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If you are a Doris Day fan, this movie is for you. If you're looking for a suspense thriller you are going to be let down. "Julie" is too melodramatic to be suspenseful Jourdaine is a little too over the top as as her psycho husband The plot is all over the place and that adds to the confusion. Doris is her same old spunky self and does what she can with the script. There are some familiar faces with on screen Frank Lovejoy, Barry Sullivan Jack Kelly and others. There are a few coincidental scenes that may bring some unintended laughs. and the ending is so overwrought that it becomes hilarious. Also in the the driving Doris, Louis, and Barry turn the steering wheel so much{even when the rear projection shows them traveling in a straight line that they would be into the trees under normal conditions. Still isn't not a horrible film that you may find amusing and for Doris fans it's a must.

Road Builder/Night Digger owns more than a little of its story line to the movie "Night Must Fall" which as been filmed twice. Roald Dahl adapted the screenplay from the novel Nest from a Fallen Tree for his wife Patricia Neal to star in and she gives her usual fine performance in spinster role. Clay is believable as believable as Billy Jarvis the handsome, charming, but odd ball handyman who works his way into the household. Pamela Brown is well cast as Neal's blind, bitter and bullying mother. Hard to follow because of some sloppy editing and some pedestrian directing by normally reliable Alastair Reed, the movie is one of those could have been a real chiller but it misses the mark with too many slow scenes. It does not maintain an air of suspense and there is very little tension as the story unfolds and leads to a disappointing ending.Bernard Herrmann's score is unmemorable and doesn't add much to the proceedings.. Worth watching for Neal and Brown's performance but be prepared to be let down by the ending

Alex Nicole attempted to redo the Alfred Hitchcock classic "Rebecca" in 1957 with this film.His attempt is uneven at best. Some eerie moments and some good work by Peggy Webber make this worth a watch on late night TV. But some confusing plot holes and pedestrian special effects drag it down . A cool 1950s Mercedes driven by John Hudson livens up the proceedings. The film is not awful but it's mediocre at best. The under 12 years old viewers will enjoy it. The overdone insurance against being "scared to death" was borrowed from the William Castle school of film marketing gimmicks but thats not necessarily a bad thing