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Actors: Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Britt Ekland, George Sanders, Per Oscarsson
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Endless Night |
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Based on an Agatha Christie novel, ENDLESS NIGHT is a movie written and directed by Sydney Gilliat in 1971. Musical score by Bernard Herrmann.
A British cab driver marries one of the world wealthiest young girls. They build a dream house and are vainly looking for independence. One day, the young woman is found dead. Who did it?
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Endless Night |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 60%
How difficult to spot villain?
- Difficult, but some clues given
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1960's-1970's
Murder Mystery?
Yes
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- 40%
Special suspect?
- chronically deranged person
Kind of mystery?
- skilled citizen investigator
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- cab driver
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- caring
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn, straight
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
Setting
United States
Yes
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Italy
- England/UK
- Netherlands/Holland
Prairie?
Yes
City?
Yes
City:
- London
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- non-gory references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- frustrated
How many deaths in film?
- 2
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- sex under blankets
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 2 (a little)
Unusual forms of death
- poisoning
- drowned
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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