very strange film which is in some ways a bad film and in others it's quite good. The bad is the story itself. Although it has some great elements, it really doesn't make all that much sense (such as why didn't the lady ever seek out the police??) and it's best you just turn off your brain and enjoy this one.
The film is made by William Castle...so it's not surprising it starts off weirdly. The prologue is indescribly weird...like taking a hit of acid. You just have to see it to believe it. After, the actual story begins. It seems that a nutty old rich blind guy (Hayden Rorke) thinks his wife is cheating on him. Soon after talking to his lawyer about this, the guy burns up in a fire. Despite him being dead, the wife dreams of him and her dreams are incredibly vivid and disturbing. It has her beginning to question her sanity...as do appearances by a pretty young lover who doesn't seem to be real. What is really going on here?
Pairing Barbara Stanwyck and her ex-husband, Robert Taylor, was an interesting choice....and the film is filled with fantastically eerie camerawork and music...which, along with the husband's make-up, really terrify. If only the story were a bit more logical, I would have rated it higher, as the movie (much like Castle's "Strait-Jacket") is highly entertaining and creepy.
The film is made by William Castle...so it's not surprising it starts off weirdly. The prologue is indescribly weird...like taking a hit of acid. You just have to see it to believe it. After, the actual story begins. It seems that a nutty old rich blind guy (Hayden Rorke) thinks his wife is cheating on him. Soon after talking to his lawyer about this, the guy burns up in a fire. Despite him being dead, the wife dreams of him and her dreams are incredibly vivid and disturbing. It has her beginning to question her sanity...as do appearances by a pretty young lover who doesn't seem to be real. What is really going on here?
Pairing Barbara Stanwyck and her ex-husband, Robert Taylor, was an interesting choice....and the film is filled with fantastically eerie camerawork and music...which, along with the husband's make-up, really terrify. If only the story were a bit more logical, I would have rated it higher, as the movie (much like Castle's "Strait-Jacket") is highly entertaining and creepy.
- planktonrules
- Oct 16, 2018
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- William Castle's The Night Walker
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- Runtime1 hour 26 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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