The Fatal Night

The Fatal Night
Directed by	Mario Zampi
Written by	Michael Arlen Gerald Butler Kathleen Connors
Produced by	Mario Zampi
Starring	Lester Ferguson Jean Short Leslie Armstrong
Cinematography	Cedric Williams
Edited by	Giulio Zampi
Music by	Stanley Black
Production companies	Anglo Films Veneficus Films
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	11 July 1948 (1948-07-11)
Running time	50 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

The Fatal Night is a 1948 British thriller film directed by Mario Zampi and starring Lester Ferguson, Jean Short and Leslie Armstrong.^[1] It is based Michael Arlen's 1925 short story The Gentleman from America, which tells the story of an American visitor in London who makes a bet with two Englishmen to see if he can spend a night alone in a "haunted" room. The story was adapted for the screen by British crime novelist Gerald Butler. The same story, under its original title, was adapted in 1956 as an episode of the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.