The Night Heaven Fell (1958)
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46% of users liked it
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This Brigitte Bardot vehicle is better known by its American title, The Night Heaven Fell. Bardot plays a young, sensuous French girl named Ursula, who arrives in a Spanish mountain community to visit her aunt (Alida Valli) and uncle (Pepe Nieto). It isn't long before uncle is killed by handsome… More This Brigitte Bardot vehicle is better known by its American title, The Night Heaven Fell. Bardot plays a young, sensuous French girl named Ursula, who arrives in a Spanish mountain community to visit her aunt (Alida Valli) and uncle (Pepe Nieto). It isn't long before uncle is killed by handsome stranger Lamberto (Stephen Boyd). Against her better judgement, Ursula falls in love with Lamberto, and helps him to elude the authorities-thereby beating her Aunt (who also loves Lamberto) to the punch . The Night Heaven Fell was the third feature-length directorial effort of Bardot's then-husband Roger Vadim. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Roger Vadim
- Written By
- Roger Vadim, Jacques Remy Girerd
- Genres
- Drama, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense, Classics
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Oct 21, 1958 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Sean Axmaker, Seanax.com
[Roger] Vadim sells the picture by getting his wife out of her dresses and into lingerie, nighties, and less as often as possible.
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James Kendrick, Q Network Film Desk
Although shot in gorgeous Technicolor and widescreen CinemaScope, the film is dark and psychologically dense.
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Cast
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Alida Valli
as Florentine
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Stephen Boyd
as Lamberto
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Pepe Nieto
as Count Ribera
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Brigitte Bardot
as Ursula Desfontaines
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Fernando Rey
as Uncle
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Maruchi Fresno
as Conchita
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Adriano Domínguez
as Fernando
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Jose Marco Davo
as Chief Policeman
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Antonio Vico
as Count's Driver
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Cantinflas
as Alfonso
- José Nieto
