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A lonely woman in a decaying mansion... A young stranger on a big, black bike. more
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Effective psychological love story with a macabre twist not found in the original Joy Cowley novel....
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A Good Solid 70's Psycho flick
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Patricia Neal | ... | Maura Prince |
| Pamela Brown | ... | Mrs. Edith Prince - Mother |
| Nicholas Clay | ... | Billy Jarvis |
| Jean Anderson | ... | Mrs. Millicent McMurtrey |
| Graham Crowden | ... | Mr. Bolton |
| Yootha Joyce | ... | Mrs. Palafox |
| Peter Sallis | ... | Reverend Rupert Palafox |
| Brigit Forsyth | ... | District Nurse |
| Sebastian Breaks | ... | Dr. Ronnie Robinson |
| Diana Patrick | ... | Mary Wingate |
| Jenny McCracken | ... | Jenny - Farmwife |
| Bruce Myles | ... | Bank Clerk |
| Zoe Alexander | ... | Stroke Patient |
| Christopher Reynalds | ... | Young Billy |
| Elaine Ives-Cameron | ... | Gypsy |
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The Road Builder
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97 min | UK:110 min
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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.