This is an interesting and unusual film noir that should be on every film noir fan's "must watch" list. The cinematic effects used for a nightmare, in which our protagonist thinks he remembers a murder in a room filled with mirrors, lends itself to this disorienting psychological thriller...and physiological it is.
Poor bank teller Vince wakes from a nightmare in which he kills someone. He calls in sick to work and after a day spent trying to piece the nightmare together he seeks his brother-in-law police detective Cliff out to get him to help explain the unexplainable...because not only does he wake up with a key and blood on his wrist. Cliff tries to blow it off as Vince has been overworking. He places an ad in the newspaper in order to find the house in his nightmare.
On a relaxing picnic outing with his sister, brother-in-law, and sweetheart Betty...he finds the house with the mirrored room in Solanda Canyon...with serious deja vu they enter the home with Cliff noticing that Vince knows more than he should about the house. There's no longer a body locked in the room Vince left him in, but Cliff is now convinced due to some blood left in the room that Vince is a murderer and has been yanking his chain about the dream.
This psychological noir creates an interesting mystery that is solved by a tenacious soul who finally puts all the details together.
Poor bank teller Vince wakes from a nightmare in which he kills someone. He calls in sick to work and after a day spent trying to piece the nightmare together he seeks his brother-in-law police detective Cliff out to get him to help explain the unexplainable...because not only does he wake up with a key and blood on his wrist. Cliff tries to blow it off as Vince has been overworking. He places an ad in the newspaper in order to find the house in his nightmare.
On a relaxing picnic outing with his sister, brother-in-law, and sweetheart Betty...he finds the house with the mirrored room in Solanda Canyon...with serious deja vu they enter the home with Cliff noticing that Vince knows more than he should about the house. There's no longer a body locked in the room Vince left him in, but Cliff is now convinced due to some blood left in the room that Vince is a murderer and has been yanking his chain about the dream.
This psychological noir creates an interesting mystery that is solved by a tenacious soul who finally puts all the details together.