Genre: | Drama |
Director: | Jack Smight |
Starring: | David Janssen James Farentino Phyllis Thaxter |
Producer: | William Frye |
Theme Music Composer: | Hal Mooney |
Editor: | Robert F. Shugrue |
Location: | Thousand Oaks, California |
Cinematography: | Sam Leavitt |
Company: | Universal Television |
Network: | ABC |
Runtime: | 74 minutes |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
The Longest Night is a 1972 American made-for-television drama film written by Merwin Gerard and directed by Jack Smight.[1] This movie was originally shown as an ABC Movie of the Week on September 12, 1972. It is based on the 1968 Barbara Mackle kidnapping by Gary Steven Krist.[2]
The plot concerns the kidnapping of Karen Chambers, daughter of wealthy Alan Chambers. The kidnapper holds her underground in a homemade coffin. He leaves her there, with a fan for air and a gallon of water, until he receives the ransom money. Her family frantically searches for her.
Filming started June 1972 at Universal studios.[3]
The film inspired a story Quentin Tarantino created for , which the show's house writers scripted into an episode he directed in 2005 titled Grave Danger, a two-hour season finale in which the Las Vegas crime team had to rescue a colleague who has been buried alive.[4]