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A Thief in the Night
USA 1972
produced by
Donald W. Thompson, Russell S. Doughten jr (executive) for Mark IV Pictures
directed by Donald W.Thompson
starring Patty Dunning, Mike Niday, Colleen Niday, Maryann Rachford, Thom Rachford, Duane Coller, Russell S.Doughten jr, Clarence Balmer
story by Donald W.Thompson, Russell S.Doughten jr, screenplay by Jim Grant
A Thief in the Night
review by
Dale Pierce
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A 1970s film about the rapture, done long before Left
Behind, Revelation and
so on. The material is now dated, the politics surrounding the great Christian
vanishing act is now dated and the fashions in particular will either provoke
nostalgia or laughs. The budget is on par with an Ed Wood Jr film, as is some
of the acting, but this movie set the stage for a surprising series of three
sequels, much like Cloud Ten is doing now up in Canada with
their Left Behind
series. If you ignore some of the religious propaganda and just watch it as a
movie, for entertainment value, you will find the ending to be interesting. If
you do not have the patience for it, I will blow it for you right now.
A woman wakes up to find the Christians and babies disappearing. This has been
done to death so often in the past few years in God knows how many movies
(to make a pun), you will roll your eyes and think "Here we go
again." Keep in mind though, this film has to be judged by the time in
which it was made and not by today's standards. There were few End Times type movies around
back then and even fewer movies ending with a dream becoming reality.
So anyway, the woman wakes up and finds she has been left behind in a world
where the antichrist will come to power, though of course no one knows it yet.
Unassisted by the rash of turn or burn films coming in the 1990s and beyond,
these poor people are stuck trying to figure out what the hell has happened.
Things do not get better for the participants as the movie progresses and in
the end there are clear signs the worst is yet to come. Then lo and behold,
wake up time.
The whole great rapture has been a dream. Relief, time to laugh, time to shrug
it off and go on sinning or accept Jesus as savior at a later date. Plenty of
time, right? Well, here's where things take a Twilight Zone type of twist .
The real vanishing takes place, just like in the dream and a sense of deja vu or whatever it is called, not being familiar with the French language
myself, becomes painfully obvious to the poor woman involved.
She's screwed over now, and that's an understatement. If you don't believe me,
go for the sequels, A Distant Thunder,
Image Of the Beast and The Prodigal Planet.
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