Night of the Prowler ** (1962, Patrick Holt, Colette Wilde, Bill Nagy, John Horsley, Benny Lee) – Classic Movie Review 13,457

When a racing car company director is shot dead, the other directors are scared they’ll be next, in the 1962 British black and white crime B-film mystery thriller Night of the Prowler.

Director Francis Searle’s 1962 British black and white crime B-film Night of the Prowler stars Patrick Holt, Colette Wilde, Bill Nagy, John Horsley and Benny Lee, and introducing Mitzi Rogers.

Night of the Prowler is a decent enough, quite zesty short British support mystery thriller about a racing car company executive who frames a former embezzler, a disgruntled ex-employee just released from gaol, for the murder of one of the directors so that he can take the driving seat in the car company. But when he is found dead, the race is on to uncover the real murderer.

Patrick Holt and Colette Wilde star as Robert and Marie Langton, while Bill Nagy plays Paul Conrad, and John Horsley is the police inspector, Detective Inspector Cameron, and Anthony Wager the police sergeant, Detective Sergeant Baker.

It is merely an innocuous time-filler, with little more than the performances of Patrick Holt and John Horsley and a little gusto in the handling to recommend it.

It is shot at Shepperton Studios, Surrey, England.

Release date: 18 August 1962.

Mitzi Rogers was born on November 28, 1940 in Glasgow, Scotland, and died on January 23, 2022. Her subsequent work was almost entirely on TV.

The cast

The cast are Patrick Holt as Robert Langton, Colette Wilde as Marie Langton, Bill Nagy as Paul Conrad, John Horsley as Detective Inspector Cameron, Benny Lee as Benny, Marianne Stone as Mrs Cross, Mark Singleton as Anders, John Dunbar as Davies, Robin Wentworth as Watts, Tony Wager [Anthony Wager] as Detective Sergeant Baker, Jo Rowbottom as Elsie, Mitzi Rogers as Jacky Reed, Richard Wilding, Anne Clune, Barry Steele, Alan Barry, Fred Beauman, Michael Beint. Denis Comey, and Leslie Handford.

Night of the Prowler is directed by Francis Searle, runs 60 minutes, is made by Butcher’s Film Service, is released by Butcher’s Film Distributors, is written by Paul Erickson, is shot in black and white by Walter J Harvey and Gus Drisse, is produced by John J Phillips, Ronald Liles and Francis Searle, is scored by Benny Lee and Johnny Gregory, and is designed by George Provis.

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