Night People (1954 film)

Night People
1954 British movie poster
Directed byNunnally Johnson
Written byNunnally Johnson
W. R. Burnett
Story byJed Harris
Tom Reed
Produced byNunnally Johnson
StarringGregory Peck
Broderick Crawford
Anita Björk
Rita Gam
Walter Abel
Buddy Ebsen
CinematographyCharles G. Clarke
Edited byDorothy Spencer
Music byCyril J. Mockridge
Production
company
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release date
  • March 12, 1954 (1954-03-12)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$1,250,000[1]
Box office$2,150,000 (US rentals)[2][3]

Night People is a 1954 American thriller film directed, produced and co-written by Nunnally Johnson and starring Gregory Peck, Broderick Crawford, Anita Björk and Buddy Ebsen. The story was co-written by Jed Harris, the theatrical producer.

The story is set in Berlin during the Allied occupation in the years following World War II. Peck plays a Military Police lieutenant colonel of the United States Army.

  1. ^ Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p. 249
  2. ^ 'The Top Box-Office Hits of 1954', Variety Weekly, January 5, 1955
  3. ^ "20th Blessing". Variety. 9 November 1955. p. 20.