Night Must Fall
1964  NR  DRAMA  1h 41min
CAST— Albert Finney, Susan Hampshire, Mona Washbourne, Sheila Hancock, Michael Medwin, Joe Gladwin, Martin Wyldeck
MUSIC— Ron Grainer  DIRECTOR— Karel Reisz  BASED ON— Night Must Fall (play), by Emlyn Williams

     An excruciating experience in boredom lies within this tangled mass of celluloid garbage, so much so that anyone watching may need to seek immediate psychiatric help. The helplessly horrible film begins with a young man committing murder in the woods, then dumping the body in a pond. He then meets up with his girlfriend, a maid for a house not far from the scene of the crime. He soon begins to charm the owner of the house, a reclusive invalid with maternal issues. Meanwhile, the search is on for the missing person in the nearby woods and the young man is getting a kick out of watching the search party combing the area. He begins to show signs of emotional distress and by this time most of the audience is asleep and dreaming of a better movie.
OUR RATING— *
ORIGINAL— Night Must Fall (1937)