Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.
- small town
- composer
- cricket
- super power
- based on short story
- devon
The bill
Alan Bates
Charles Crossley
Susannah York
Rachel Fielding
John Hurt
Anthony Fielding
Robert Stephens
Chief Medical Officer
- Tim Curry — Robert Graves
- Julian Hough — Vicar
- Carol Drinkwater — Cobbler's Wife
- John Rees — Inspector
- Jim Broadbent — Fielder in Cowpat
- Susan Wooldridge — Harriet
- Nick Stringer — Cobbler
- Peter Benson — Harry the Shepherd
- Graham Kingsley Brown — Village Churchgoer (uncredited)
- Joanna Szczerbic — Cricket Umpire (uncredited)
- Directed
- Jerzy Skolimowski
- Written
- Robert Graves, Michael Austin, Jerzy Skolimowski
Production
- Rating
- 6.0 / 10 · 128 ratings
- Studio
- The Rank Organisation, Jeremy Thomas Productions, National Film Finance Corporation (NFFC), National Film Trustee Company, Recorded Picture Company
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
