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BFI identifier
54235

Title

Dead of Night (Original)

Date
1945 (Copyright)
1945-10-15 (Release)

EIDR identifier

10.5240/FD70-B20C-14BB-28F3-269C-P

Production country
United Kingdom
Production company
Ealing Studios
Synopsis
A guest at a country house party realises that he has met the others in dreams, and everyone recounts their own similar experience. (Synopsis)
Work history
Film in 5 segments: 1. The hearse driver; 2. The Christmas story; 3. The haunted mirror; 4. The golfing story; 5. The ventriloquist's dummy and 6. the linking story. None of the segments are credited separately on screen

Category

Fiction

Genre
Horror
Fantasy
Anthology
Subject
Dreams
Ventriloquism
Christmas
Golf
Hearses
Mirrors
Credits
Directed by ['Christmas Party', 'The Ventriloquist's Dummy']: Cavalcanti
Directed by ['Golfing Story']: Charles Crichton
Directed by ['Hearse Driver', linking story]: Basil Dearden
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Cast
Mervyn Johns (Walter Craig) The Hearse Driver
Anthony Baird (Hugh Grainger) The Hearse Driver
Robert Wyndham (Dr Albury) The Hearse Driver
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Collections
Film / Video
35mm BW Positive - CTA - Combined - Viewing
35mm BW Positive - CTA - Combined - Viewing
35mm BW Positive - CTA - Combined - Viewing
35mm BW Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
35mm BW Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
Umatic Low Band - Video - Viewing
Digital Betacam - Video - Viewing
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Scripts / Documents
Music Cue Sheet (Special Collections) - MUS-360
Script - Original story: Original stories by H.G. Wells, John Baines, Angus MacPhail, and E.F. Benson - SCR-6531
Script - Original story: Original stories by H.G. Wells, John Baines, Angus MacPhail, and E.F. Benson - SCR-6532
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-54235
Ephemera: publicity - PBM-54235
Medium and small pressbooks held. Music cue sheet held.
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Posters / Designs
Poster: film - Twin sheet portrait poster - PD-12600
Poster: film - Single sheet portrait poster - PD-12601
Poster: film - Single sheet portrait poster - PD-12602
Poster: film - British quad - PD-12603
Poster: film - Single sheet landscape poster - PD-12604
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Stills
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-4t7
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00n-4t6
Photograph: print - Portrait - Black and White - bfi-00m-kgy
Photograph: transparency - Portrait - Colour - bfi-00n-6bn
Photograph: transparency - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00n-6bm
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Articles
Cinefantastique v20 n3 January 1990 - Article
Cinefantastique v20 n3 January 1990 - Review
Classic Images n112 October 1984
Écran Fantastique n2 Mar/Apr 1978
Today's Cinema v65 n5235 5 Sep 1945
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Books
Omnibus films: theorizing transauthorial cinema - 2015
Dead of Night - 2015
Ghost images: cinema of the afterlife - 2004
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Digital documents
BFI Southbank Programme Notes October 2012
BFI Southbank Programme Notes December 2013
BFI Southbank Programme Notes January 2019
available to view in BFI Reuben Library

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+Dead of Night
Work - 54235 - 1945 (Copyright)

United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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