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Elizabeth Taylor plays a woman who is a witness to murder...but whose?Elizabeth Taylor plays a woman who is a witness to murder...but whose?Elizabeth Taylor plays a woman who is a witness to murder...but whose?
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- TriviaLinda Hayden has said in interviews that production was delayed because of health problems of major cast members: Dame Elizabeth Taylor's heart and back problems and Laurence Harvey battling cancer.
- GoofsDescribing a car crash victim from the past, Ellen says her face was unmarked. But the shots right before and after this show the victim with wounds on her face.
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John Wheeler: Sorry I'm late. Panic on Wall Street. It seems every time the Viet Cong launch a new offensive, I'm late home for dinner.
- SoundtracksThe Night Has Many Eyes
by George Barrie & Sammy Cahn
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The Girl Who Cried Wolf
Elizabeth Taylor reunites with her Butterfield 8 co-star Laurence Harvey in Night
Watch one of her only if not the only venture for her in the horror genre. It also
has a bit of Hitchcockian tension in it as well.
In this film Taylor and Harvey are a married couple who have settled down in a very posh part of London. Harvey is her second husband, the first died in an automobile crash with his young mistress.
Soon after moving where they are Taylor spots strange goings on like dead bodies at the place next door. But every time the police in the person of Inspector Bill Dean is called there's no evidence of anything. A lot like Doris Day in Midnight Lace.
Both her husband and best friend Billie Whitelaw try to support Taylor, but it's no avail, she just gets worse and more hysterical and the police are just getting more and more fed up.
The film has certain parallels to Midnight Lace and also to Gaslight. But don't think you've guessed an ending even with those clues.
As so many aging Hollywood actresses of the 60s and 70s went into these kinds of films, some did more than others. Apparently Taylor was only satisfied to dip an ankle into this pool.
Apparently Harvey was desperately ill with the cancer that killed him and he does look gaunt. There is a revealing rear shot in a shower and I'm betting that is not Harvey's bare backside. He does look gaunt. He had an operation that took a lot of intestine out of him and production was stopped mid way according to the Citadel Film series book on the Films of Elizabeth Taylor.
The next door neighbor Robert Lang has a role in all of this. If you think you know what will happen in Night Watch, believe me you don't.
In this film Taylor and Harvey are a married couple who have settled down in a very posh part of London. Harvey is her second husband, the first died in an automobile crash with his young mistress.
Soon after moving where they are Taylor spots strange goings on like dead bodies at the place next door. But every time the police in the person of Inspector Bill Dean is called there's no evidence of anything. A lot like Doris Day in Midnight Lace.
Both her husband and best friend Billie Whitelaw try to support Taylor, but it's no avail, she just gets worse and more hysterical and the police are just getting more and more fed up.
The film has certain parallels to Midnight Lace and also to Gaslight. But don't think you've guessed an ending even with those clues.
As so many aging Hollywood actresses of the 60s and 70s went into these kinds of films, some did more than others. Apparently Taylor was only satisfied to dip an ankle into this pool.
Apparently Harvey was desperately ill with the cancer that killed him and he does look gaunt. There is a revealing rear shot in a shower and I'm betting that is not Harvey's bare backside. He does look gaunt. He had an operation that took a lot of intestine out of him and production was stopped mid way according to the Citadel Film series book on the Films of Elizabeth Taylor.
The next door neighbor Robert Lang has a role in all of this. If you think you know what will happen in Night Watch, believe me you don't.
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- $1,263,782
- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
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- 1.78 : 1
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