I gave it a 7.5 out of 10

Awesome Movie

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Endless Night is from an Agatha Christie Miss Marple mystery and the observant and neutral Miss Marple has been taken out of this film adaption. The perpetrator is brought to justice by his own psychological defenses falling apart.This is one particular mystery in which I can say absolutely nothing in going into the plot without giving too much away. It concerns young Hywel Bennett who is a working class kid who aspires to the good life, but who really hasn't a work ethic to succeed. Without knowing it he meets up with Hayley Mills the 6th richest girl in the world although she says she's more like the sixteenth. No matter though it seems like a storybook romance. They even build a house together at a place called Gypsy Meadow which is said to be cursed. After that things start happening that makes one believe in a gypsy curse.Whether it's Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple as the protagonist Agatha Christie works are structured to make the protagonist be the honest observer of events. Take that out and the structure is unbalanced. Why they didn't make this a Jane Marple story who knows.Mills and Bennett who already did The Family Way and Twisted Nerve together worked well as a team, but Jane Marple was needed here.I can't say any more about this film except that in the end there are a few dead bodies all coming in the last third of the film. Agatha Christie fans will note a distinct similarity to the murder plot uncovered in the Hercule Poirot story Death On The Nile to this one. That's all I'm going to say.

There are not enough bad adjectives to describe how horrible this film is. Regardless of how faithful it is to Ms. Christie's book, the film is terrible. The acting stinks. The scenery is so fake in many scenes that the only enjoyable part of the movie is laughing at how bad the backgrounds are. There is no emotional bond developed to any of the characters. Except for basic instincts of humanity, I couldn't have cared less if all of the characters died. Finally, there is no twist at the end as other reviewers have indicted that there is. If anyone did not see the ending coming, they were too distressed by the horrible acting to pay attention to the story. There is a reason the movie was not released in America - it's abysmal! I wish that I could charge the producers for the lost hour and one-half of my life. I would rate it as a negative infinity if I could.

I first saw this on BBC1 1985 Sat late film before close down and even still have it on Video.Its made on a budget from a period when we had some great low budget British Films.The Gipsies acre setting on Brighstone Down,Isle of Wight with Ellie dancing is magical and i've visited this area.Some wonderful stars such as George Sanders and Britt Eckland.It has some really scary moments.My favourite scene has Michael Rodgers working at the filling station and a local Lord with his Roller handing him money,then saying "don't forget my Green Shield Stamps". Foolhardy Reuben with his Jensen Interceptor and Ms Moneypenny(Lois Maxwell) as his wife.It keeps you in suspense the whole 99 mins with lovely music and Hayley mills singing the theme tune on the house piano. A real twist at the end.I have the original poster-"One in ten guess the answer".Please do not remake.

Well, this definitely wasn't what I initially expected, but nonetheless "Endless Night" is a respectable and slow-brooding mystery thriller from the pen of the legendary Agatha Christie. This is actually one of those films of which the impact mainly comes afterwards, when the subject matter had its time to sink in. It probably won't ever become one of my personal favorite thrillers because the pacing is too slow, the screenplay is overly talkative and there aren't any memorable shock sequences, but you have got to admire director Sidney Gilliat's skills of suspense-building and generating an ominous atmosphere. I primarily wanted to watch "Endless Night" because it reunites the two lead players of the marvelous British shock-picture "Twisted Nerve" (Hywel Bennett and the indescribably ravishing Hayley Mills) and then additionally features no less than Britt Ekland ("The Wicker Man") and George Sanders ("Village of the Damned"). Great British cast, to say the least.Michael Rogers is a poor chauffeur with great ambitions and nearly unrealizable dreams. The building of his dream house on a fantastic piece of landscape suddenly becomes possible when he starts dating the sixth richest girl in the world … without even being aware of it! Obviously Ellie's family and financial counselors heavily protest against her relationship with the undoubtedly greedy young lad, but the couple conquers all relationship tests and stick together. Still, once they are settled on their dreamy hillside, mysterious events begin to occur. Ellie receives visits from an uncanny and crazy cat-lady (who very well may have been the inspiration for the character in "The Simpsons" with the same name) and offers shelter to her childhood nanny Greta even though she clearly doesn't get along with Michael. For a very long time – approximately two thirds of the whole film – you will wonder where Agatha Christie is going with the plot. "Endless Night" only turns into a mystery thriller during the last fifteen minutes. All the foregoing is actually just relationship drama and moody psychological studies. The remotely infamous twist near the end is indeed quasi unpredictable, but also highly implausible in my humble opinion. Obviously I can't write too much without revealing essential key information, but if a man is put to the choice between a beautiful rich girl and a beautiful poor girl … it isn't such a tough decision.