Editing Night Must Fall (section)

==Adaptations==
[[Image:Night-Must-Fall-1937-1.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Rosalind Russell]] and [[Robert Montgomery (actor)|Robert Montgomery]] in ''[[Night Must Fall (1937 film)|Night Must Fall]]'' (1937)]]

===Film===
A [[Night Must Fall (1937 film)|1937 film adaptation using the same title]] was written by [[John Van Druten]], starred [[Robert Montgomery (actor)|Robert Montgomery]], [[Rosalind Russell]], and Dame [[May Whitty]], and was directed by [[Richard Thorpe]]. Dame May Whitty revisited the same role from when the play was performed in [[London]] and in [[New York City]].

A 1954 adaptation on the television anthology series ''[[Ponds Theater]]'' starred [[Terry Kilburn]], [[Una O'Connor (actress)|Una O'Connor]], and [[Evelyn Varden]].

A [[Night Must Fall (1964 film)|1964 film remake]] was directed by [[Karel Reisz]] from a script by [[Clive Exton]], and starred [[Albert Finney]], [[Susan Hampshire]], [[Sheila Hancock]] and [[Mona Washbourne]], but was not as successful as the original film.

===Radio===
A radio adaptation of ''Night Must Fall'' was presented on ''[[Philip Morris Playhouse]]'' 24 October 1941.<ref>{{cite news|title="Playhouse" Star|newspaper=Harrisburg Telegraph |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2858171/harrisburg_telegraph/|agency=Harrisburg Telegraph|date=October 18, 1941|page=27|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = July 21, 2015}} {{Open access}}</ref> Starring [[Burgess Meredith]], [[Maureen O'Sullivan]] and [[Flora Robson]], the program has not survived in radio collections.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.digitaldeliftp.com/DigitalDeliToo/dd2jb-Philip-Morris-Playhouse.html |title=Philip Morris Playhouse |website=The Digital Deli Too |access-date=2015-08-01}}</ref>

''Night Must Fall'' was adapted for the 24 July 1944 broadcast of ''[[The Screen Guild Theater]]'', starring [[James Cagney]], [[Rosemary DeCamp]] and May Whitty.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=The+Lady+Esther+Screen+Guild+Theatre |title=Suspense |website=RadioGOLDINdex |publisher=J. David Goldin |access-date=2015-08-01}}</ref><ref name="Archive Screen Guild">{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/ScreenGuildTheater |title=Night Must Fall |website=[[The Screen Guild Theater]]  |publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=2015-08-01}}</ref>

''Night Must Fall'' was adapted for the 12 April 1946 broadcast of [[NBC]]'s [[Mollé Mystery Theatre]] by Don Agger and starred Ian Martin as Dan, [[Virginia Field]] as Olivia, [[Ethel Browning (actress)|Ethel Browning]] as Mrs. Bramson, Thelma Jordan as Dora, Anthony Kemble Cooper as Hubert Laurie, and [[Neil Fitzgerald]] as Inspector Belsize.

Robert Montgomery produced, hosted and starred in a CBS Radio adaptation of ''Night Must Fall'' on ''[[Suspense (radio program)|Suspense]]'' 27 March 1948. May Whitty, [[Heather Angel (actress)|Heather Angel]], [[Richard Ney]] and Matthew Boulton co-starred.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=Suspense |title=Suspense |website=RadioGOLDINdex |publisher=J. David Goldin |access-date=2015-08-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/SUSPENSE3 |title=Night Must Fall |website=[[Suspense (radio program)|Suspense]] |publisher=[[Internet Archive]] |access-date=2015-08-01}}</ref>

Dame [[Sybil Thorndike]] took the part of Mrs. Bramson in a 1969 production for [[BBC Radio 4]], directed by Betty Davies and featuring the prolific Welsh radio writer [[William Ingram (writer)|William Ingram]] as Dan. In 1985 [[BBC Radio 4]] broadcast another production of the play, starring [[Hywel Bennett]] as Dan. The station re-aired the dramatisation in 1987, the year of Emlyn Williams's death.