A blind playwright hears a crime he can't unhear — and you're his only witness.
Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped child. When he gets no help from the police, he along with his butler, and his ex fiancée, attempt to track down the crooks.
Direction
Hathaway's sound design puts you inside the blind protagonist's world.
Acting
Van Johnson's physicality sells blindness without theatricality.
Cinematography
Moody London locations shot on actual streets, not sets.
Director
Henry Hathaway
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Van Johnson spent weeks at a London school for the blind learning to navigate without sight.
This was 20th Century Fox's answer to Wait Until Dark, flipping the blind protagonist to male and adding class commentary through the butler dynamic.
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