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Shadows in the Night (1944)

Crime | 67 minutes
3,33 3 votes

Genre: Crime / Mystery

Duration: 67 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Eugene Forde

Stars: Warner Baxter, Nina Foch and George Zucco

IMDb score: 6,3 (318)

Releasedate: 27 July 1944

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Shadows in the Night plot

"See the Crime Doctor solve the mystery of the eerie house on the cliff!"

Former criminal Dr. Robert Ordway is now a criminologist. Ordway is visited by the mysterious Lois Garland at three o'clock in the morning. Lois complains of nightmares, where suicide is a recurring theme. Ordway then decides to stay in her haunted house, located on the Pacific Ocean. Lois receives several mysterious guests and one of them is murdered. Ordway decides to unmask the culprit using hypnosis and begins investigating the dark cellars beneath Lois' house.

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Dr. Robert Ordway

Lois Garland

Frank Swift

Jess Hilton

Stanley Carter

Nick Kallus

Adele Carter

Frederick Gordon

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Bobbejaantje

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The third in the Crime Doctor series, starring Warner Baxter as "crime doctor" Robert Ordway. This whodunit takes place in an atmospheric west coast villa perched high above the cliffs, with scenes effectively set in outdoor locations.

A great screenplay that kept me guessing throughout the film. It's great to see Nina Foch at work as a "beautiful woman on the verge of madness"—one of the recurring themes in 1940s film noir. Warner Baxter combines his skills as a psychiatrist and detective to unravel the unfolding mystery. Just like in its predecessor, Crime Doctor's Strangest Case (1943), this film explores the mystery of dreams, another Freudian hobby of the 1940s. The comic relief with the coroner is kept to a reasonable minimum.

The final resolution seems a bit far-fetched, but that often happens with these kinds of films. Above all, it's enjoyable to enjoy the atmospheric way the story is filmed by Eugene Forde and cinematographer James S. Brown. Many scenes take place in darkness, with low-key lighting.

Great B-movie.

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Roger Thornhill

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Already excellently summarized above by Bobbejaantje. If my appreciation is slightly lower, that's because of the leading role: Warner Baxter is one of the more forgotten Oscar winners (for best leading role in In old Arizona from 1930) and comes across as a slightly less affable and much less expressive version of Ronald Colman; he does an adequate job here, but he's not someone who pulls me along, so for me the main interest has to lie in the plot and the general atmosphere, and luckily both are more than fine, with a nice list of suspects (including the always suspicious George Zucco) and a beautiful hotel with many rooms, secret passages and a sea view. And Nina Foch (who occasionally reminds me of Dorothy Lamour here) is, as always, adorable (but in the very neat way).

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