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Nightfall

film by Tourneur [1957]
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  • lobby card for The Comedy of Terrors
    Jacques Tourneur
    / Later films: Stars in My Crown, Nightfall, and Curse of the Demon

    Better than those were Nightfall (1957), a trim film noir from a David Goodis novel, and Night of the Demon (1957; also called Curse of the Demon), a superb adaptation of M.R. James’s supernatural story “Casting the Runes,” starring Dana Andrews. In The Fearmakers (1958) an adman (Andrews) returns…

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    Better than those were Nightfall (1957), a trim film noir from a David Goodis novel, and Night of the Demon (1957; also called Curse of the Demon), a superb adaptation of M.R. James’s supernatural story “Casting the Runes,” starring Dana Andrews. In The Fearmakers (1958) an adman (Andrews) returns…

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