Endless Night
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Movie Reviews of Endless Night
Movie Review: Two's Company, Three's A Shroud...
Summary: 5 Stars
Hayley Mills and Hywel Bennett star as two young strangers who meet, fall in love, and get married. He is a former chauffeur, and she is an heiress worth millions. Of course, her family is against the whole idea, and their attorney (George Sanders) offers big money for a quick divorce! This does not bother these lovebirds. After all, their relationship is built on stronger stuff. It is a romance for the ages. Enter Britt Ekland (The Wicker Man) as Mills' old friend, and things really get interesting. Ekland moves in w/ the young couple, causing strain on the marriage. Plus, odd occurances begin chipping away at the tranquil atmosphere, causing a rising sense of dread. ENDLESS NIGHT has a nice, sudden jolt to it that takes us from a love story w/ vaguely mysterious elements, and hurls us into a story of greed, insanity, and murder. All of the characters are wonderful, especially Hayley Mills (whom I've loved since the original Parent Trap). As for the major twist in ENDLESS NIGHT, it is said that only 3 people in 100 can see it coming. I was (happily) in the vast majority who had their jaws dropped! Highly recommended...Movie Review: A Shocking Twist For a Well Made Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Endless Night was not exactly what I would call a horror or a thriller, but the suspense and feeling that I got while watching this film were very strong. This movie had no unneeded scenes, characters, or phrases. Everything played an important part in the plot of this movie. The plot began as the mood was set as dull and sympathetic. Then all of a sudden, about 45 minutes into the film, the twist hit me harder than any I've ever seen before. I had to watch the movie twice to catch all the details. Hywel Bennett successfully portrayed Michael Rogers, and in doing so, captured several important literary elements. After all, a movie is simply a translation of a work of literature onto the big screen. As I was uncovering all of the twists to this movie, I realized that nothing was as it seemed. A perfect symbol was used to represent this movie - an auction. I hope that others may feel the same way as I did about this movie.Movie Review: ....some are born to endless night.
Summary: 5 Stars
This Agatha Christie thriller has adapted very well to the screen. Hayley Mills and Hywel Bennett make an excellent team in this very dark and mysterious story of love, and greed. Bennett has understood what`s wanted from him for the film and gives a fantastic performance. The haunting theme by Bernard Herrman adds colour and depth to this story which although made in the 70's, has aged very well.
Definitely not to be missed. Dir. Sidney Gilliat.
From Meryl Heasman [...]
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Summary: 5 Stars
This was just like the book written by Agatha Christie. I have read all of her books and this was the scarest and closest to reality. I couldn't believe there was a nude scene!!Movie Review: " ... und doon't fourgett mah green sheeld stahmps!"
Summary: 4 Stars
" ... und doon't fourgett mah green sheeld stahmps!"
(My title comes from a line a Scottish customer says to our protagonist, Mike, while we see him at work at a filling station.)
I read the book "Endless Night" a couple years back ... it was my former girlfriend and now fiancée's very favorite Agatha Christie novel, and she gave it to me to read as soon as she was done. I found it a most unusual book ... very unlike the other works of her's that I had read, and a couple of months after I'd finished it I began to wonder if there might have been a movie based on it. Though I didn't expect there to be, I was surprised to discover that there was ... Amazon wasn't selling it at the time, and so I managed to snag a new copy of of eBay for a very reasonable price. My girlfriend and I watched the DVD very soon afterward, and we had rather differing opinions ... My girlfriend was less than enchanted, disliking the dated seventies-ness in particular, but I on the other hand enjoyed the film very much, for a number of reasons.
First off, as other reviewers have said here already, it's very reminiscent of the work of one of my very favorite filmmakers (if not my very favorite), Alfred Hitchcock. The fact that Bernard Herrmann, a favorite composer of Hitchcock's, created the score for this helps support that feeling considerably ("Endless Night" was, by the way, released the same year as Hitchcock's penultimate film, "Frenzy"). Great music ... very atmospheric, eerie, and evocative.
The second reason why this movie is so good has really to do with the story, which can of course be credited to Mrs. Christie. A young but seemingly likeable-enough moped-driving slacker (Hywell Bennett, who has a face I just know I've seen somewhere else before) meets up with a very very very rich young and beautiful American heiress (the charming Hayley Mills) with a strangely British extended family (maybe we're just supposed to pretend they don't have accents) and her best friend, a German girl by the name of Greta (Britt Eckland). If you haven't read the book and will be seeing the movie first, I'd better not say any more ... there are a lot of surprises in store for you, and I'd really hate to spoil them. However, I should also mention the presence of the always enjoyable George Sanders in the role of Hayley Mills' uncle/lawyer, Mr. Lippincott (kids who were raised on Disney movies will recognize his voice as Shere Kahn's from "The Jungle Book"). Also, Swedish actor Per Oscarsoon is very memorable as a flamboyant architect who befriends Hywell Bennett (and seems to constantly be coming onto him, if you ask me). Great cast, everyone.
In addition to the Hitchcockian direction and music, the cast, and story, there are a lot of little things that make this movie so memorable. Throughout the film, from start to finish, are a number of bitingly humorous bits of dialogue, some creepy fantasy visuals (particularly, the faceless Ellie and the scarecrow mockup of the Gypsy woman), and effective and unsettling flashbacks (any of Bennett's childhood scenes ... does the first of them, with the drawing of the house, hint at some kind of abuse suffered at the hands of his father?). Also, toward the end of the film when Bennett and Sanders are riding together in a car ... look in the rear windshield and tell me what you see reflected in it.
"Endless Night" contains a fascinating story (even for those of us who know the end) and boasts some fine actors and production values. It's not all that expensive, and even though there isn't a lot on the DVD in the way of extras (just a trailer) you'll still be getting a solid hour and forty minutes of uneasy entertainment. It's a great movie to watch at night, and if you're anything like me you'll want to come back and revisit it every six months or so. Read the book too!
Carry on Carry on,
MN
PS - during the second auction which Bennett's character attends with Dr Philpot, take a good look at the auctioneer ... it's an uncredited Nicholas Courtney, who all good "Doctor Who" fans will recognize as Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart.