Satan Never Sleeps

Satan Never Sleeps
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Directed byLeo McCarey
Screenplay byClaude Binyon
Story byPearl S. Buck
Produced byLeo McCarey
StarringWilliam Holden
Clifton Webb
France Nuyen
Athene Seyler
Martin Benson
CinematographyOswald Morris
Edited byGordon Pilkington
Music byRichard Rodney Bennett
Distributed byTwentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Release date
  • March 23, 1962 (1962-03-23) (United States)
Running time
125 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$2,885,000[1]
Box office$1.5 million (US/Canada)[2]

Satan Never Sleeps (also known as The Devil Never Sleeps and Flight from Terror[3]) is a 1962 American drama romance war film directed by Leo McCarey, his final film, in which he returns to the religious themes of his classics Going My Way (1944) and The Bells of St. Mary's (1945).[4] It also is the final screen appearance of actor Clifton Webb.

  1. ^ Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History, Scarecrow Press, 1989 p. 253
  2. ^ "Big Rental Pictures of 1962". Variety. 9 Jan 1963. p. 13. Please note these are rentals and not gross figures
  3. ^ "AFI|Catalog". catalog.afi.com. Retrieved 2023-05-08.
  4. ^ Hooper and Poague, 1980 p. 314: Filmography section.