Eyes in the Night is a 1942 American crime mystery starring Edward Arnold, Ann Harding and Donna Reed.

Her headstrong 17-year-old step-daughter Barbara, herself a promising actress, is enamored with her leading man, the much older Lothario Paul Gerente.

Barbara is equally disdainful of Norma, and to spite her calls Paul in front of her to set up a tryst with him that night at his apartment.

Norma's husband Stephen is a scientist leaving on a trip to test a secret invention he has been developing for the U.S. WW II war effort.

A man arrives to replace the rug, and Mac overhears him call to Norma's number saying it's "Gabriel" and asking for "Vera."

His blindness lulls any suspicions Hansen the butler - second in command of a German espionage ring seeking to get Steven’s secret plans - might have about him.

Stephen arrives home and Cheli threatens to have Norma’s face disfigured if he does not surrender the final step to his invention.