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Dead Man's Eyes is a 1944 Inner Sanctum mystery film directed by Reginald Le Borg, and starring Lon Chaney, Jr. and Jean Parker. The film was distributed by Universal Pictures. The "Inner Sanctum" franchise originated with a popular radio series and all of the films star Lon Chaney, Jr.
Usage examples of "dead man's eyes".
He paused, bumfuzzled, when he saw her sitting in the darkened living room, the blinds all closed like a dead man's eyes.
Not law-type honest -- I'd rob a grave, I'd steal two-bits off a dead man's eyes if I thought it would contribute to the day's enjoyment -- but unto-thyself-type honest.
Come then, you bag of pig gut, or all will know you are less than a man, less even than the worms that feed on dead man's eyes.
Take the coppers from a dead man's eyes, he would, and might even hasten the dying.
One lay crushed beneath a toppled horse that finally went limp, and a young male priest knelt to close the dead man's eyes.
While the troopers held the beautiful shroud out of harm's way, Cardinal Lourdusamy poured the heavy chalice's blood onto the dead man's eyes, into his gaping mouth, into the raw knife wound, and down the chest, belly, and groin of the corpse, the spreading scarlet matching and surpassing the intensity of color in the Cardinal's robes.
Pieri's last smile was still frozen on his face when the healer gently closed the dead man's eyes.