An early John Cassavetes performance, (it was his first credited film role), isn't the only reason to see this excellent B-Movie thriller from director Andrew Stone, (he also wrote and produced it). Cassavetes is one of three hoodlums, (the others are Vince Edwards and David Cross), who hijack Jack Kelly on the road and then hold him and his family hostage hence the title "The Night Holds Terror". Stone may have been no auteur but he certainly knew how to make a good suspense movie and this is one of his very best, a first-rate police procedural done in an almost documentary fashion.
Based, we are told. On a true story and shot largely in the locations where the events portrayed actually happened this is a movie that deserves to be a lot better known that it is. The performances may not be Oscar material but they are more than competent, (Cassavetes and Edwards are the stand-outs) and it's very nicely shot by Fred Jackman Jr. See it.
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