English lawyer Giles Gordon has been partially blinded during service in World War II, and fears his eyesight is worsening.

After a day of water sports in Monaco, he mistakenly enters a room of Alix's black market contacts.

Producer Hugh Stewart called the film "quite stylish" but was unhappy with the casting: The central character was a man who was going blind, and resentful of this fact – prickly and awkward, but nevertheless one should see the charm.

[4]The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Night Without Stars seems uncertain of its purpose: the first half, handled at a very slow pace, is a fairly simple love story with overtones of mystery; the second provides a solution to a rather tame problem.

As the love story is unconvincing and the mystery slight, the film's fundamental defect is shortage of material.

But even with this plot, and with dialogue of the most stilted kind, director and players might have done more than they have, Night Without Stars is lacking in form or style (a symptom of this is the strange use of loud background music played indiscriminately over the most trivial happenings on the screen) and is tediously acted by players who give the utmost weight to the clichés of the dialogue.

He's pushed off a cliff which forces him to get his sight restored and – very smart this – return to the Riviera still claiming to be blind so that he can trap the dirty rotters.

It was released in Austria as Nacht ohne Sterne, in Denmark as Natten uden stjerner, in Finland as Tähdetön yö, in Greece as Nyhta horis asteria, in Italy as Notte senza stelle, in Portugal as Quando a Luz Voltou, in Sweden as Natt utan stjärnor, and in West Germany as Nacht ohne Sterne.