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The Night Walker is a american film of genre Thriller directed by William Castle released in USA on 30 december 1964 with Barbara Stanwyck
The Night Walker (1964)
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Add to a movie listThe Night Walker (1964) is a black-and-white psychological suspense thriller by genre specialist William Castle, with a screenplay by Robert Bloch, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor, Hayden Rorke, Judi Meredith, Rochelle Hudson, and Lloyd Bochner as "The Dream." The film was one of the last black and white theatrical features released by Universal Pictures, and Stanwyck's last motion picture.
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The film chronicles the ordeal of Irene Trent (Stanwyck), who is unhappily married to a blind, pathologically possessive millionaire inventor, Howard Trent (Rorke). Howard and Irene's palatial mansion is packed with an endless assortment of cuckoo clocks, all in perfect synchronization, and Howard tape records all conversations in the house for later reference, hoping to catch Irene plotting an illicit liaison.Actors
Barbara Stanwyck
(Irene Trent)
Robert Taylor
(Barry Moreland)
Hayden Rorke
(Howard Trent)
Rochelle Hudson
(Hilda)
Judi Meredith
(Joyce Holland)
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