The Night Heaven Fell Movie Review 1957

Ursula (Bardot) returns from the convent to the Spanish town where her Aunt Florentine (Valli) lives unhappily with Count Ribera (Nieto), a macho brute and womanizer. A local malcontent, Lambert (Boyd) has returned from political exile to find his sister dead by suicide over the Count; and a deadly feud is reignited. Complicating matters is Aunt Florentine's unwillingness to admit her love for Lambert, and virgin Ursula's instantaneous attraction to him. It's serious, overheated melodrama in a commercial package that reveals Vadim to be basically the sex merchant everyone accuses him of being.

Distribution

Home Vision Cinema, c/o Image Entertainment, 20525 Nordhoff St., Ste. 200, Chatsworth, CA 91311, URL: http://www.homevision.com

Available on DVD
Running time 95 minutes.
Originally from French, Italian.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Crime Drama

Screenplay

Roger Vadim, Peter Viertel, Jacques Remy

Cast

Brigitte Bardot, Stephen Boyd, Alida Valli, Pepe Nieto

Cinematography

Armand Thirard

Director

Roger Vadim

Music

Georges Auric

Other

Victoria Mercanton, Jean Andre