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The Night Has a Thousand Eyes

Screen Directors Playhouse · February 27, 1949 · 29 min · 3,303 words

The transcript of “The Night Has a Thousand Eyes”, an episode of Screen Directors Playhouse first broadcast February 27, 1949. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Screen Directors Playhouse plays Screen Directors Playhouse free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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From Hollywood, the NBC Theater presents The NBC Theater presents the Screen Director's Guild production of A Chronicle of Fear.

Paramount's Night is a Thousand Eyes with its original team of Screen Director John Farrow, Screenestar Edward G. Robinson and William Demmon. Although technical and artistic skills are the everyday instruments of the motion picture The very heart of his craft is fashioned from another sort of knowledge.

The knowledge of the world in which he lives, and that can be gained only by living a life rich in experience. Such is the background of tonight's guest on the NBC theater. A native Australian, he has been a seamen, soldier of fortune, adventurer at large, and has made an enduring mark as a scholarly writer of fiction and non-fiction.

fiction. Here then is the director of many famous Paramount films such as Wake Island, Two Years Before the Masked, The Big Clock, The Soon to Be Released, alias Nick Beale, and tonight's story, Night Has a Thousand Eyes. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. John Farrell.

Night Has a Thousand Eyes is a story of the supernatural, but it is not a flight of fancy. Counter parts of the strange phenomena in tonight's story have been the subject of recent scientific study by some of our universities. Thus, through the medium of film and now through the radio, we attempt to reveal a bizarre and a rather terrifying aspect of the strange,

strange world in which we live. Now for the first time on the air, here is Night has a Thousand Eyes, starring Edward G. Robinson as John Triton with William Demerist as Lieutenant John. In the drawing room of a finds a bourbon home a young man named Carson reads a strange manuscript while the company listens gravely and silently.

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