The Message (1976), Life of Brian (1979), Out of the Past (1947), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Nosferatu (1922), Intruder in the Dust (1949), The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982), McLintock! (1963) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Day For Night movies.
Storyline: When Flight Lt Forbes and his crew are shot down after bombing their target, they discover valuable information, about a hidden German aircraft factory, that must get back to England. In their way across Germany, they try and cause as much damage as possible. Then with the chasing Germans about to pounce, they come up with an ingenious plan to escape.—mike.wilson6@btinternet.com
Plot Keywords: nazi, orchestral music score, air raid, train, secret plan, resistance, pigeon ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An Australian couple take a sailing trip in the Pacific to forget about a terrible accident. While on the open sea, in dead calm, they come across a ship with one survivor who is not at all what he seems.
Plot Keywords: sailboat, female nudity, psychological torture, sex, hostage, maniac, female frontal nudity ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A Sheriff goes into Mexico in search of a man wanted back in the States. Finding him, he starts back. But it's a long way back, he has a reluctant captive, and there are unfriendly Indians along the way. The Sheriff admits his life has been a failure but this mission he plans to accomplish.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>
Plot Keywords: title spoken by character, desert, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, farm, farmhouse, knife, drunkenness ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the Arizona desert, Professor Gerald Deemer (Leo G. Carroll) is experimenting with growth hormones in the hopes of finding a way to increase the world's food supply. His partner in the project was recently found dead in the desert, suffering from a disease that normally takes years to advance, but, in his case, seems to have afflicted him in only a few days. The local doctor, Matt Hastings (John Agar), is puzzled by the strange case and, with Deemer's recently arrived (and very pretty) assistant, Stephanie "Steve" Clayton (Mara Corday), tries to figure out what is going on. When cattle remains are found in the countryside, evidence points to a giant tarantula as the culprit.—garykmcd
Plot Keywords: radiation, venom, tarantula, man eating monster, giant spider, disfigurement, arizona ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Eric Gorman returns with his wife Evelyn from a trip to the Orient collecting zoo animals, having killed a member of his expedition who happened one day to kiss Mrs. Gorman. On board ship Evelyn meets Roger Hewitt, who falls in love with her. After delivering his animals to the zoo, Gorman plots a way to dispose of Hewitt using one of his latest specimens, then continues using the zoo's non-human residents to do his beastly work.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>
Plot Keywords: millionaire, jealousy, doctor, banquet, bear, elephant, press agent ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1465, Quentin Durward travels to France to meet Isabelle, Countess of Marcroy, on behalf of his elderly Scottish uncle whom, for political reasons, the Duke of Burgundy intends she marry. A man of honor who may have sworn too many oaths, Durward finds he and Isabelle being used as pawns in a deadly game by the Duke and devious King Louis XI. One look at Isabelle has convinced Durward this is where he and his heart have to be.—Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Plot Keywords: france, knight, based on novel, man in bathtub, crossbow, ambassador, day for night ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The Falcon is framed for the murder of a banker and the theft of war bonds. He makes his escape into the mountains where he hides out in a rustic lodge. From here he uncovers a phony war bond operation.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: character name in title, thief, swimming pool, secret marriage, robbery, revenge, reporter ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A janitor at a summer camp is accidently burned severely from a prank. Years later, he is released from an institute, and returns to the camp with a pair of hedge clippers to take revenge on the campers.
Plot Keywords: summer camp, prank, slasher, garden shears, scissors, revenge, flame thrower ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A quintet of travelers journey in a wagon through Comanche county includes a tinhorn and his woman, a sheriff escorting an accused murderer, and a sea captain with a checkered past. After a renegade Indian tells them about a virgin gold field as thanks for saving his life, the group becomes fixated on the gold as greed becomes their prime motivation.—duke1029@aol.com
Plot Keywords: gold, fratricide, handcuffs, indian attack, translation, covered wagon, day for night ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the years following the Civil War, the town of Abilene, Kansas is poised on the brink of an explosive confrontation. A line has been drawn down the center of the town where the homesteaders and the cattlemen have come to a very uneasy truce. The delicate peace is inadvertantly shattered when a group of new homesteaders lay down their stakes on the cattlemen's side of town, upsetting the delicate balance that had existed thus far and sparking an all-out war between the farmers, who want the land tamed and property lines drawn, and the cowboys, who want the prairies to be open for their cattle to roam.—Jean-Marc Rocher <rocher@fiberbit.net>
Plot Keywords: based on novel, arson, house on fire, jail, wagon train, knocked unconscious, jail break ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Smooth cowboy Dan Kehoe arrives at a ranch run by an old widow and her four daughters-in-law. He's been tipped off that the proceeds of a gold robbery are hidden on the ranch, but only one of the women knows where. He plays them off against each other in his quest to discover the location.—Col Needham <col@imdb.com>
Plot Keywords: con man, screenplay adapted by author, hidden treasure, biblical quote, dancehall girl, day for night, envy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A couple of comical, out-of-work archaeologists (Dick Foran and Wallace Ford) in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving funding from an eccentric magician (Cecil Kellaway) and his beautiful daughter (Peggy Moran), they set out into the desert only to be terrorized by a sinister high priest (George Zucco) and the living mummy Kharis (Tom Tyler) who are the guardians of Ananka^Òs tomb.—Jeremy Lunt <durlinlunt@acadia.net>
Plot Keywords: archeologist, expedition, curse, strangulation, mummy, magician, resurrection ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A military nurse recovering at an inn from a nervous breakdown keeps having dreams where she sees two men trying to murder a third. When she meets a man who is a federal agent at the inn, she is astounded to discover that he is the man in her dream who is the intended murder victim.—lisirose51@aol.com
Plot Keywords: b movie, spy hero, sabotage, kidnapping, low budget film, murder, federal agent ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Tom Newcliffe (Calvin Lockhart), a rich businessman and expert hunter, summons six guests to his huge country estate which he has rigged up with video cameras and a high-tech security system. He tells them and his surprised wife that they are all to stay over a weekend and that all of them will be kept on the estate during that weekend. For each guest, dead bodies have followed in their wake and the way that the dead have been murdered means that one of the guests is a werewolf and Tom has summoned his guests here to discover who it is and to hunt it down. This movie has a clip at the beginning asking people in the audience to try to identify the werewolf, and near the end, there is a thirty-second "Werewolf Break" for the audience to think over the evidence.—Lee Horton <Leeh@tcp.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: manhunt, characters killed one by one, creature feature, millionaire, monster, whodunit, obsession ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Illegal aliens are being flown in from Mexico by small plane. When a Secret Service agent finds out, he is killed and the smuggling is shut down for awhile. Brass, an ex-Navy flyer who is now flying the Pacific Clipper route, is chosen by the Service to find out who is behind this smuggling ring. Since they know that an ex-smuggler named Ace was part of the gang, Brass is put into the general prison population to try to get information from him. It is from Ace that he learns where the smugglers are located, but it is up to Brass to infiltrate the ring and bring the head man across the border to be arrested.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: spy, prison escape, radio operator, rainstorm, romantic rivalry, train, trial ...
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