Nothing But the Night

Nothing but the Night is a 1973 British horror film directed by Peter Sasdy and starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. It is based on the novel of the same name by John Blackburn. Synopsis Three wealthy trustees of the Van Traylen fund, which supports a school for orphans on the Scottish island of Bala, are murdered, though their deaths are staged as suicide or accident. Three other trustees are on a bus carrying children from the school when the driver suddenly catches on fire, but he is the only one to die. One of the girls on the bus, Mary Valley (Gwyneth Strong), is taken to a London hospital, where she has strange seizures. A young psychiatrist (Keith Barron) and a tabloid journalist (Georgia Brown) interview the girl's mother (Diana Dors), hoping to enlist the aid of the hospital's senior member, Sir Mark Ashley (Peter Cushing). When the psychiatrist is killed, Ashley enlists the aid of friend and police inspector Colonel Charles Bingham (Christopher Lee). The two take their investigation to Bala. In the meantime, Mary Valley's mother also journeys to Bala, hoping to find her daughter, although she has come under suspicion for the murders of the trustees and an explosion on a boat near the island that apparently kills several others of the school's trustees. Ashley and Bingham eventually uncover the sinister truth behind the murders. Cast Christopher Lee as Col. Charles Bingham Peter Cushing as Sir Mark Ashley Diana Dors as Anna Harb Georgia Brown as Joan Foster Keith Barron as Dr. Haynes Gwyneth Strong as Mary Valley Fulton Mackay as Cameron John Robinson as Lord Fawnlee Morris Perry as Dr. Yeats Michael Gambon as Insp. Grant Duncan Lamont as Dr. Knight Shelagh Fraser as Mrs. Alison Kathleen Byron as Dr. Rose Andrew McCulloch as Malcolm Michael Brennan as Deck Hand Production A commercial failure, the film was the only production of Charlemagne Films, cofounded by Christopher Lee and Anthony Nelson Keys.