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The Night Digger

  • 1971
  • R
  • 1h 37min
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Pamela Brown, Nicholas Clay, and Patricia Neal in The Night Digger (1971)
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La triste existencia de la solterona de mediana edad Maura Prince da un giro inesperado con la llegada del joven manitas Billy Jarvis, pero Billy es más de lo que parece.La triste existencia de la solterona de mediana edad Maura Prince da un giro inesperado con la llegada del joven manitas Billy Jarvis, pero Billy es más de lo que parece.La triste existencia de la solterona de mediana edad Maura Prince da un giro inesperado con la llegada del joven manitas Billy Jarvis, pero Billy es más de lo que parece.

  • Dirección
    • Alastair Reid
  • Guionistas
    • Roald Dahl
    • Joy Cowley
  • Elenco
    • Patricia Neal
    • Pamela Brown
    • Nicholas Clay
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    • Dirección
      • Alastair Reid
    • Guionistas
      • Roald Dahl
      • Joy Cowley
    • Elenco
      • Patricia Neal
      • Pamela Brown
      • Nicholas Clay
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    Patricia Neal
    Patricia Neal
    • Maura Prince
    Pamela Brown
    Pamela Brown
    • Mrs. Edith Prince - Mother
    Nicholas Clay
    Nicholas Clay
    • Billy Jarvis
    Jean Anderson
    Jean Anderson
    • Mrs. Millicent McMurtrey
    Graham Crowden
    Graham Crowden
    • Mr. Bolton
    Yootha Joyce
    Yootha Joyce
    • Mrs. Palafox
    Peter Sallis
    Peter Sallis
    • Rev. Rupert Palafox
    Brigit Forsyth
    • District Nurse
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    • Dr. Ronnie Robinson
    Diana Patrick
    • Mary Wingate
    Jenny McCracken
    • Jenny - Farmwife
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    • Bank Clerk
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    • Stroke Patient
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    • Young Billy
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    Elaine Ives-Cameron
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      • Alastair Reid
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      • Roald Dahl
      • Joy Cowley
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    7SnoopyStyle

    fascinating and disturbing

    In a isolated mansion outside of London, spinster Maura Prince (Patricia Neal) cares for her blind adoptive mother Mrs. Edith Prince (Pamela Brown). Dashing handyman Billy Jarvis (Nicholas Clay) shows up looking for work. Maura is frustrated that Edith has given her room to him and initially feels uncomfortable with his demeanor. There is a lady killer on the loose.

    It's a fascinating juxtaposition between the stuffy English mentality and the glee about the demented violence. That old guy describing the series of missing women is hilarious. Patricia Neal is great. Billy is a disturbing character and getting naked only makes it even better. All that is missing is his brutal murders. The movie is cutting away from the kills. It's the era of its time. This is fascinating.
    tchelitchew

    Patricia Neal delivers acting master class in dark psychodrama

    The difficult mother-daughter dynamic in "The Night Digger" instantly put me in mind of "Grey Gardens." We have Patricia Neal as the caretaker for her elderly mother, Pamela Brown, living live together in a dilapidated mansion. Brown is superficially friendly but often caustic, intolerant and manipulative, seizing on her daughter's guilt and self-doubt to keep her at home.

    Neal has become increasingly regretful of the years she's spent tending to her mother's needs, as she thinks back on lost loves and missed career opportunities. The scenes between Neal and Barker are meaty enough to make up their own film, and Neal delivers a real master class in film acting. She's utterly believable in her every word and mannerism.

    Like "Grey Gardens", the pair take in a young handyman to fix up their property. Despite Neal's initial hesitation, she grows increasingly fond of and attracted to the young man. Unfortunately for her, he turns out to be a *deeply* troubled individual, and the movie takes a macabre and progressively disturbing turn. Ultimately, this movie left me utterly heartbroken, despite occasional relief provided by screenwriter Roald Dahl's famously perverse humor.

