Night Watch
Night Watch is a 1973 mystery thriller film directed by Brian G. Hutton from a screenplay by Tony Williamson, based on the 1972 play of the same name by Lucille Fletcher. The film reunited Elizabeth Taylor with co-star Laurence Harvey from their 1960 collaboration BUtterfield 8. It was the last time the pair acted together on screen. Some of the story elements recall the plot outline of the 1944 film Gaslight.
Plot
One night, during a raging thunderstorm, Ellen Wheeler frantically tells her husband, John, that from the living-room window, she has seen a man with a slit throat in a chair by the window in the large, old, deserted house across the way. John calls the police, but a search of the old house finds no evidence of a murder.
More details
| author | Evan Jones Tony Williamson |
|---|---|
| director | Brian G. Hutton |
| editor | John Jympson |
| genre | horror mystery thriller |
| keywords | bury car accident claim deserted house detective inspector even kill laburnum learn lose morning move nervous breakdown nothing old house one night phone call police search slit throat suffer trespass wander |
| musicBy | John Cameron |
| producer | Barnard Straus George W. George Martin Poll |
| productionCompany | Brut Productions Nightwatch Films |
| publisher | AVCO Embassy Pictures |
| theme | mystery thriller psycho-biddy |