Night Creatures

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The mysterious scarecrow keeps watch in Night Creatures

Night Creatures is the U.S. title of a 1962 Hammer Film Productions film called Captain Clegg in the UK. Using the alias Rev. Blyss, Clegg (portrayed by Peter Cushing) masquerades as the vicar of Dymchurch but also leads a band of phantom-like smugglers who ply their trade on Romney Marsh.

The film is loosely based on Doctor Syn and co-stars Patrick Allen and Oliver Reed.

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[edit] Trivia

The main character's name was changed from Doctor Syn to Dr. Blyss to avoid rights problems with Disney who had a competing film version released in the same time period.
Hammer originally planned to film Richard Matheson's apocalyptic horror novel I Am Legend under the title Night Creatures. The plan was scotched when the British censor told them that such a film would be outright banned in England. Hammer had already promised their American distributor a film called Night Creatures, so they sold the already-completed Captain Clegg under this title.