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The Fatal Night
Directed by Mario Zampi
Written by
Produced byMario Zampi
Starring
Cinematography Cedric Williams
Edited by Giulio Zampi
Music by Stanley Black
Production
companies
  • Anglo Films
  • Veneficus Films
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date
  • 11 July 1948 (1948-07-11)
Running time
50 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
Language English

The Fatal Night is a 1948 British thriller film directed by Mario Zampi and starring Lester Ferguson, Jean Short and Leslie Armstrong. [1] It is based Michael Arlen's 1925 short story The Gentleman from America, which tells the story of an American visitor in London who makes a bet with two Englishmen to see if he can spend a night alone in a "haunted" room. The story was adapted for the screen by British crime novelist Gerald Butler. The same story, under its original title, was adapted in 1956 as an episode of the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Chibnall & McFarlane p.34

Bibliography

  • Chibnall, Steve & McFarlane, Brian. The British 'B' Film. Palgrave MacMillan, 2009.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Fatal Night
Directed by Mario Zampi
Written by
Produced byMario Zampi
Starring
Cinematography Cedric Williams
Edited by Giulio Zampi
Music by Stanley Black
Production
companies
  • Anglo Films
  • Veneficus Films
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release date
  • 11 July 1948 (1948-07-11)
Running time
50 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
Language English

The Fatal Night is a 1948 British thriller film directed by Mario Zampi and starring Lester Ferguson, Jean Short and Leslie Armstrong. [1] It is based Michael Arlen's 1925 short story The Gentleman from America, which tells the story of an American visitor in London who makes a bet with two Englishmen to see if he can spend a night alone in a "haunted" room. The story was adapted for the screen by British crime novelist Gerald Butler. The same story, under its original title, was adapted in 1956 as an episode of the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Cast

References

  1. ^ Chibnall & McFarlane p.34

Bibliography

  • Chibnall, Steve & McFarlane, Brian. The British 'B' Film. Palgrave MacMillan, 2009.

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