The Night the Prowler (also known as Patrick White's The Night the Prowler) is a 1978 Australian film written by Patrick White, produced by Anthony Buckley and directed by Jim Sharman.

[2] Ruth Cracknell was nominated in 1979 for an AFI Award for Best Actress in a Lead Role for her part.

[3] Sharman had worked successfully with White directing the latter's play The Season at Sarsaparilla.

[1] Paul Byrnes of Australian Screen Online wrote the following in his review: The film is a savage satire on the neuroses of the privileged of Sydney’s eastern suburbs, where White lived, and the director Jim Sharman grew up.

Much of the satire verges on invective, and the film was criticised for being ponderous, pretentious and condescending.