Rainfalls - DVD

Albert Finney gives a captivating, beguiling performance (AllMovie) as a psychotic killer in the shock suspense thriller Night Must Fall, costarring Susan Hampshire and Mona Washbourne. a charismatic psychopath, Danny (Finney) worms his way into the home of Mrs. Bramson (Washbourne), a well-to-do widow confined to a wheelchair. Spending his time playing games with his host, he also charms and seduces his daughter (Susan Hampshire), an infatuated young woman who never suspects Danny is mad and their lives are in unspeakable danger. Based on the 1955 hit play by Emlyn Williams, Night Must Fall is the second of M-G-M's two screen adaptations. The 1937 original stars Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell with Dame May Whitty as Mrs. Bramson, the role she created on stage.

Nick Nolte (Under Fire, The Prince of Tides, Cape Fear), Melanie Griffith (Working Girl, Something Wild, Body Double), Chazz Palminteri (A Bronx Tale, The Usual Suspects, Bullets Over Broadway), Michael Madsen (Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill, Donnie Brasco), Chris Penn (Short Cuts, Footloose, True Romance), Treat Williams (Prince of the City, Hair, Deep Rising), Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind, Requiem for a Dream, Top Gun Maverick), Andrew McCarthy (Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, Weekend at Bernie's), and John Malkovich (Burn After Reading, Dangerous Liaisons, In the Line of Fire) star in director Lee Tamahori's (Once Were Warriors, The Edge, Next) Mulholland Falls, a brilliant, high-powered neo-noir crime thriller electrified by hard-hitting action, forbidden passion, and shocking intrigue. In 1950s Los Angeles, Max Hoover leads an elite squad of detectives who play by their own rules, dealing with criminals the only way they know how, with deadly force. But when they investigate the murder of a beautiful young woman, the detectives find themselves embroiled in a brutal war against murder, corruption, and high-level conspiracy, as they face a terrifying secret that the U.S. government is determined to keep hidden at any price.

A teenage girl's wilderness hike with friends spirals after they stumble upon a crashed drug plane, forcing her to outwit a ruthless gang and face an enemy far worse than drug smugglers.