Her first role was as Patty Myers in A Thief in the Night (1972). That way, unless you’re lucky enough to speak French, you can understand both what’s going on and how it’ll sound should you decide to give the series a shot and watch it the right way – subs before dubs, always. Patty Dunning was born on Septemin Des Moines, Iowa, USA. I’ve included both the English-language dub and the original French-language trailers because for some reason the French trailer only includes French subtitles. Three additional films were planned but never produced. It consists of four films: A Thief in the Night (1972), A Distant Thunder (1978), Image of the Beast (1981), and The Prodigal Planet (1983). 25 years later, Assane will use “Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar” as his inspiration to avenge his father. A Thief in the Night is an evangelical Christian film series about the Rapture and the Tribulation. It was the first of its kind: a movie focusing on Christian eschatology. She meets and marries a young man and her life seems great, until one morning she awakens to find her husband gone and the radio reporting that millions of people have mysteriously disappeared. In 1972, A Thief in the Night laid the groundwork for Christian cinema to follow. The official plot synopsis is as follows:Īs a teenager, Assane Diop’s (Omar Sy) life was turned upside down when his father died after being accused of a crime he didn’t commit. A Thief in the Night tells the story of Patty, a young woman caught up in living for the present with little concern for the future. This is the first of four films by Russell Doughton and Donald Thompson that essentially defined the rapture-movie genre. Since then the character has appeared Lupin has also appeared in numerous films during the early to mid-1900s, various TV series in the ‘70s to ‘90s, popped up in comic books and video games, and even manga and anime featuring his grandson Arsène Lupin III. Thompson produced and directed this evangelical Christian film. It kicked off a four-movie series that I had totally forgotten about until someone reminded me, at which point I started to shake and. He appeared in twenty four novels and short story collections, and five plays, written by Leblanc before his death in 1941. If we have to identify the start of the Bad Christian Movie subgenre, a very likely culprit is the 1972 smash hit A Thief in the Night (written by Russell Doughten Jr., who also penned the original The Blob). It’s a modern day reinvention of French author Maurice Leblanc’s classic character, the gentleman thief Arsène Lupin.įirst introduced to the world in Leblanc’s 1905 novella ‘The Arrest of Arsène Lupin’, he’s a much-beloved and enduring character. As dramatic, earth shaking events begin to unfold around. Lupin is Netflix’s upcoming French series starring Omar Sy (Jurassic World) and created by George Kay and François Uzan, both have previously worked with Netflix having created the series Criminal: UK and Family Business respectively. A story of Patty, a young woman caught up in living for the present with little concern for the future.
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