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Night of the Prowler

 

Night of the Prowler - 1962 | 60mins | Thriller | B&W

The Production Team

Director: Francis Searle.
Producer: John J. Phillips.
Script: Paul Erickson.
Cinematography: Gus Drisse and Walter J. Harvey.
Editing: Jim Connock.
Art Direction: George Provis.
Costume Design: Muriel Dickson.
Makeup Department: Harold Fletcher and Merwyn Medalie.
Sound: John Cox and Leslie Hammond.
Original Music: Johnny Gregory and Benny Lee.

The Cast

Patrick Holt - Robert Langton
Colette Wilde - Marie Langton
Bill Nagy Paul - Conrad
Mitzi Rogers - Jacky Reed
John Horsley - Inspector Cameron
Benny Lee - Benny
Marianne Stone - Mrs. Cross
Mark Singleton - Anders
Anthony Wager - Sgt. Baker

Plot Synopsis

British second-feature thriller. The director of a successful car-racing company, Trevor Watson, receives an anonymous phone call at work late in the evening; the cloaked caller later arrives at the company offices and guns down Watson. Watson’s partners, Paul Conrad (Bill Nagy) and Robert Langton (Patrick Holt), are dining at a club and receive a death threat warning them they are next on the killers list. Inspector Cameron (John Horsley) is assigned to the case, and suspicion soon falls on Don Lacey, a former employee newly released from prison that one of the directors had given evidence against in court. Conrad soon becomes suspicious that Lacey is a red herring, and that his greedy fellow director Langton could be the responsible, and trying to take control of the company for himself.