Hold Back the Night Three social outcasts hook up for a dose of self-discovery in British road movie "Hold Back the Night," but pic loses it dramatic bearings long before their camper reaches the Author: Derek Elley.

Hold Back The Night is one of his earlier works and not as well known. The novel is about a United States Marine Corp Rifle Company during the retreat from Changjin Reservoir in November/December after the Chinese launched a massive offensive against the U.N. forces/5.

Hold Back the Night sounds at first very much like just another war film until it becomes clear that central relationship here is between pro war vet John Payne and a bottle of scotch his wife gave him during WWII and that he keeps.