Nightwing (film)

Nightwing
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Arthur Hiller
Written by	Martin Cruz Smith Steve Shagan Bud Shrake
Produced by	Martin Ransohoff
Starring	Nick Mancuso David Warner Kathryn Harrold
Cinematography	Charles Rosher Jr.
Edited by	John C. Howard
Music by	Henry Mancini
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	June 22, 1979 (1979-06-22)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$5.5 million[1]

Nightwing is a 1979 American horror film directed by the Canadian filmmaker Arthur Hiller. The screenplay was written by Martin Cruz Smith, Steve Shagan and Bud Shrake, based on the 1977 novel of the same title by Smith. The movie's tagline is "Day belongs to man, but night is theirs!" It was one of many imitators of the 1975 film Jaws. Such movies about animals gone wild were popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s. These included Grizzly (1976), Orca (1977), Tentacles (1977), The Pack (1977), Piranha (1978), Alligator (1980) and Great White (1980).