The Night Has Eyes
by Alan Kenningtonliterary work· published 1939
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The Night Has Eyes is a 1939 mystery thriller novel by the British writer Alan Kennington. On the Yorkshire Moors a schoolteacher meets and become attracted to a distinctly odd young man living in isolation from the world. In 1942 it was made into a British film of the same title directed by Leslie Arliss and starring James Mason and Joyce Howard. Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999. McFarlane, Brian . Four from the forties: Arliss, Crabtree, Knowles and Huntington. Manchester University Press, 2018.
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The Night Has Eyes was adapted into a 1942 film.
The Night Has Eyes1942 · film · 79 min · dir. Leslie Arliss · IMDb ↗IMDb6.2Two teachers, man-hungry Doris and restrained Marian, visit the Yorkshire moors a year after friend Evelyn disappeared there. On a stormy night, they take refuge in the isolated cottage of Stephen, one-time pianist shell-shocked in the Spanish Civil War. Doris flees as soon as the flood subsides; but Marian's suspicions about Evelyn's fate, in conflict with her growing love for Stephen, prompt her to stay on among the misty bogs.
