The Night Holds Terror is a 1955 American crime film noir based on a true incident, written and directed by Andrew L. Stone and starring Vince Edwards, John Cassavetes and Jack Kelly.

Gene Courtier, an employee of North American at Edwards AFB, stops his car on the way home for hitchhiker Victor Gosset, a wanted criminal and member of a gang of three robbers headed by Robert Batsford and new addition Luther Logan.

When the gang discovers that Courtier only has a few dollars in cash, they threaten to kill him but instead concoct a plan to force him to sell his car and surrender the money to them.

But because the auto dealer cannot pay such a large sum so late in the day, the gang leaves with Courtier and retreats to the family home in a suburban neighborhood.

[2] In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Howard Thompson wrote: "If Andrew Stone's 'The Night Holds Terror' is far from memorable, the ingenious writer-director-producer must be accorded a bright green light for what he has accomplished in this tight, economical and steadily suspenseful little picture.

The familiar plot, for instance, has three murderous hoodlums invading the home of a nice young couple, with the expected panic and the usual hairbreadth hostage kidnapping at the end.