Nightmare

Clarinetist Stan has a nightmare about killing a man in a mirrored room. But when he wakes up and finds blood marks on himself and a key from the dream, he suspects that it may have truly happened.

Cast

Edward G. Robinson

as Rene Bressard

Kevin McCarthy

as Stan Grayson

Connie Russell

as Gina

Virginia Christine

as Sue Bressard

Rhys Williams

as Deputy Torrence

Gage Clarke

as Belknap / Harry Britten

Marian Carr

as Madge Novick

Barry Atwater

as Captain Warner

Meade 'Lux' Lewis

as Meade

Ralph Brooks

as Oscar (Uncredited)

Reviews

John Chard

Stan Grayson is in a Jazz Funk. Maxwell Shane remakes his own 1947 film Fear in the Night but with a better known cast and more money. Adapted from Cornell Woolrich's novel, story has Stan Grayson (Kevin McCarthy) as a New Orleans clarinetist who dreams he has committed a murder in a heavily mir...

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