An ex-gambler helps a beautiful widow, and becomes involved with a murder, secret agents, and saboteurs.An ex-gambler helps a beautiful widow, and becomes involved with a murder, secret agents, and saboteurs.An ex-gambler helps a beautiful widow, and becomes involved with a murder, secret agents, and saboteurs.
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- TriviaShooting lasted from August 25-mid October, released November 13.
- GoofsWhen Daniel Shane (Brian Donlevy) accuses a character of treason, he is warned that there are strict laws against libel in England. Libel applies to published statements. Since the accusation was spoken, not written, the correct term would be slander.
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Daniel Shane: [to Leslie Stafford] You've got a Tiffany front but a hock-shop in back - I can see through you like cellophane.
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Stumbles into the situation
Nightmare is one of those routine noir films with a wartime era plot from Universal that Alfred Hitchcock might have been able to put over. I saw elements of Saboteur, The 39 Steps and the later North By Northwest in the story.
What Nightmare does give us is a chance to look at Diana Barrymore in one of the few films she made. She certainly had the classical training that enabled her to cast as an Englishwoman who has just had her husband murdered. The husband is played by Henry Daniell and sadly he's on ever so briefly.
Daniell is working on discovering a 5th columnist in the wartime United Kingdom and he turns out to be in the family and titled. Brian Donlevy like any Hitchcockian hero sort of stumbles into the situation.
Nightmare is a good, but routine wartime espionage story. It's a no frills product from Universal which would not have afforded those added Hitchcock like touches to make it truly great.
What Nightmare does give us is a chance to look at Diana Barrymore in one of the few films she made. She certainly had the classical training that enabled her to cast as an Englishwoman who has just had her husband murdered. The husband is played by Henry Daniell and sadly he's on ever so briefly.
Daniell is working on discovering a 5th columnist in the wartime United Kingdom and he turns out to be in the family and titled. Brian Donlevy like any Hitchcockian hero sort of stumbles into the situation.
Nightmare is a good, but routine wartime espionage story. It's a no frills product from Universal which would not have afforded those added Hitchcock like touches to make it truly great.
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- bkoganbing
- Jul 25, 2015
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- Runtime1 hour 21 minutes
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