Karel Reisz and Albert Finney had spent a year, including 10 weeks scouting Australian locations, developing a "Ned Kelly" project, but after Columbia finally pulled the plug, they quickly set up "Night Must Fall" at MGM.
The film reunites director Karel Reisz and actor Albert Finney a few years after Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960); it was Reisz's first film as director since then. He later said he should never had agreed to do it, least of all in such a hurry..
One of the most notorious flops of 1964, this film was almost entirely disparaged by critics and given only the most cursory distribution. It has almost never been seen since - not on television, video or DVD.