The Longest Night is a 1972 American made-for-television drama film written by Merwin Gerard and directed by Jack Smight.

It is based on the 1968 Barbara Mackle kidnapping by Gary Steven Krist.

He leaves her there, with a fan for air and a gallon of water, until he receives the ransom money.

[3] The film inspired a story Quentin Tarantino created for CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which the show's house writers scripted into an episode he directed in 2005 titled Grave Danger, a two-hour season finale in which the Las Vegas crime team had to rescue a colleague who has been buried alive.

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