Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.

Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Ricardo Daly The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS**** Eddie Robinson, or Edward G. as he's known to his friends, as psychic John Triton has had these strange visions since back in 1928 that had turned his life upside down. The visions reveal the future to Triton in the most upsetting and frightening ways. Quitting his act as psychic "Triton the Magnificent" when he realized that he in fact did have psychic powers Triton has been living in the wilderness away from civilization in the slum drastic of Los Angeles for some time. That until he ran into both Jean Courtland and her pop Whitney, Gail Russell & Jerome Cowam, at a local L.A fund raising dinner and all of a sudden all these strange and terrifying visions started to come back to him. This lead to Jean attempting to kill herself by jumping in from of a speeding locomotive which her fiancée Elliott Carson, John Lund, saved her from doing.We soon learn that all of Triton's troubles started when he was working on stage as a psychic with both Jean's parents Whitney & Jenny, Virginia Bruce, Courtland some 20 years ago. It was then that Triton suddenly developed these psychic powers in seeing the future that completely freaked him out. Now seeing what's in store for Jean he's doing his best to prevent that from happening. The story is a long one but it's all about Whitney's involvement in the oil business. Having made millions over the years he now wants to cash in his chips, or oil interests, but there's someone behind the scenes that's trying to prevent him from doing it. Going so far in fixing his plane to make sure that Whitney end up crashing in it on his coast to coast flight from NY to LA. And it's Triton who foresaw that and couldn't prevent it from happening. Now the very same person is trying to murder Whitney's daughter Jean to keep her from inheriting her father's millions so that he, by both father and daughter dead, can get his hands on it!****SPOILERS*** No matter how accurate Triton's predictions are the police lead by Let. Shawn, William Demarest, feel that he's a phony and in fact is the one trying to murder Jean to get his hands on her father's money. This goes on throughout the entire movie until his predictions about her and who's behind her father's murder comes true with devastating accuracy! And it also ends up killing Triton in the process. A fact that Triton knew all along but kept from the police as well as himself ! In one of his most unusual roles Edward G. Robinson gives a realistic performance as psychic John Triton that knocks everyones socks off. He's so convincing as a man who can see the future that even his biggest detractors soon realize that there's something to his strange predictions even when there's no logic to them. Like at the very end the one about Jean's impending death, in being killed by an escaped lion, that's so on target that even the not so convinced Let. Shawn, who thought the guy was full of it, had to grudgingly admit that he's the real deal.

calvinnme The first scene is Elliott Carson (John Lund) rescuing his fiancée, Jean Courtland (Gail Russell) from committing suicide - he was told where and how by John Triton. He takes her into a nearby café where John Triton (Edward G. Robinson) is sitting at one of the café tables. Elliot assumes because of Jean's wealth that Triton is part of some kind of con game. Triton then begins his story in flashback. Years before he had a vaudeville act in which he pretended to be one who could see the future. As he says, "it was a phony act, but it was a first-class phony act". Then one night in the middle of a show he has his first real premonition and tells one particular woman that her child is in danger and she must run home. Another time he is talking to a little boy behind the theater and has a premonition that he will be run over by a car. He says something to change the boys plans - he gives him free tickets to the show. The boy says he needs to go tell his mom and, of course, he's run over by a car anyways. Meanwhile his - let us be kind and just call him "less deep and thoughtful" - colleague, Whitney Courtland (Jerome Cowan), is using John's ability to make a fortune in finance.Meanwhile John is haunted by the bad premonitions he is getting about which he can do nothing. The last is the worst though. He sees the future of his love, Jenny (Virginia Bruce). In his premonition the two marry, there is a child, the child lives but Jenny dies. So one night he clears out and decides to become a recluse. If he doesn't talk to anyone he can't see their bad end which he can't seem to change anyways. He knows Whitney will take care of Jenny, and he does. The two marry, have a child, and just as in his premonition, Jenny dies in childbirth. Gail Russell's character, Jean, is the daughter that would have been his, so he does keep track of her over the years. He moves to L.A. just to be in the same town as she and her dad. And then the trouble starts again. First he gets a premonition about Whitney's death when he hears about him trying to break a flight record. Thus he chances meeting Jenny's daughter Jean and warns her about the premonition he has. She tries contacting her dad, but it's too late. His plane has cracked up and Whitney is dead. Then John gets a premonition about Jean's death "under the stars", and we are back to the present, in the café.John wants to retreat back into his little world, but not until he can finally save someone, and not just anyone. He wants to save the daughter that might have been his had things been different. Of course now he has the suspicious fiancé to contend with along with the police whom the fiancé calls who say they found foul play involved in the crack up of Whitney's plane and suspect John as being part of some conspiracy plus they think he could be a little nuts and have the police psychiatrists examining him. Meanwhile Jean is in danger and is being guarded by skeptics. How will this all pan out? Watch and find out.Edward G. Robinson plays the melancholy clairvoyant just brilliantly as you can see how this supposed gift is weighing him down. Like Peter Boyle in the X-Files episode "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose", a gift is not much of a gift if all it does is give you visions of pain and death you can't seem to change. It is a very gloomy film from the start with the atmosphere of a noir, but not with the kinds of characters and situations normally associated with noir. Highly recommended.

harry-76 "The Night has a Thousand Eyes" is a most engaging drama, with Edward G. Robinson giving his all to the role of a clairvoyant. A wonderful Robinson performance. Gail Russell is seen in one of her best film appearances. John Lund is well cast as Russell's doubting but supportive love interest.The atmosphere created here has an almost hypnotic effect. Robinson is completely into his role and totally convincing.That this film has not yet to date made it on video is incredible. Of all the lesser films that did so, this movie warrants attention. Paramount Pictures [us]--please take note.

the lioness I've seen this film only once & loved it! It shows just how versitile of an actor Robinson really was.It tells the story of a man who discovers he really has the ability to see into the future. He becomes a recluse out of the fear that his predictions always come true. That same fear brings him out of reclusion when he seeks out the daughter of a woman he once loved to warn her of impending danger. The only thing I dislike about this film? It never made it to video. For anyone that would like to see this film's plot, I recommend "The Clarivoyant" with Claude Rains.