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((Infobox film
| name           = Night of the Eagle
| image          = Night-of-the-eagle-poster.jpg
| caption        = British [[film poster]]
| director       = [[Sidney Hayers]]
| producers      = ((ubl|[[Julian Wintle]]|[[Leslie Parkyn]]|[[Albert Fennell]]))
| screenplay     = ((ubl|[[Charles Beaumont]]|[[Richard Matheson]]|[[George Baxt]]))
| based_on       = ((based on|''[[Conjure Wife]]''|[[Fritz Leiber]]))
| starring       = ((ubl|[[Peter Wyngarde]]|[[Janet Blair]]|[[Margaret Johnston]]))
| music          = [[William Alwyn]]
| cinematography = [[Reginald Wyer]]
| editing        = Ralph Sheldon
| studio         = [[Independent Artists (company)|Independent Artists]]
| distributor    = ((ubl|[[Anglo-Amalgamated]] ((small|(UK)))|[[American International Pictures]] ((small|(US)))))
| released       = ((film date|1962|05||UK|1962|04|25|US|df=yes))
| runtime        = 87 minutes
| country        = United Kingdom
| language       = English
| budget         = £50,000<ref name="x cert">John Hamilton, ''The British Independent Horror Film 1951-70'' Hemlock Books 2013 p 101-107</ref>
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'''''Night of the Eagle''''' (released in the United States as '''''Burn, Witch, Burn''''') is a 1962 British [[horror film]] directed by [[Sidney Hayers]] and starring [[Peter Wyngarde]] and [[Janet Blair]].<ref name="BFIsearch">((Cite web |title=Night of the Eagle |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150034579 |access-date=2 January 2024 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search))</ref> The script by [[Charles Beaumont]], [[Richard Matheson]] and [[George Baxt]] was based upon the 1943 [[Fritz Leiber]] novel ''[[Conjure Wife]]''.<ref name=bfinews>((cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/why-i-love-night-eagle|title=Why I love ... Night of the Eagle))</ref>

==Plot==
Norman Taylor is a [[psychology]] professor lecturing about belief systems and [[superstition]]. After a scene in which his wife searches frantically and finds a [[poppet]] left by a jealous work rival, he discovers that his wife, Tansy, is practising [[obeah]], referred to in the film as "conjure magic", which she learned in Jamaica. She insists that her charms have been responsible for his rapid advancement in his academic career and for his general [[well-being]]. A firm [[Rationalism|rationalist]], Norman is angered by her acceptance of superstition. He forces her to burn all her magical paraphernalia.

Almost immediately things start to go wrong: a female student accuses Norman of [[rape]], her boyfriend threatens him with violence, and someone tries to break into the Taylors' home during a thunderstorm. Tansy, willing to sacrifice her life for her husband's safety, almost drowns herself and is only saved at the last minute by Norman giving in to the practices he despises.

Tansy attacks him with a knife while in a trance, but Norman disarms her and locks her in her room. Her limping walk during the attack gives Norman a clue to the person responsible for his ill luck: university secretary Flora Carr, the wife of Lindsay whose career had stalled in favour of Norman's. Flora uses witchcraft to set fire to the Taylor home with Tansy trapped inside.

Using a form of auditory hypnosis over a loudspeaker system, Flora convinces Norman that a giant stone eagle perching at the top of the university chapel has come to life to attack him. Lindsay arrives at the office and turns off the loudspeaker, and the illusory eagle vanishes. Tansy escapes her burning home and rejoins her no longer sceptical  husband. On their way out of the campus, Lindsay sees the chapel's heavy doors are ajar (left thus by Norman in his "escape" from the eagle), and insists on securing them despite Flora's protests. As she waits for him, the eagle statue falls from the roof and kills her.

==Cast==
*[[Peter Wyngarde]] as Norman Taylor
*[[Janet Blair]] as Tansy Taylor
*[[Margaret Johnston]] as Flora Carr
*[[Anthony Nicholls (actor)|Anthony Nicholls]] as Harvey Sawtelle
*[[Colin Gordon]] as Lindsay Carr
*[[Kathleen Byron]] as Evelyn Sawtelle
*[[Reginald Beckwith]] as Harold Gunnison
* Judith Stott as Margaret Abbott

==Background==
''Night of the Eagle'' depicts the use of charms or supernatural powers in an “everyday” environment and juxtaposes it with a rationalist view which is questioned during the progress of events.

==Production==
Richard Matheson and Charles Beaumont were admirers of the novel and wanted to work on something together, so the two men decided to adapt it. They were paid $5,000 each by James H. Nicholson of AIP, who passed the project over to AIP's regular co-producers, [[Anglo-Amalgamated]] in England. They agreed to finance, allocating the movie to Independent Artists to produce. Producer [[Albert Fennell]] bought in [[George Baxt]] to work on the script.<ref name="x cert"/> The original script (commenced by Matheson and completed by Beaumont) was published in the Gauntlet Press edition of ''He Is Legend'', a Matheson tribute anthology, but not in the subsequent paperback.<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-887368-10-0|title=Fiction Book Review: He Is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson by Christopher Conlon, Editor Gauntlet Press $60 (525p) ISBN 978-1-887368-10-0))</ref>

