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- 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
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- 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)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/FD70-B20C-14BB-28F3-269C-PCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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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
view all - Scripts / DocumentsMusic 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.
view all - Posters / DesignsPoster: 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
view all - StillsPhotograph: 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
view all - ArticlesEmpire n188 February 2005 - ReviewEmpire n122 August 1999 - Video ReviewCinefantastique v20 n3 January 1990 - ArticleToday's Cinema v65 n5235 5 Sep 1945 - Reviewview all
- Books
- Digital documentsBFI Southbank Programme Notes October 2012
BFI Southbank Programme Notes December 2013
BFI Southbank Programme Notes January 2019
available to view in BFI Reuben Library
- +Dead of Night
Work - 54235 - 1945 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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