The Night Digger (Original title)The Visitor (Working title)The Road Builder (Working title)
Dates: 1971 (Copyright), 12 May 1971 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Alastair Reid
Synopsis: Contemporary suspense drama.
Genre: Thriller
Releases
Date: 1971Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Sound - MonoRuntime: 100 mins Length: 9007 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 12 May 1971Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Sound - MonoRuntime: 97 mins Dialogue (original): English
Dates: 1971 (Copyright), 12 May 1971 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Alastair Reid
Synopsis: Contemporary suspense drama.
Genre: Thriller
Releases
Date: 1971Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Sound - MonoRuntime: 100 mins Length: 9007 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 12 May 1971Country: USARelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour - Sound - MonoRuntime: 97 mins Dialogue (original): English
Credits
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©/Production Company: Yongestreet Productions, Made by: Tacitus, Presents: M.G.M., Executive Producer: William O. Harbach, Produced by: Alan D. Courtney, Norman S. Powell, Production Manager: John Oldknow, Location Manager: Bernard Hanson, Assistant to Miss [Patricia] Neal: Valerie Eaton-Griffiths, Assistant Director: Michael Dryhurst, Continuity: Jennifer Phillips, Casting Director: Mary Selway, Screenplay by: Roald Dahl, Based on the novel 'Nest in a Falling Tree': Joy Cowley, Director of Photography: Alex Thomson, Camera Operator: Mike Fox, Gaffer Electrician: Dave Clarke, Editor: John Bloom, Art Director: Anthony Pratt, Costume Designer: Gabriella Falk, Make-up: Ernest Gasser, Hairdresser: Joan Carpenter, Music Composed and Conducted by: Bernard Herrmann, Solo Viola d'Amore: Rosemary Green, Solo Harmonica: Tommy Reilly, Sound Recordist: Brian Marshall, Gerry Humphreys, Sound Editor: Chris Greenham, Made entirely on location and completed at: Twickenham Film Studios
Cast
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Patricia Neal (Maura Prince), Pamela Brown (Mrs Edith Prince, the mother), Graham Crowden (Mr Bolton), Jean Anderson (Mrs Millicent McMurtrey), Peter Sallis (Reverend Rupert Palafox), Yootha Joyce (Mrs Palafox), Brigit Forsyth (district nurse), Zoe Alexander (stroke patient), Nicholas Clay (Billy Jarvis), Sebastian Breaks (Dr Ronnie Robinson), Diana Patrick (Mary Wingate), Jenny McCracken (Jenny, the farm wife), Bruce Myles (bank clerk), Christopher Reynalds (young Billy), Elaine Ives Cameron (gypsy), Sibylla Kay (whore)