Post by Zone Fighter on Oct 20, 2006 18:39:13 GMT -8
Endless Night (1972)
Hayley Mills - Fenella 'Ellie' Thomsen
Hywel Bennett - Michael Rogers
Britt Ekland - Greta
George Sanders - Andrew Lippincott
David Bauer - Uncle Frank
Peter Bowles - Reuben Brown
Geoffrey Chater - Coroner
Patience Collier - Miss Townsend
Windsor Davies - Sergeant Reene
Mischa De La Motte - Maynard
Walter Gotell - Constantine
David Healy - Jason
Helen Horton - Aunt Beth
Robert Keegan - Innkeeper
Lois Maxwell - Cora Walker Brown
Robert O'Neil - Broker
Per Oscarsson - Santonix
Aubrey Richards - Dr. Philpott
Madge Ryan - Michael's Mother
Ann Way - Mrs. Philpott
Nicholas Courtney - Second Auctioneer (uncredited)
Leo Genn - Psychiatrist (uncredited)
Steven Wallen - Young Michael (uncredited)
Music by Bernard Hermann (yes the man who did the music for Pyscho)
Endless Night is based on a novel by Agatha Christie. Endless Night is one of Christie's stand alone novels, it does not feature Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple. Although the trailer which is included on the DVD makes this seem like a ghost story it is not.
Nicholas Courtney is known to Doctor Who fans as Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, a Colonel in the British Army (2nd Doctor) and then promoted to Brigadier (3rd and 4th Doctors) and made first head of the British branch of the United Nations Intelligence Task Force (UNIT). By the time of the 5th Doctor he's retired.
It's been a long time since I've read the book so I'm not sure how close this is too it, except I'm sure the film is placed in a more modern setting than Dame Agatha originally wrote the story for. I doubt she had a house with remote controled doors and windows or a pool hidden in the floor. And suspect that she would not have approved of the brief scene of a topless woman, which did not add anything to the story.
Poor boy meets rich girl. Poor boy marries rich girl and has his dream house built. They seem to be living happily ever after, with a few minor hiccups. Then rich girl drops dead one afternoon.
This not a typical Agatha Christie story, with a murder in the beginning and the rest of the story taking up the solving of the crime. Most of this story is spent on the romance between Michael Rogers and Fenella 'Ellie' Thomsen. So much so that you may forget this is an Agatha Christie mystery and that some one is going to be murdered. Forget that and you'll be shocked when it happens and possibly surprised by the killer. There was one scene that should have told me what was coming, if I had remebered that there is a simlar scene in a Hercule Poirot mystery when he warns the murderer before the murder happens, not to do it. The hint here was more subtle but it was there never the less.
There are red hearings a plenty to point you in the wrong direction but also hints to the true nature of the killer which a second viewing of the movie would probably make clear.
The title comes from a poem by William Blake, put to music by Bernard Hermann, and sang by the murder victim: "Every morn and every night Some to misery are born. Every morn and every night Some are born to sweet delight. Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night."
Hayley Mills - Fenella 'Ellie' Thomsen
Hywel Bennett - Michael Rogers
Britt Ekland - Greta
George Sanders - Andrew Lippincott
David Bauer - Uncle Frank
Peter Bowles - Reuben Brown
Geoffrey Chater - Coroner
Patience Collier - Miss Townsend
Windsor Davies - Sergeant Reene
Mischa De La Motte - Maynard
Walter Gotell - Constantine
David Healy - Jason
Helen Horton - Aunt Beth
Robert Keegan - Innkeeper
Lois Maxwell - Cora Walker Brown
Robert O'Neil - Broker
Per Oscarsson - Santonix
Aubrey Richards - Dr. Philpott
Madge Ryan - Michael's Mother
Ann Way - Mrs. Philpott
Nicholas Courtney - Second Auctioneer (uncredited)
Leo Genn - Psychiatrist (uncredited)
Steven Wallen - Young Michael (uncredited)
Music by Bernard Hermann (yes the man who did the music for Pyscho)
Endless Night is based on a novel by Agatha Christie. Endless Night is one of Christie's stand alone novels, it does not feature Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple. Although the trailer which is included on the DVD makes this seem like a ghost story it is not.
Nicholas Courtney is known to Doctor Who fans as Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, a Colonel in the British Army (2nd Doctor) and then promoted to Brigadier (3rd and 4th Doctors) and made first head of the British branch of the United Nations Intelligence Task Force (UNIT). By the time of the 5th Doctor he's retired.
It's been a long time since I've read the book so I'm not sure how close this is too it, except I'm sure the film is placed in a more modern setting than Dame Agatha originally wrote the story for. I doubt she had a house with remote controled doors and windows or a pool hidden in the floor. And suspect that she would not have approved of the brief scene of a topless woman, which did not add anything to the story.
Poor boy meets rich girl. Poor boy marries rich girl and has his dream house built. They seem to be living happily ever after, with a few minor hiccups. Then rich girl drops dead one afternoon.
This not a typical Agatha Christie story, with a murder in the beginning and the rest of the story taking up the solving of the crime. Most of this story is spent on the romance between Michael Rogers and Fenella 'Ellie' Thomsen. So much so that you may forget this is an Agatha Christie mystery and that some one is going to be murdered. Forget that and you'll be shocked when it happens and possibly surprised by the killer. There was one scene that should have told me what was coming, if I had remebered that there is a simlar scene in a Hercule Poirot mystery when he warns the murderer before the murder happens, not to do it. The hint here was more subtle but it was there never the less.
There are red hearings a plenty to point you in the wrong direction but also hints to the true nature of the killer which a second viewing of the movie would probably make clear.
The title comes from a poem by William Blake, put to music by Bernard Hermann, and sang by the murder victim: "Every morn and every night Some to misery are born. Every morn and every night Some are born to sweet delight. Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night."