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Dead of Night

“The unexpected, the tragic, the comic, the romantic, the dramatic...”

PG · 9 Sept 1945 · 103 min · English

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The film

Synopsis

An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of the supernatural, he is filled with a growing dread.

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Cast & characters

Mervyn Johns

Walter Craig (Segment "Linking Story")

Roland Culver

Eliot Foley (Segment "Linking Story")

Mary Merrall

Mrs. Foley (Segment "Linking Story")

Googie Withers

Joan Cortland (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Haunted Mirror")

Frederick Valk

Dr. Van Straaten (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")

Anthony Baird

Hugh Grainger (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Hearse Conductor")

Sally Ann Howes

Sally O'Hara (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Christmas Story")

Robert Wyndham

Dr. Albury (Segment "The Christmas Story")

Judy Kelly

Joyce Grainger (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Hearse Conductor")

Miles Malleson

Hearse Driver (Segment "The Hearse Conductor")

Michael Allan

Jimmy Watson (Segment "The Christmas Story")

Barbara Leake

Mrs. O'Hara (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Christmas Story")

Behind the camera

Key crew

Director: Charles Crichton, Robert Hamer, Alberto Cavalcanti, Basil Dearden
Writing: John Baines, H. G. Wells, Angus MacPhail
Cinematography: Douglas Slocombe, Stanley Pavey
Original music: Georges Auric

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