Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- 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 social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a couple of rats he raised at home, Ben and Socrates. However, when one of them is killed at work, he goes on a rampage using his rats to attack those who have been tormenting him.
- based on novel or book
- animal attack
- revenge
- murder
- maniac
- death
- domineering mother
- eaten alive
- rat
- eaten by rats
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Bruce Davison
Willard Stiles
Ernest Borgnine
Al Martin
Sondra Locke
Joan Simms
Elsa Lanchester
Henrietta Stiles
- Michael Dante — Brandt
- Jody Gilbert — Charlotte Stassen
- William Hansen — Barskin
- John Myhers — Carlson
- J. Pat O'Malley — Jonathan Farley
- Joan Shawlee — Alice Rickles
- Almira Sessions — Carrie Smith
- Pauline Drake — Ida Stassen
- Ed Haskett — Guest (uncredited)
- Alan Baxter — Walter T. Spencer
- Directed
- Daniel Mann
- Written
- Gilbert Ralston
Production
- Rating
- 6.1 / 10 · 140 ratings
- Studio
- Bing Crosby Productions
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1971 · You’re hereWillard
Where it starts.
Ben
1972
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.
