Dead of Night (1945)
7.2|9 Sept, 1945|103 min
The unexpected, the tragic, the comic, the romantic, the dramatic...
7.2|9 Sept, 1945|103 min
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Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests' own bizarre tales.
Keywords
dreams
nightmare
insanity
anthology
ventriloquist
evil doll
black and white
ventriloquist's dummy
recurring dream
Casts
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")
Michael Redgrave
Maxwell Frere (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
Elisabeth Welch
Beulah (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
Hartley Power
Sylvester Kee (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
Magda Kun
Mitzi (Magda Kun "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
Garry Marsh
Harry Parker (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
Renee Gadd
Mrs. Craig (Segment "Linking Story")
John McGuire
Hugo Fitch (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy") (Uncredited)
Peter Jones
Fred, Barman (Segment "Golfing Story") (Uncredited)
Paul Bonifas
French Nightclub Patron (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy") (Uncredited)
Patrick Aherne
Doctor at Psychiatric Hospital (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy") (Uncredited)
Crews
E.F. Benson
Original Story
Charles Crichton
Director
John Baines
Screenplay
H.G. Wells
Original Story
Angus MacPhail
Screenplay
Basil Dearden
Director
John Baines
Original Story
Alberto Cavalcanti
Director
Robert Hamer
Director
Georges Auric
Original Music Composer
T. E. B. Clarke
Additional Dialogue
Michael Balcon
Producer
Charles Hasse
Editor
Michael Relph
Art Direction
Angus MacPhail
Original Story
Douglas Slocombe
Director of Photography
T. E. B. Clarke
Writer
Roy Gough
Still Photographer
Sidney Cole
Associate Producer
Marion Horn
Costume Design
Tom Shenton
Makeup Artist
H. Julius
Camera Operator
Maurice Selwyn
Clapper Loader
Bruce Campbell
Music Arranger
Hal Mason
Production Supervisor
Lionel Banes
Special Effects
Len Page
Sound Recordist
Cliff Richardson
Special Effects
Len Wills
Draughtsman
A.E. Rudolph
Sound Recordist
Ernest Irving
Conductor
Claude Hudson
Third Assistant Director
Jack Parker
Camera Operator
F. Thomson
Assistant Editor
Bianca Mosca
Costume Design
Norman Hipwell
Second Assistant Director
Daphne Heathcote
Continuity
Ronald Brantford
Unit Manager
Eric Williams
Sound Supervisor
Mary Habberfield
Sound Editor
Michael Shepherd
Focus Puller
Nikolai Boulatoff
Boom Operator
Gerry Turpin
Focus Puller
P. Potter
Third Assistant Director
Billy Russell
Assistant Director
Heather Armitage
Draughtsman
Tom Otter
Boom Operator
John Winbolt
Clapper Loader
John Croydon
Associate Producer
Henry Moore
Painter
Jim Morahan
Assistant Art Director
Tony Rimmington
Draughtsman
George Levy
Clapper Loader
Daphne Heathcote
Assistant Editor
Seth Holt
Assistant Editor
Gwen Bartle
Continuity
M. Hamilton
Continuity
Elaine Schreyeck
Continuity
Rowland Douglas
Assistant Director
E. Leverett
Assistant Editor
Stanley Pavey
Director of Photography
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