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A man dreams he committed murder, then begins to suspect it was real.A man dreams he committed murder, then begins to suspect it was real.A man dreams he committed murder, then begins to suspect it was real.
Jeff York
- Deputy Torrence
- (as Jeff Yorke)
Joey Ray
- Contractor
- (scenes deleted)
Loyette Thomson
- Waitress
- (scenes deleted)
Gladys Blake
- Bank Clerk
- (uncredited)
Jack Collins
- Man
- (uncredited)
Leander De Cordova
- Man
- (uncredited)
Christian Drake
- Elevator Operator
- (uncredited)
Stanley Farrar
- Bank Patron
- (uncredited)
Julia Faye
- Rental Home Owner
- (uncredited)
John Harmon
- Clyde Bilyou
- (uncredited)
Michael Harvey
- Bob Clune
- (uncredited)
Stuart Holmes
- Man with Packages in Elevator
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaThe film marked Maxwell Shane's directorial debut, and the feature film debut of DeForest Kelley (1920--1999), a prolific character actor in both motion pictures and television who was best known for his role as "Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy" on the television series Star Trek and its subsequent feature film adaptations.
- GoofsWhen Vince Grayson is ordered by Belknap to write his suicide note, he misspells Belknap as "Belnap", leaving out the "k".
- Quotes
Vince Grayson: I've got an honest man's conscience... in a murderer's body.
- Crazy creditsAuthor Cornell Woolrich is billed as "William Irish", one of his regular magazine pseudonyms.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Carolina (2003)
Featured review
I Dreamt I Killed In Mirrored Halls
Deforest Kelley has a nightmare in which he kills a man. He can't go in to work, so he goes driving with his sister and girl friend and brother-in-law Paul Kelly... to the house in which he dreamt the murderer.
It's a film noir from a story by Cornell Woolrich, so you know up front that it's going to be overwrought. It's also Kelley's first feature, and screenwriter Maxwell Shane's debut as director. Given the poor condition of the copy I looked at -- plenty of hiss on the audio track, as well as looking as if it was made from a 16mm. TV print -- I was not able to evaluate cinematographer Jack Greenhalgh's visuals, so important for a movie with extensive dream sequences.
Even with those handicaps, I was able to see the basic competence of this Pine-Thomas production. There's little that fancy about the production, but the ripeness of the source material, the solid actors (Ann Doran has a solid role, and old Demille hand Julia Faye an uncredited bit) make this an agreeably disagreeable noir.
It's a film noir from a story by Cornell Woolrich, so you know up front that it's going to be overwrought. It's also Kelley's first feature, and screenwriter Maxwell Shane's debut as director. Given the poor condition of the copy I looked at -- plenty of hiss on the audio track, as well as looking as if it was made from a 16mm. TV print -- I was not able to evaluate cinematographer Jack Greenhalgh's visuals, so important for a movie with extensive dream sequences.
Even with those handicaps, I was able to see the basic competence of this Pine-Thomas production. There's little that fancy about the production, but the ripeness of the source material, the solid actors (Ann Doran has a solid role, and old Demille hand Julia Faye an uncredited bit) make this an agreeably disagreeable noir.
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- Also known as
- And So Scared to Death
- Filming locations
- 1203 West 7th Street, Los Angeles, California, USA(Commodore Hotel)
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- Runtime1 hour 12 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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