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Director  Ted Post
Music director  Gunther Fischer
Duration  
Language  English
5.6/10 IMDb

Genre  Crime, Horror, Mystery
Screenplay  Joan Andre
Country  West Germany
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Release date  18 December 1980 (1980-12-18)
Writer  Joan Andre (screenplay), John Case (story)
Cast  Robert Mitchum (Donner/Rodriguez), Jaclyn Smith (Katherine Atwell), Mike Connors (Wendell Atwell), Fritz Weaver (Herbert Childs), Sybil Danning (Monika Childs), James Franciscus (Steve Fulton)
Similar movies  Taken 3, I Spit on Your Grave III: Vengeance is Mine, John Wick, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Bloody Moon, RoboCop
Tagline  Your throat dries, heart pounds, flesh crawls and you panic...that is the fear of...

Nightkill 1980 teaser trailer


Nightkill is a 1980 thriller film directed by Ted Post and starring Robert Mitchum and Jaclyn Smith. The screenplay concerns an adulteress who hatches a plot to murder her millionaire husband while her lover assumes his identity.

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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

    Nightkill Wikipedia
    Nightkill IMDb Nightkill themoviedb.org