Maxwell Shane

Fear in the Night -- A man dreams he committed murder, then begins to suspect it was real.

Fear in the Night -- (1947) DeForest Kelley, Paul Kelly, Ann Doran. An outstanding film noir, horror thriller about a man sho dreams that he commits murder and when he awakens, discover he may actually have committed it in real life...

Dana Andrews turns in a delightfully tough performance as a cowboy wrongly accused of killing his former fiancee's brother. An angry lynch mob strings him up, but rather than killing him, they let him loose to prove his innocence. Noose-scarred, he turns coldblooded and hunts down the real killer.

Offered a job to track down a priceless ruby that went missing after a plane vanished in the Caribbean, down-on-his-luck former attorney Mike Cormack (John Payne) soon discovers the plane's pilot is married to Janet (Mary Murphy), Mike's ex-fiancée who broke his heart. Now he must try to unravel Janet's web of lies even as he finds himself falling for the double-crossing temptress all over again in this film noir adventure.