Endless Night (1972) on Netflix
Michael Rogers, an aimless chauffeur and aspiring photographer in London, dreams of a grand house on a plot along the Devon coast. Ellie Thomsen, a young American, buys the land.
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Plot summary
Michael Rogers is a wistful, aimless young photographer who works as a chauffeur and lives with his mother in London. He aspires to luxury and fine art, and he discovers a spot on the Devon coast called Gypsy's Acre, where he dreams of building a house designed by Santonix, a famous Italian architect he met through a client. While photographing the plot, he meets Ellie Thomsen, a young American traveling in England. She leaves for Switzerland and Italy with Greta, her German tutor and assistant, and Michael learns that she is one of the wealthiest young women alive. Ellie returns and reveals that she has bought Gypsy's Acre and arranged for Santonix to build his home. They marry in Wales, and the family's attorney, Andrew Lippincott, tries to buy Michael off.
Cast
- Ann Wayas Mrs. Philpott
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Endless Night (1972)
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- Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder spent two years writing a comedy about British divorce, Sex and the British, but had to shelve it when a change in British law made its plot obsolete; they then adapted Agatha Christie's Endless Night, with Gilliat directing and Launder producing.
- Composer Bernard Herrmann first intended to use a theremin in Endless Night's score but opted for a Moog synthesizer instead, and Ellie's singing in the film was dubbed by Shirley Jones.
- Agatha Christie wrote the source novel Endless Night in six weeks, although she said she normally wrote her books in three to four months.
- Endless Night was the last project Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder worked on together for British Lion Films, the company that had been their home since The Happiest Days of Your Life in 1950.