Filming took six weeks.<ref>((cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tMBYAIrVGNgC&q=science+fiction+and+fantasy+film+flashbacks+%C2%A3200%2C000+budget&pg=PA178|title=Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Flashbacks: Conversations with 24 Actors, Writers, Producers and Directors from the Golden Age|first=Tom|last=Weaver|date=1 January 2004|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786420704|via=Google Books))</ref> Part of the deal of Anglo-Amalgamated financing was that a star play the lead; [[Peter Cushing]] was originally meant to star but decided to make ''[[Captain Clegg (film)|Captain Clegg]]'' instead. Musical comedy star [[Janet Blair]] came on board and the male lead was rumoured((Citation needed|date=January 2024)) to have been offered to both [[Peter Finch]] and Cushing; Finch turned the part down and Cushing was unwell at the time the film was due to go into production. Peter Wyngarde was cast at the last minute.<ref name="x cert" />

== Release ==
While the film was accessible to an under-aged audience in the US., it was rated "X" (adults only) in the UK on its initial release. It was later re-rated 15, then 12 for UK home video releases.<ref>''Night of the Eagle'' in the [https://bbfc.co.uk/AFF002220/ British Board of Film Classification (BBFC)] database.</ref>

Film prints for the US release were preceded by a narrated prologue in which the voice of [[Paul Frees]] was heard to intone a spell to protect the audience members from evil.<ref>''Burn Witch Burn'' on [https://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s3575burn.html DVDtalk.com]</ref> For protection, American theatre audiences were given a special pack of salt and words to an ancient incantation.<ref>Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film, Michael Weldon, Ballantin 1983</ref>

==Reception==
While not universally regarded as a classic by critics, ''Night of the Eagle'' received mostly sympathetic reviews:<ref>((cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qKJ3pBPZK9UC&q=He+Is+Legend+night+of+the+eagle+script&pg=PT14|title=He Is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson|first=Christopher|last=Conlon|date=14 September 2010|publisher=Tom Doherty Associates|isbn=9781429934237|via=Google Books))</ref>

''[[The New York Times]]'' called ''Night of the Eagle'' "quite the most effective 'supernatural' thriller since ''[[Village of the Damned (1960 film)|Village of the Damned]]''" and perhaps the "best outright goose-pimpler dealing specifically with witchcraft since ''[[I Walked with a Zombie]]''...in 1943" and noted:<ref>[https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B01E3D91131EF3BBC4D53DFB1668389679EDE 5 July 1962 review of ''Tales of Terror'' and ''Burn, Witch, Burn''] from ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref>
:Simply as a suspense yarn, blending lurid conjecture and brisk reality, growing chillier by the minute, and finally whipping up an ice-cold crescendo of fright, the result is admirable. Excellently photographed (not a single "frame" is wasted), and cunningly directed by Sidney Hayers, the incidents gather a pounding, graphic drive that is diabolically teasing. The climax is a nightmarish hair-curler but, we maintain, entirely logical within the context.

[[Jonathan Rosenbaum]] of the ''[[Chicago Reader]]'' called the film "atmospheric and underplayed in the tradition of [[Val Lewton]]" and, despite judging Sidney Hayers' direction as "needlessly rhetorical at times", "eerily effective".<ref>[http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/burn-witch-burn/Film?oid=1047802 Review of ''Burn, Witch, Burn''] from ''[[Chicago Reader]]''</ref>

Film historian [[William K. Everson]], though critical of ''Night of the Eagle'' for its predictability, found good words for the story and Janet Blair's performance.<ref name=everson/>

[[David Pirie]] of ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]'' magazine, while not happy with the casting of Janet Blair, acknowledged Hayers' direction "an almost [[Orson Welles|Wellesian]] flourish" and the script being "structured with incredible tightness".<ref>Review of ''Night of the Eagle'' in the 1999 edition of ''Time Out Film Guide'', Penguin Books, London.</ref>

Author [[S. T. Joshi]] declared it particularly notable for its realistic portrayal of campus politics.<ref name=joshi07/>

== Accolades ==
In 1963 ''Night of the Eagle'' was nominated for the [[Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation]].<ref name=hugo63/>

==Home media==
The following DVD releases were available in 2011: ''Night of the Eagle'', UK 2007, Optimum Releasing, and ''Burn, Witch, Burn!'', US 2011, MGM ([[DVD-R]] "[[Video on demand|on demand]]").

Out of print are the 1995 US Image DVD, US-[[Laserdisc]] and [[Video Home System|VHS video]] titled ''Burn, Witch, Burn!'', the British DVD-Box titled ''Horror Classics'', consisting of ''[[The Masque of the Red Death (1964 film)|The Masque of the Red Death]]'', ''Night of the Eagle'' and ''[[Dracula's Dog|Zoltan...Hound Of Dracula]]'', and the British VHS video ''Night of the Eagle''.

Kino Lorber released ''Burn, Witch, Burn'' on Blu-ray in the US on August 18, 2015.

==References==
((reflist|refs=

<ref name=joshi07>((cite book | first=S. T. | last=Joshi | title=Icons of horror and the supernatural: an encyclopedia of our worst nightmares | volume=2 | page=716 | publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group | year=2007 | isbn=978-0-313-33782-6 ))</ref>

<ref name=everson>((cite book | first=William K. | last=Everson | title=Classics of the Horror Film | year=1974 ))</ref>

<ref name=hugo63>((cite web | title=1963 Hugo Awards | date=26 July 2007 | publisher=World Science Fiction Society | url=http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-history/1963-hugo-awards/ | access-date=2010-05-22 ))</ref>

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* ((Rotten Tomatoes|burn_witch_burn))
* [https://www.reelstreets.com/films/night-of-the-eagle/ ''Night of the Eagle''] then-and-now location photographs at [https://www.reelstreets.com/ ReelStreets]

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