Nothing But the Night poster

Nothing But the Night

This nightmare has already killed five people - now it's yours to live!

6.2(38)19731h 30m2

When various trustees of the Van Traylen Orphanage begin dying in close order, it's at first written off as a coincidence. But, when a school bus accident very nearly takes out three more of them along with a group of orphans, Col. Bingham and his pathologist friend, Mark, begin looking into the deaths. They come to think the answer lies with one of the girls on the bus, who has vivid memories of things she could not possibly have seen.

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Released
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Language
English
  • suicide
  • island
  • based on novel or book
  • orphanage
  • pathology
  • murder
  • bonfire

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Director

Peter Sasdy

Produced in

United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalPG1 Jun 1975
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical16 Feb 1973
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical121 Jun 1975

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Nothing But the Night was released on 16 February 1973.

Audience reviews

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  • C

    CinemaSerf

    5/27/2023

    5/10

    Christopher Lee ("Col. Bingham") is the retired policeman who recruits the help of renowned pathologist "Sir Mark Ashton" (Peter Cushing) to help out when the trustees of a children's charity start to dying in what, he thinks, are mysterious circumstances. It all starts with a bus crash that left charred remains when there was no fire, and ends up on a remote Scottish island where perhaps even the children at at risk…

  • W

    Wuchak

    11/20/2025

    6/10

    **_Lee & Cushing investigate sinister happenings on an isle off the coast of Britain_** Based on John Blackburn’s 1968 novel and shot in the spring of 1972, this obscure flick was released eleven months before the similar “The Wicker Man.” They’re different enough to make both worth checking out, but the latter is clearly the more memorable production. Raven haired Georgia Brown is interesting as the female pro…

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