Underplayed Gems

The Night Digger (1971)

The Night Digger poster
Original title
The Road Builder
Directed by
Alastair Reid
Genre
thriller film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 50m
Rated
R
Rating
6.3 of 10 from 23 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A mother and her blind daughter live in a secluded house. They take in a young handyman who has a dark secret.

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What happens

The Night Digger is a 1971 British horror thriller film directed by Alastair Reid and starring Patricia Neal, Pamela Brown and Nicholas Clay. The screenplay was by Roald Dahl based on the novel Nest in a Fallen Tree by Joy Cowley, about two women who are visited by a suspicious handy man. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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