A New Orleans musician has a nightmare about killing a man in a strange house but he suspects that it really happened.A New Orleans musician has a nightmare about killing a man in a strange house but he suspects that it really happened.A New Orleans musician has a nightmare about killing a man in a strange house but he suspects that it really happened.
Ralph Brooks
- Oscar - the Bartender
- (uncredited)
Jack Chefe
- Nightclub Waiter
- (uncredited)
John Mitchum
- Onlooker at Stan's Suicide Attempt
- (uncredited)
Cosmo Sardo
- Nightclub Patron
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaWhen Stan goes out walking the morning after his nightmare, he passes by a place with a sign that says "New Orleans' Most Famous Coffee Drinking Place". That would be the Morning Call Coffee Stand that was on Decatur Street in the French Quarter. Opened in 1870, it moved to Metaire in 1974.
- GoofsAccording to the elevator there are only 15 floors in the hotel, but the shot of the building from outside shows more than fifteen.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Out of this World Super Shock Show (2007)
- SoundtracksWhat's Your Sad Story
Words and Music by Richard M. Sherman (as Dick Sherman)
Performed by Connie Russell / Billy May Orchestra
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Something lost in update, improvement on earlier movie
In the late 1940s, director Maxwell Shane made a very low budget psychological thriller called Fear in the Dark -- about a man waking from a nightmare that he's murdered a stranger, only to find it to be true. In 1956, Shane decided to remake it as Nightmare, with a name cast (Kevin McCarthy -- Mary's brother, for the record -- as the luckless dreamer, Edward G. Robinson as his brother-in-law the homicide cop). It's a very close remake, not as pointlessly literal as Gus Van Sant's cloning of Psycho, but with little changed except a better and more integrated jazz score. In sum, Nightmare boasts better acting and better production values, all of which serve to point up the basic cheesiness of the plot. The earlier version, looking a lot like a nightmare itself, lends its own low-rent integrity to Cornell Woolrich's bizarre vision.
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- Sep 24, 2001
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- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
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