A Cry in the Night

A Cry in the Night
  • Release date: 17 Aug 1956
  • Release year: 1956
  • Runtime: 75 minutes
  • Country: United States
  • Keywords: investigation, hostage, teenager, psychopath, based on novel, father daughter relationship, mother son relationship, mental illness, revolver, convertible
Plot:
Owen Marks, parked at Lovers' Loop with girlfriend Liz Taggart, surprises a peeping Tom, who knocks him out and kidnaps Liz. The police leap into action when they learn the victim is a cop's daughter. Kidnapper Harold Loftus, the unhinged product of a smothering mother, makes ineffectual advances toward Liz, who staves him off as the police close in, hindered as much as helped by her overprotective father Capt. Dan Taggart.
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