    "The Night Digger" is one of one of those boundary pushing, perverse psychodramas that the late 60s and early 70s provided us in ample supply. Although imperfect, this sits nicely alongside the likes of landmarks like "Reflections in a Golden Eye" and "Secret Ceremony."
    8The_Void

    Excellent psychological thriller

    The Road Builder is sadly not very well known, and that's a shame because this psychological thriller is a real gem and would certainly benefit from being more widely seen. The film is based on a book by Joy Cowley, although there were apparently some changes made to the story (I don't know what since I've not read the book). One of the more surprising things about this film is the fact that the screenplay was written by popular children's author Roald Dahl, although clearly he did also have a taste for the macabre if Tales of the Unexpected as well as his children's book 'The Witches' are anything to go by. The film is a strange love story at heart and we focus on a house inhabited by an old spinster and her middle aged daughter Maura. Their lives are changed one day when a young stranger on a motorbike turns up and they agree to let him stay. The young man becomes a popular figure in the house rather quickly, especially with Maura. However, there's something strange about him as evidenced by his sudden bursts of depression, apparently owing to the tragic death of his parents.

    Most of the plot takes place in a grandiose mansion and it makes for a really good location for the movie - it's very isolated and is nice to look at. The atmosphere is very good throughout and this excellently compliments the plot which is thoroughly dark and largely unpleasant. The plot doesn't move particularly quickly, but it's always interesting thanks to the way that the characters are built up progressively and director Alastair Reid focuses on their relationship with one another. The acting is very good and the film stars Roald Dahl's then wife Patricia Neal in the lead role. She gets on well with the other two main players, Pamela Brown and Nicholas Clay and these actors help to ensure that the film works well. There's not a great deal of shocking moments, but the way that the unpleasant happenings are handled works very well as it's nasty yet completely believable. It all boils down to a very good ending and The Road Builder is certainly a film with a 'sting in the tail'. Overall, I really hope this gets a decent release soon because it's a great thriller and well worth seeing!
    dbdumonteil

    He only comes out at night

    Patricia Neal+Bernard Herrmann + Neal's husband Dahl.Plus Pamela Brown and Nicholas Clay.It does make a decent film,it does not make the classic thriller we could have expected .

    Neala nd her mother ("you could have got married when you were YOUNG" said Clay to an infuriated Neal).A spinster who lives with her over possessive mother ,Neal's character recalls Nell's past in Shirley Jackson's "the haunting" (masterfully transferred to the screen by Robert Wise,then butchered some years ago).A good thing in the last minutes :the director does not show ,he lets us imagine what terrible thing happened .Today such a quality has become rare.

    But if you have read Dahl's wonderful short stories ,you may be disappointed by his script,including pointless characters such as the minister and his wife who want to become a woman and a man respectively. Besides the two women's story and Nicholas Clay's do not hang very well.
    8ga-bsi

    A Good Solid 70's Psycho flick

    Many people will say that this film was a botch up job of Joy Cowley's novel, but they would be wrong.

    While I have to admit that the type of filming they used in the 70's is not among my favourite, it worked well for this film because it gave you insight into how each character saw things.

    Patricia Niel was perfect as the spinster who was stuck caring for her blind and horrid adoptive mother, and who slowly but surely becomes sexually aware of the young drifter, played by Nicholas Clay.

    Some parts of the film are vaguely confusing, but one comes to grasp them after rolling the idea around in ones mind for a while.

    This film was very well done for an era that produced some awful movies that completely butchered famous books, and used skin instead of actual acting to portray a film.

    The Night Digger aka Road Runner is a very watchable film, that sneaks up on you rather than attacks you head on like some psychological thrillers do.

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    • Trivia
      The film's original length was 110 minutes. Bernard Herrmann composed his score for a 110-minute version; however, about 13 minutes was cut right before the film's official release. So some of Herrmann's cues didn't end up in the film. In the released version (97-98 minutes), small portions of Herrmann's cue close to the end accidentally were edited out. Some of the cues Herrmann composed for the released version didn't end up in the released cut. One of those was a cue for when the nurse walks back and enters her car.
    • Errores
      When Billy climbs into his bedroom after murdering another woman, it is dark outside. After he gets into bed without detection, by Maura, the camera turns towards the window in his bedroom and it is daylight outside.
    • Versiones alternativas
      The original UK X rated version is 110 minutes long, while the 97-minute version was released in most other countries including in the US, where the 97-minute cut version received an R rating. TCM has now shown the entire UK 110-minute version in North America; however, they also screen the 97-min. version.

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 25 de febrero de 1971 (Reino Unido)
    • País de origen
      • Reino Unido
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      • Inglés
    • También se conoce como
      • The Road Builder
    • Locaciones de filmación
      • Oakley Court Hotel, Windsor Road, Bray, Berkshire, Inglaterra, Reino Unido(Maura and Edith's house)
    • Productoras
      • Tacitus Productions
      • Yongestreet Productions
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      1 hora 37 minutos
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      • 1.66 : 1

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