The subtler aspects of detection are necessarily the focus of this tingler hinging on the exploits of a blind sleuth (played with unexpected restraint by Edward Arnold) and his seeing-eye dog, Friday. Our hero, at once vulnerable and impenetrable, on the trail of a "simple" case of murder, finds himself enmeshed in espionage when an inventor's peaceful home becomes a nest of evil after his willful stepdaughter (a young Donna Reed) inadvertently invites Nazi agents to come in and make themselves at home. Fred Zinnemann's second American feature (after The Kid Glove Killer) is omitted from most genre studies of film noir in favor of his definitive noir, Act of Violence. But Eyes in the Night came to light again at the 1986 Berlin Film Festival, where it was a surprise hit in a tribute to the director, who was born in Vienna and worked as a cameraman in Berlin in the twenties.