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The Night Has Eyes, released in the United States as Terror House by Producers Releasing Corporation and re-released in the US by Cosmopolitan Pictures in 1949 as Moonlight Madness, is a 1942 British thriller film directed by Leslie Arliss starring James Mason, Joyce Howard, Wilfrid Lawson, Mary Clare.
The Night Has Eyes. Two young teachers travel to the Yorkshire Moors where their friend disappeared a year before. Before long, they have encountered the man they believe to be her murderer.
- 79 min
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.
Having served as a romantic backdrop for many works of British literature (see the Brontë sisters), the Yorkshire Moors symbolize both heaven and hell in Leslie Arliss’ The Night Has Eyes, a romantic thriller in which stunning atmospherics thankfully distract us from any gaps in story or suspense.
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.
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- Horror, Mystery, Thriller
- Leslie Arliss
- 1942-06-01
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.
The Night Has Eyes ★★½ Terror House 1942. Tense melodrama concerns a young teacher who disappears on the Yorkshire moors at the same spot where her girlfriend had vanished the previous year. Early film appearance for Mason. 79m/B VHS, DVD .
