Nightkill | 80's Movie Guide

Taglines: She'd DIE for him...he'd KILL for her... Nightkill movie storyline. Unhappily married to unscrupulous Arizona businessman Wendell Atwell, the beautiful Katherine has been carrying on behind his back with Steve Fulton, his assistant. Knowing that a million dollars in cash has been stashed by Wendell in an airport locker, Steve plots behind his lover's back to poison her husband, then impersonate Wendell on a flight to Washington, D.C. to make it appear he is still alive. Kathy is horrified as Wendell's dead body is placed inside a freezer. When a police detective, Lt. Donner, turns up asking questions, claiming Wendell never turned up in Washington for a scheduled business appointment, Kathy panics and decides to move the body. But when she opens the freezer, instead of finding Wendell's corpse inside it, she finds Steve's. Nightkill is a 1980 thriller film directed by Ted Post and starring Robert Mitchum and Jaclyn Smith. The screenplay concerns an adulteress who hatches a plot to murder her millionaire husband while her lover assumes his identity. Nightkill (1980) Directed by: Ted Post Starring: Robert Mitchum, Jaclyn Smith, Mike Connors, James Franciscus, Sybil Danning, Melanie MacQueen, Belinda Mayne Screenplay by: Joan Andre Production Design by: Peter Williams Cinematography by: Anthony B. Richmond Film Editing by: Gary Griffin, Patrick McMahon Costume Design by: Nolan Miller, Nancy Renard, Kati Berking Set Decoration by: Dick Purdy Music by: Günther Fischer Distributed by: Cine Artist Film Release Date: December 18, 1980