HorrorCrime

Night After Night After Night

- The ripper is waiting...

There's a killer on the loose in London, and whilst our typically craggy copper DI Rowan investigates, Judge Lomax is busy in court, dishing out harsh sentences to everyone who comes before him.

Release Date : 1969-01-01

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Dudley Birch Productions

Production Country : United Kingdom

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Jack May

Character Name : Judge Lomax

Original Name : Jack May

Gender : Male

Gilbert Wynne

Character Name : Inspector Bill Rowan

Original Name : Gilbert Wynne

Gender : Male

Linda Marlowe

Character Name : Jenny Rowan

Original Name : Linda Marlowe

Gender : Female

Justine Lord

Character Name : Helena Lomax

Original Name : Justine Lord

Gender : Female

Donald Sumpter

Character Name : Pete Laver

Original Name : Donald Sumpter

Gender : Male

Jack Smethurst

Character Name : Chief Inspector

Original Name : Jack Smethurst

Gender : Male

Terry Scully

Character Name : Carter

Original Name : Terry Scully

Gender : Male

Peter Forbes-Robertson

Character Name : Powell

Original Name : Peter Forbes-Robertson

Gender : Male

Jacqueline Clarke

Character Name : Josie Leach

Original Name : Jacqueline Clarke

Gender : Female

Michael Nightingale

Character Name : Martingale, solicitor

Original Name : Michael Nightingale

Gender : Male

Simon Lack

Character Name : Endell's Q.C.

Original Name : Simon Lack

Gender : Male

April Harlow

Character Name : Stripper #1

Original Name : April Harlow

Gender : Male

Shirley Easton

Character Name : Stripper #2

Original Name : Shirley Easton

Gender : Male

Carol Haddon

Character Name : Prostitute #1

Original Name : Carol Haddon

Gender : Male

Yvonne Paul

Character Name : Prostitute #2

Original Name : Yvonne Paul

Gender : Female

Gary Hope

Character Name : Counsel

Original Name : Gary Hope

Gender : Male

John Gabriel

Character Name : Counsel

Original Name : John Gabriel

Gender : Male

Elisabeth Murray

Character Name : Marion Brown

Original Name : Elisabeth Murray

Gender : Male

Walter Horsbrugh

Character Name : Doctor

Original Name : Walter Horsbrugh

Gender : Male

Bernard G. High

Character Name : Witness

Original Name : Bernard G. High

Gender : Male

Roy Skelton

Character Name : Counsel

Original Name : Roy Skelton

Gender : Male

Reviews

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Wuchak

@Wuchak

2024-09-29

**_A psycho switchblade killer is on the loose in sleazy late 60’s London_** The corpses of attractive females are stacking up and so a no-nonsense detective (Gilbert Wynne) tries to zero-in on the murderer. Is it a womanizing punk, a court clerk or someone else? “Night, After Night, After Night” (1969) meshes the mental illness elements of “Psycho” with the seedy Big City milieu of “Coogan’s Bluff,” just switched to the locale of London’s seedy underbelly. Like the future “The Confessional,” aka “House of Mortal Sin,” it casts suspicion on those in respectable authority positions. Blurbs about the flick describe the slayer as a “Jack the Ripper-type serial killer,” just in the modern day (the late 1960s, that is) yet, while sinister indeed, the murderer is nowhere close to being as bad as Jack the Ripper in regard to the grisly things he did to his victims’ bodies. The subtext is interesting: Day-to-day exposure to the most degenerate denizens of society may cause someone to break and seek to purge those undesirable elements, sort of like Marvel’s Foolkiller, who debuted 4.5 years later in Man-Thing 3-4. Linda Marlowe plays the detective’s winsome wife and stands out on the feminine front. On the other side of the gender spectrum, Donald Sumpter’s character is like the British precursor to Luther in the “The Warriors” ten years later (David Patrick Kelly) while the determined Wynne come across as England’s version of Leonard Nimoy. Although distasteful in some ways for obvious reasons, including the grungy London setting, this obscure flick has its points of interest, including a respectable place in slasher history, a decade before the genre exploded. It runs 1 hour, 28 minutes, and was shot in London. GRADE: B-