The Night Caller

The Night Caller - 1965 | 85 mins | Sci-Fi | B&W

The Production Team

Director: John Gilling.
Producer: Ronald Liles and John J. Phillips.
Script: Jim O'Connolly. (from the novel The Night Callers by Frank Crisp)
Cinematography: Stephen Dade.
Editing: Philip Barnikel.
Production Design: Harry White.
Costume Design: Lindy Hemming and Michael O'Conner.
Makeup Department: Joyce James and Bunty Phillips.
Sound Department: John Cox and Kevin Sutton.
Original Music: Johnny Gregory.

The Cast

John Saxon - Dr. Jack Costain
Alfred Burke - Detective Supt. Hartley
Patricia Haines - Ann Barlow
Maurice Denham - Dr. Morley
Ballard Berkeley - Cmdr. Savage
John Carson - Major
Stanley Meadows - Det. Tom Grant
Barbara French - Joyce Malone
David Gregory - Pvt. Jones
Marianne Stone - Madge Lilburn
Warren Mitchell - Reg Lilburn

Plot Synopsis

Well-crafted British sci-fi thriller intelligently scripted by Jim O'Connolly with a harsh warning of the long-term effects of atomic science. An alien mutant from Ganymede, one of Jupiter's moons, lands near London in order to kidnap women for breeding, thus reviving their ailing race. After receiving an unusually high number of reports of missing women, policeman Detective Hartley (Alfred Burke) begins to search for an explanation. Meanwhile, Jack Costain (John Saxon), an earnest American scientist, investigates the dramatic increase in UFO activity.

A wanted advert in Bikini Girl magazine raises suspicion when young girls responding begin to disappear. The alien is using the moniker Medra, and the police set a trap using a decoy, Anne (Patricia Haines), but Medra proves to be both wily and deadly in equal measure and makes his escape. The authorities eventually corner the alien just as he is on the verge of returning home with his prey.