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Dead of Night

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

  • Movie
  • 1945
  • NR
  • 1h 43m

Directed by Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and Alberto Cavalcanti

7.2

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7.2 out of 10 from 317 votes

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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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Cast and crew

  • Mervyn Johns

    Mervyn JohnsWalter Craig (Segment "Linking Story")

  • Roland Culver

    Roland CulverEliot Foley (Segment "Linking Story")

  • Mary Merrall

    Mary MerrallMrs. Foley (Segment "Linking Story")

  • Googie Withers

    Googie WithersJoan Cortland (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Haunted Mirror")

  • Frederick Valk

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

  • Anthony Baird

    Anthony BairdHugh Grainger (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Hearse Conductor")

  • Sally Ann Howes

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

  • Robert Wyndham

    Robert WyndhamDr. Albury (Segment "The Christmas Story")

  • Judy Kelly

    Judy KellyJoyce Grainger (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Hearse Conductor")

  • Miles Malleson

    Miles MallesonHearse Driver (Segment "The Hearse Conductor")

  • Michael AllanJimmy Watson (Segment "The Christmas Story")

  • Barbara LeakeMrs. O'Hara (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Christmas Story")

  • Ralph Michael

    Ralph MichaelPeter Cortland (Segment "The Haunted Mirror")

  • Esme Percy

    Esme PercyAntiques Dealer (Segment "The Haunted Mirror")

  • Basil Radford

    Basil RadfordGeorge Parratt (Segment "The Golfing Story")

  • Naunton Wayne

    Naunton WayneLarry Potter (Segment "The Golfing Story")

  • Peggy Bryan

    Peggy BryanMary Lee (Segment "The Golfing Story")

  • Allan Jeayes

    Allan JeayesMaurice Olcott (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")

Director
Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and Alberto Cavalcanti
Writer
John Baines, Angus MacPhail and T. E. B. Clarke
Music
Georges Auric
Cinematography
Douglas Slocombe and Stanley Pavey