The Night Heaven Fell (1958)

Director
Roger Vadim

Main cast
Brigitte Bardot; Alida Valli; Stephen Boyd; José Nieto; Fernando Rey

Genres
Drama, Thriller, Crime, Foreign

Description
Brigitte Bardot plays a young, sensuous French girl named Ursula, who arrives in a Spanish mountain community to visit her aunt (Alida Valli) and uncle (Pepe Nieto). It isn't long before her uncle is killed by handsome stranger Lamberto (Stephen Boyd). Against her better judgement, Ursula falls in love with Lamberto, and helps him to elude the authorities-thereby beating her Aunt (who also loves Lamberto) to the punch . Directed by Bardot's then-husband Roger Vadim.


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