- BFI identifier54235
- Date1945 (Copyright)
1945-10-15 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisA guest at a country house party realises that he has met the others in dreams, and everyone recounts their own similar experience. (Synopsis)
- Work historyFilm 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
- Genre
- CategoryFiction
- Subject
- CreditsDirected by ['Christmas Party', 'The Ventriloquist's Dummy']: Cavalcanti
Directed by ['Golfing Story']: Charles Crichton
Directed by ['Hearse Driver', linking story]: Basil Dearden
view all - CastMervyn Johns (Walter Craig) The Hearse Driver
Anthony Baird (Hugh Grainger) The Hearse Driver
Robert Wyndham (Dr Albury) The Hearse Driver
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Title
Dead of Night (Original)
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Script - Original story: Original stories by H.G. Wells, John Baines, Angus MacPhail, and E.F. Benson - SCR-6532
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Work - 54235 - 1945 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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