# Shadowed Eyes
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{{short description|1940 film}}
{{italic title}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2016}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Shadowed Eyes
| image = Shadowed_Eyes_film_frame_(1940).jpg
| caption = [Patricia Hilliard](/source/Patricia_Hilliard_(actress)) and [Basil Sydney](/source/Basil_Sydney) in the film[{{Cite journal|date=2 March 1940|title=Shadowed Eyes|id={{ProQuest|1771146486}}|magazine=[Picturegoer](/source/Picturegoer)|volume=9|issue=458|pages=20}}]
| director = [Maclean Rogers](/source/Maclean_Rogers)
| producer = [A. George Smith](/source/A._George_Smith)
Kurt Sternberg
| writer = Roy Carter
[Herbert Hill](/source/Herbert_Hill_(writer)
[Arnold Ridley](/source/Arnold_Ridley)
| narrator =
| starring = [Basil Sydney](/source/Basil_Sydney)
[Patricia Hilliard](/source/Patricia_Hilliard_(actress))
[Stewart Rome](/source/Stewart_Rome)
| music =
| cinematography = [Geoffrey Faithfull](/source/Geoffrey_Faithfull)
| editing =
| studio = George Smith Productions
Savoy Productions
| distributor = [RKO Pictures](/source/RKO_Pictures)
| released = {{Film date|1940|03|02|df=yes}}
| runtime = 68 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget = £19,441[{{cite magazine|title='The highest salary ever paid to a human being': Creating a Database of Film Costs from the Bank of England |last=Chapman|first= Llewella|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|magazine=Journal of British cinema and television, 2022-10|volume=19|number=4|pages=470–494 at 482}}]
| gross =
}}
'''''Shadowed Eyes''''' is a 1940 British [crime film](/source/crime_film) directed by [Maclean Rogers](/source/Maclean_Rogers) and starring [Basil Sydney](/source/Basil_Sydney), [Patricia Hilliard](/source/Patricia_Hilliard_(actress)) and [Stewart Rome](/source/Stewart_Rome).[{{Cite web|title=Shadowed Eyes|url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150055735|access-date=10 May 2026|website=British Film Institute Collections Search}}][{{Cite web |title=BFI {{!}} Film & TV Database {{!}} Shadowed Eyes (1939) |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/50234 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114065050/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/50234 |archive-date=2009-01-14 |access-date=2026-05-10 |website=BFI |language=en}}] It was written by Roy Carter, [Herbert Hill](/source/Herbert_Hill_(writer)) and [Arnold Ridley](/source/Arnold_Ridley), and was produced at [Isleworth Studios](/source/Isleworth_Studios) in London as a [quota quickie](/source/quota_quickie) for distribution by [RKO Pictures](/source/RKO_Pictures).
== Preservation status ==
The [British Film Institute National Archive](/source/BFI_National_Archive) holds a collection of stills but no film or video materials.[{{Cite journal |date=1 January 1939 |title=Shadowed Eyes |volume=6 |issue=61 |pages=186 |id={{ProQuest|1305807911}} |magazine=[The Monthly Film Bulletin](/source/The_Monthly_Film_Bulletin)}}]
==Cast==
* [Basil Sydney](/source/Basil_Sydney) as Doctor Emil Zander
* [Patricia Hilliard](/source/Patricia_Hilliard_(actress)) as Doctor Diana Barnes
* [Stewart Rome](/source/Stewart_Rome) as Sir John Barnes
* [Ian Fleming](/source/Ian_Fleming) as Doctor McKane
* [Tom Helmore](/source/Tom_Helmore) as Ian
* Dorothy Calve as Marjorie
* [Ruby Miller](/source/Ruby_Miller_(actress)) as Mrs Clarke-Fenwick
==Reception==
''[The Monthly Film Bulletin](/source/The_Monthly_Film_Bulletin)'' wrote: "Given a good script, direction and acting, this exceedingly far-fetched story might have managed to hold the interest. As it is, the script is atrocious, the direction pedestrian in the extreme and the acting very poor."[{{Cite journal |date=12 October 1939 |title=Shadowed Eyes |volume=272 |issue=1695 |pages=27 |id={{ProQuest|2339770642}} |magazine=[Kine Weekly](/source/Kine_Weekly)}}]
''[The Daily Film Renter](/source/The_Daily_Film_Renter)'' wrote: "Far-tetched narrative fails to convince and situations are overmelodramatic, but film may get by with not too critical patrons. ... Conviction can hardly be described as the production's strong point, many of the situations being of a highly theatrical nature, while the actors are hard put to it to infuse life into their characterisations. Basil Sydney plays the surgeon with polish, but cannot achieve reality. Patricia Hilliard is the heroine, Stewart Rome the barrister and lan Fleming another doctor, and all three, together with other supporting cast members, also suffer from unbelievable roles."[{{Cite journal |date=9 October 1939 |title=Shadowed Eyes |volume= |issue=3873 |pages=4 |id={{ProQuest|3327058207}} |magazine=[The Daily Film Renter](/source/The_Daily_Film_Renter)}}]
== References ==
==External links==
*{{IMDb title|0031918}}
{{Maclean Rogers}}
Category:1940 films
Category:Films directed by Maclean Rogers
Category:1940 crime films
Category:British crime films
Category:British black-and-white films
Category:1940 English-language films
Category:1940 British films
Category:Quota quickies
Category:Films shot at Isleworth Studios
Category:RKO Pictures films
Category:English-language crime films
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