Lance Comfort made a long string of excellent thrillers from the 40s and on, and this is just one more pearl in the necklace. Paul, a composer and pianist who composes pop music for a change to make money, is married to an actress, who married him before he went blind, and after the curtain fall of his blindness she would use do anything to get out of her marriage and to dispose of the blind pianist, of whom she is tired of just pitying. So she gets some lovers and use them in an intrigue to set her husband off. The script is very well written and cleverly composed, the dialog is excellent, and above all, the music is outstanding and veils the film in silk. You might object against the cynicism of this brilliant chamber play, but the character of the blind pianist (William Sylvester) outweighs any objection. More often than not, blind men acquire a second sight and deeper sensitivity and sharper sense of reality than any easily fooled superficial eyesight.
Review of Man in the Dark
