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Yield to the Night. A young woman who has been abused and taken advantage of by all the men in her life, finally finds a man she believes truly loves her, but she snaps when she finds out that he, too, is cheating on her, and she kills her boyfriend's mistress. 169 IMDb 7.1 1 h 35 min 1956. 13+. Drama. This video is currently unavailable.
Yield to the Night is a 1954 novel by the British writer Joan Henry. Henry had served a prison sentence in 1951 for passing fraudulent cheques and had written a bestselling book Who Lie in Gaol based on her experiences. She followed this up with Yield to the Night a fictional story about a woman sentenced to death for murder.
Sep 10, 2012 · Yield to the Night. Monday 10 September 2012. Share. Copy Link. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email WhatsApp. Written by GA. Advertising. Time Out says. Loosely based, like Dance with a Stranger, on ...
Mary Hilton awaits execution after murdering her lover's other woman in cold blood. Show full synopsis. J. Lee Thompson 's anti-hanging movie was produced at time when Britain's death penalty was the subject of national debate. Although not explicitly about the hanging of Ruth Ellis in 1955 (the subject, much later, of Dance With a Stranger, d.
Yield to the Night is a thoroughly interesting mix of noir, melodrama and prison movie. It is also a key film in the establishment of the British new wave, the movement of "kitchen sink" realism. We first begin the story in the prison, an environment presented in the grittiest, most realistic way possible.
In the opening sequence of J. Lee Thompson’s Yield to the Night (US: Blonde Sinner), we follow Mary Hilton’s (Diana Dors) determined gait as she walks across the city — through the pigeons in the park, past fountains, down a residential street — until she encounters her target, a middle-aged woman, and pumps her full of lead. For the ...
Joan Henry. Novel, Screenplay. J. Lee Thompson. Director. John Cresswell. Screenplay. Reviews. Written by on February 26, 2023. Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.
