Nightmare (1956 film)

Nightmare
Theatrical release poster
Directed byMaxwell Shane
Screenplay byMaxwell Shane
Based onAnd So to Death
1941 story
by Cornell Woolrich
Produced byWilliam H. Pine
William C. Thomas
StarringEdward G. Robinson
Kevin McCarthy
Connie Russell
CinematographyJoseph F. Biroc
Edited byGeorge A. Gittens
Music byHerschel Burke Gilbert
Color processBlack and white
Production
company
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • May 11, 1956 (1956-05-11)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Nightmare is a 1956 American film noir crime film directed by Maxwell Shane and starring Edward G. Robinson, Kevin McCarthy and Connie Russell.

The story is based on a novel by William Irish (a pseudonym of Cornell Woolrich). The book had been previously adapted as the 1947 film Fear in the Night, originally titled Nightmare, also written and directed by Shane.