Summary
Artist David Stuart is blinded by a jealous model whose portrait he is painting. His fiance's father generously offers his eyes for a sight restoring operation. There's only one hitch: Stuart has to wait until after the man dies. Not surprisingly, when the benefactor dies a very premature death, suspicion falls on the artist.
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Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 45GoodWatch 50
IMDb6.0
Letterboxd · 1 K ratings3.0/5
Audience score17%
Running time
1 h 4 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 thrillers, −40 min on the typical 104
typical 10464Half of all thrillers run 94–118 min.
Reach
Streams in 2 countries
Released
1944
November 10, 1944
82 years ago
Genres
ThrillerCrimeMysteryLanguage
English
Original language
Made in
- United States
and 7 moreDirecting · 2
- Reginald Le Borg Director
- Seward Webb Assistant Director
Writing · 1
- Dwight V. Babcock Screenplay
Production · 2
- Ben Pivar Producer
- Will Cowan Associate Producer
Camera · 1
- Paul Ivano Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Milton Carruth Editor
Sound · 3
- Paul Sawtell Music
- Bernard B. Brown Sound Director
- William Hedgcock Sound Engineer
Art · 4
- Martin Obzina Art Direction
- John B. Goodman Art Direction
- Russell A. Gausman Set Decoration
- Leigh Smith Set Decoration
Costume & Make-Up · 1
- Vera West Costume Design
Visual Effects · 1
- John P. Fulton Visual Effects
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