- BFI identifier28712
- Date1972 (Copyright)
1972-10-22 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisThriller. The marriage of an American heiress to a poor English man finds itself under strain when her friend Greta gets in the way. Sacked from a chauffeuring job, a young working class man, Michael, goes for a countryside wander round Gipsy’s Acre, a site on England's south coast where he longs to build his dream house. There he meets a young American lady, Ellie, and they form an attachment. A few weeks later, Michael's pride is wounded when he learns that Ellie is in fact a very wealthy heiress, and, to make matters worse, she has bought him the plot of land to build his house on. Defying her family's wishes, they get married, build their very modern dream house and, the odd mysterious incident aside (like a rock thrown at their french windows), they seem contented. Then a wedge is driven between them by the bustling about of Ellie's best friend Greta, whom Michael finds a busybody. A tragedy soon occurs, with a shocking truth behind it. (Synopsis)
- Genre
- CategoryFiction
- Subject
- CreditsDirected by: Sidney Gilliat
©: National Film Trustee Company Limited
Production Company: Frank Launder
view all - CastHayley Mills (Fenella Thompson. 'Ellie')
Hywel Bennett (Michael Rogers)
Britt Ekland (Greta)
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Title
Endless Night (Original)
Agatha Christie's Endless Night (Alternative)
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Script - Original story: Novel by Agatha Christie - SCR-7425
Script - Original story: Novel by Agatha Christie - SCR-7426
Script - Screenplay by Sidney Gilliat adapted from the novel by Agatha Christie, 22 August 1970 - SCR-51851
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-28712
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Photograph: transparency - SPD-294562
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- Endless Night
Work - 28712 - 1972 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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