Endless Night (1972 film)

Endless Night
Theatrical release poster
Directed bySidney Gilliat
Screenplay bySidney Gilliat
Based onEndless Night
by Agatha Christie
Produced byLeslie Gilliat
Starring
CinematographyHarry Waxman
Edited byThelma Connell
Music byBernard Herrmann
Production
companies
Distributed byBritish Lion Films (British Isles)
EMI Films (worldwide)
Release date
  • 5 October 1972 (1972-10-05) (UK)
Running time
95 min.
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£250,197[2]
Box office£345,269[2]

Endless Night is a 1972 British horror-mystery film directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring Hayley Mills, Britt Ekland, Per Oscarsson, Hywel Bennett, and George Sanders. Based on the 1967 novel Endless Night by Agatha Christie, the plot follows a newlywed couple who feel threatened after building their dream home on cursed land.

This was the last project on which Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder worked together for British Lion Films, their home since The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950).

  1. ^ "Endless Night (1972)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 16 June 2017.
  2. ^ a b Chapman, J. (2022). The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945-1985. Edinburgh University Press p 357. Income is distributor's receipts, combined domestic and international, as at 31 Dec 1978.

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