Die Nacht ist voller Schrecken (1955)

Die Nacht ist voller Schrecken: Directed by Andrew L. Stone. With Jack Kelly, Hildy Parks, Vince Edwards, John Cassavetes. A group of escaped convicts take over a suburban home to evade the ongoing police manhunt, making the lives of the family living there a nightmare. The longer the men stay there, the more the tensions build and the more likely it becomes a tragedy will occur. Based on a real-life hostage-taking.

“Evading a manhunt three escaped convicts takeover the home of Jack Kelly and Hildy Parks and their two small children. The three are John Cassavetes, Vince Edwards and David Cross are about as mean a trio youu0026#39;ll find on film. Itu0026#39;s alsonapparent that Cross is playing way out of his league with the other two.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eItu0026#39;s an open hostage situation meaning that the trio really has no fixed plans what they are doing next which isnworse for the hostages because they have no idea when or if theyu0026#39;ll be free.nEspecially bad for Parks because Edwards is getting ideas about her.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe husband and wife team of Andrew an Virginia Stone present this film in a finenand realistic documentary style. The film benefits from the fact that Kelly, Cassavetes, and Edwards were notnany kind of names yet on the big or small screen. And Hildy Parks was primarily a New York actressu003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe film compares well with The Desperate Hours which had a lot of big name players in it. While The Desperate Hours has a lot of style to it ThenNight Holds Terror far more realistic.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis one is a real sleeper, catch it if possible.”