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Bookmark this pageNightwing (1979)
Director: Arthur Hiller
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From Time Out Film Guide
Despite the fluttering efforts of its many thousand leathery predators, Nightwing (based on Martin Cruz Smith's first novel) never really takes off. It does inspire one or two moments of nausea, as the itinerant vampire bat colony emerges from a canyon on an American Indian reservation to dine on the living bodies of local campers. But Hiller's direction simply plods to a corny and unsatisfactory ending after getting bogged down in subplots concerning whale-oil prospectors, Indian religious mumbo-jumbo, and inter-tribal rivalries.Author: MPl
Cast & crew
Director: Arthur Hiller
Producer: Martin Ransohoff
Cast: Nick Mancuso, David Warner, Kathryn Harrold, Steven Macht, Strother Martin, George Clutesi, Ben Piazza, Charles Hallahan full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 105 mins
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