Night Must Fall

Opening from director Karel Reisz, screenplay by Clive Exton from the sensational Emlyn Williams play, first filmed with Robert Montgomery in 1937, introduces Susan Hampshire whom we’ll learn is Olivia, and co-producer Albert Finney as Danny, hiding a body, Ron Grainer’s score doing much of the lifting, in Night Must Fall, 1964, from MGM-British studios.

We met Danny (Albert Finney) hacking and hiding a female body in a nearby pond, now leaving his hotel job and scooting about Hertfordshire, north of London, to meet Mrs. Bramson (Mona Washbourne), employer of his pregnant girlfriend Dora (Sheila Hancock), in the MGM-British remake of Emlyn Williams’ Night Must Fall, 1964.

Danny (Albert Finney), whom we know is responsible for the body the police are now searching for in the nearby pond, has just begun working as a handyman for Mrs. Branson, employer of his pregnant maid girlfriend, and mother of not-charmed Olivia (Susan Hampshire), in Night Must Fall, 1964, directed by Karel Reisz.

Albert Finney takes on the role of the psychotic caretaker in director Karel Reisz's update of the stage shocker Night Must Fall (1964).