Nightkill
| Nightkill | |
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| Directed by | Ted Post |
| Written by |
Joan Andre (screenplay) John Case (story) |
| Starring |
Robert Mitchum Jaclyn Smith |
| Distributed by | Cine Artist Film |
Release dates |
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Running time | 97 min. |
| Country | West Germany |
| Language | English |
Nightkill is a 1980 thriller film directed by Ted Post and starring Robert Mitchum and Jaclyn Smith.[1] The screenplay concerns an adulteress who hatches a plot to murder her millionaire husband while her lover assumes his identity.[2]
Plot
Unhappily married to unscrupulous Arizona businessman Wendell Atwell, the beautiful Katherine has been carrying on behind his back with Steve Fulton, his assistant. Knowing that a million dollars in cash has been stashed by Wendell in an airport locker, Steve plots behind his lover's back to poison her husband, then impersonate Wendell on a flight to Washington, D.C. to make it appear he is still alive.
Kathy is horrified as Wendell's dead body is placed inside a freezer. When a police detective, Lt. Donner, turns up asking questions, claiming Wendell never turned up in Washington for a scheduled business appointment, Kathy panics and decides to move the body. But when she opens the freezer, instead of finding Wendell's corpse inside it, she finds Steve's.
Cast
- Robert Mitchum ... Donner
- Jaclyn Smith ... Katherine Atwell
- James Franciscus ... Steve Fulton
- Mike Connors ... Wendell Atwell
- Fritz Weaver ... Herbert Childs
- Sybil Danning ... Monika Childs
- Tina Menard ... Consuela
- Belinda Mayne ... Christine
- Angus Scrimm ... Desert rat (scenes deleted)
- Michael Anderson Jr. ... Lt. Donner
- Melanie MacQueen ... Alice
References
External links
- Nightkill at the Internet Movie Database