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The Night Digger
original film poster
Directed byAlastair Reid
Screenplay byRoald Dahl
Based onNest in a Fallen Tree
1967 novel
by Joy Cowley
Produced byAlan D. Courtney
Norman S. Powell
Starring
  • Patricia Neal
  • Pamela Brown
  • Nicholas Clay
  • Jean Anderson
  • Christopher Reynalds
  • Peter Sallis
CinematographyAlex Thomson
Edited byJohn Bloom
Music byBernard Herrmann
Production
companies
Youngstreet Productions
Tactitus Productions
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • 12 May 1971 (1971-05-12) (U.S.)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Night Digger is a 1971 British thriller film based on the novel Nest in a Fallen Tree by Joy Cowley about two women who are visited by a suspicious handy man.[1] It was adapted by Roald Dahl and starred his then wife Patricia Neal.[2]

The Night Digger was the American title; it was originally released in the United Kingdom as The Road Builder.[3]

  1. ^ "The Night Digger (1971)". Archived from the original on 3 December 2018.
  2. ^ "The Road Builder aka The Night Digger". Turner Classic Movies.
  3. ^ "The Night Digger". allmovie.com.

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