Shadows in the Night (1944)
1h 7m | PG-13
A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion.
Director: Eugene Forde
Studio: Larry Darmour Productions
Genre: Crime
Video: 720p
Cast
Warner Baxter
as Dr. Robert Ordway
Nina Foch
as Lois Garland
George Zucco
as Frank Swift
Edward Norris
as Jess Hilton
Lester Matthews
as Stanley Carter
Ben Welden
as Nick Kallus
Reviews
When the young "Lois" (Nina Foch) starts having nightmares at her seaside home, she calls in the help of renowned psycho-sleuth "Ordway" (Warner Baxter) to help her out. He duly arrives at her rambling pile and finds on his first night that he has become a sleepwalker. Luckily he is found by "Uncle George" (George Zucco) on the beach and escorted back to the house where he discovers a body. Rousing "Lois" they return to discover it's gone! What is going on here? What's with the eerie smoke that hovers around the rooms at times? Is "Lois" just not quite the full shilling or is George Zucco up to his usual nefarious acting tricks? I quite liked this - it's dark and coastal scenario, bodies there then not and just a little chemistry do rather point us to the conclusion, but the whodunit element is still a little left field. It's production is basic, as is just about everything else - but it passes an hour enjoyably enough.