W. Lyle Richardson
Carl Kolchak
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The Night Stalker: Directed by John Llewellyn Moxey. With Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland, Ralph Meeker. An abrasive Las Vegas newspaper reporter investigates a series of murders committed by a vampire.
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- Horror, Mystery
- John Llewellyn Moxey
- 1972-01-11
Carl Kolchak is a newspaper reporter with an abrasive personality that has gotten him fired ten times from various big-city papers. Now he's reduced to reporting for a relatively small-time paper in Las Vegas. It's here he gets the story of his life.
The Night Stalker is an American made for television horror film [2] which aired on ABC on January 11, 1972, as their ABC Movie of the Week. In the film, an investigative reporter, played by Darren McGavin, comes to suspect that a serial killer in the Las Vegas area is actually a vampire.
In Las Vegas, unstoppable reporter (and, as his harried boss puts it, "amateur bloodhound") Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin) gets assigned to cover a story involving a young woman found dead completely drained of blood and with puncture marks on her neck.
Novel. Richard Matheson. Teleplay. Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects the culprit is a vampire. His editor thinks he's crazy and the police think he's a nuisance, so Kolchak takes matters into his own hands.
A flip, down-on-his-luck newspaper reporter stumbles across a modern-day vampire who is murdering Las Vegas showgirls, but he cannot convince his own editor, let alone the police, of the identity of the crazed maniac.
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