Dead of Night
1945
The unexpected, the tragic, the comic, the romantic, the dramatic...
Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Basil Dearden, Charles Crichton, Robert Hamer
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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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- Directors
- Alberto Cavalcanti, Basil Dearden, Charles Crichton, Robert Hamer
- Written by
- Angus MacPhail, John Baines, T. E. B. Clarke
- Produced by
- Michael Balcon
- Composer
- Georges Auric
- Cinematographers
- Douglas Slocombe, Stanley Pavey
- Editor
- Charles Hasse
- Studio
- Ealing Studios
- Origin country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Language
- en
- Rating
- NR
- TMDB
- 7.2/10 (303 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 96% Fresh
- IMDb
- 7.5/10 (15,012 votes)
Cast
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")
Ralph Michael
Peter Cortland (Segment "The Haunted Mirror")
Esme Percy
Antiques Dealer (Segment "The Haunted Mirror")
Basil Radford
George Parratt (Segment "The Golfing Story")
Naunton Wayne
Larry Potter (Segment "The Golfing Story")
Peggy Bryan
Mary Lee (Segment "The Golfing Story")
Allan Jeayes
Maurice Olcott (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
Crew
Alberto Cavalcanti
Director
Basil Dearden
Director
Charles Crichton
Director
Robert Hamer
Director
Angus MacPhail
Screenplay
John Baines
Screenplay
T. E. B. Clarke
Writer
Michael Balcon
Producer
Georges Auric
Original Music Composer
Douglas Slocombe
Director of Photography
Stanley Pavey
Director of Photography
Charles Hasse
Editor
