The Night Visitor
The Night Visitor (Swedish title: Papegojan) is a 1971 Swedish psychological thriller film in English, starring Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Trevor Howard, Per Oscarsson, Rupert Davies and Andrew Keir, and directed by Laslo Benedek.
Plot
Salem is an insane asylum inmate after being forced to take an insanity plea when wrongly convicted of murdering his farmhand. Salem escapes confinement from the fortress-like asylum in the dead of winter. Driven insane from being institutionalized for the last two years, he reaches his family farm, now run by his younger sisters Emma and Ester and the latter's husband Dr. Anton Jenks, who accused Salem of the murder.
More details
| author | Guy Elmes |
|---|---|
| director | László Benedek |
| editor | Bill Blunden |
| genre | thriller |
| keywords | driven insane force fur coat insane asylum insanity plea lethal injection murder police inspector run sedative |
| musicBy | Henry Mancini |
| producer | Mel Ferrer |
| theme | psychological thriller |