Dead of Night (Original title)
Dates: 1945 (Copyright), 15 October 1945 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by ['Christmas Party', 'The Ventriloquist's Dummy']: Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer
Synopsis: A guest at a country house party realises that he has met the others in dreams, and everyone recounts their own similar experience.
Genres: Horror, Fantasy, Anthology
Subjects: Dreams, Ventriloquism, Christmas, Golf, Hearses, Mirrors
Releases
Date: 04 September 1945Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - Sound - MonoAspect ratio: 1.375:1Runtime: 104 mins Length: 9401 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Eagle-Lion Distributors
Date: 14 June 1946Country: Federal Republic of GermanyRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundLanguage: German
Date: 1949Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - Sound - MonoAspect ratio: 1.375:1Runtime: 94 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Gaumont British Distributors
Date: 01 January 2005Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundAspect ratio: 1.375:1Runtime: 104 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFI Distribution
Date: October 2013Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 99 mins 8 secs - Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Dates: 1945 (Copyright), 15 October 1945 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by ['Christmas Party', 'The Ventriloquist's Dummy']: Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer
Synopsis: A guest at a country house party realises that he has met the others in dreams, and everyone recounts their own similar experience.
Genres: Horror, Fantasy, Anthology
Subjects: Dreams, Ventriloquism, Christmas, Golf, Hearses, Mirrors
Releases
Date: 04 September 1945Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - Sound - MonoAspect ratio: 1.375:1Runtime: 104 mins Length: 9401 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Eagle-Lion Distributors
Date: 14 June 1946Country: Federal Republic of GermanyRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundLanguage: German
Date: 1949Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - Sound - MonoAspect ratio: 1.375:1Runtime: 94 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Gaumont British Distributors
Date: 01 January 2005Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundAspect ratio: 1.375:1Runtime: 104 mins Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFI Distribution
Date: October 2013Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 99 mins 8 secs - Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Credits
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©: Ealing Studios, Presents: Ealing Studios, Made and Recorded at: Ealing Studios, Produced by: Michael Balcon, Associate Producer: Sidney Cole, Associate Producer: John Croydon, Unit Manager: Ronald Brantford, Production Supervisor: Hal Mason, [Assistant Director]: Billy Russell, Rowland Douglas, [Assistant Director (2nd)]: Norman Hipwell, [Assistant Director (3rd)]: Claude Hudson, P. Potter, [Continuity]: Elaine Schreyeck, Gwen Bartle, [Assistant Continuity]: M. Hamilton, Screen Play: John Baines, Angus MacPhail, Additional Dialogue by: T.E.B. Clarke, Based on Original Stories by ['Golfing Story']: H.G. Wells, Based on Original Stories by ['The Haunted Mirror', 'The Ventriloquist's Dummy']: John Baines, Based on Original Stories by ['Hearse Driver', linking story]: E.F. Benson, Based on Original Stories by ['Christmas Party']: Angus MacPhail, Lighting: Stan Pavey, Douglas Slocombe, Camera Operator: Jack Parker, Camera Operator: H. Julius, [Focus Puller]: Michael Shepherd, Gerry Turpin, [Clapper Loader]: Gerry Levy, John Winbolt, [Stills]: Roy Gough, Special Effects: C. Richardson, Special Effects: L. Banes, Editor: Charles Hasse, [Assembly Cutter]: Leslie Allen, [Assistant Editor]: Daphne Heathcote, [Assistant Editor (2nd)]: F. Thomson, [Assistant Editor (2nd)]: E. Leverett, Seth Holt, Art Director: Michael Relph, [Assistant Art Director]: Jim Morahan, [Draughtsman]: Heather Armitage, Len Wills, Dresses: Bianca Mosca, Marion Horn, Make-up: Tom Shenton, Music Composed by: Georges Auric, [Music] Played by: The London Philharmonic Orchestra, [Music] Conducted by: Ernest Irving, Sound Supervisor: Eric Williams, Recordist: Len Page, A.E. Rudolph, [Boom Operator]: N. Boulatoff, Tom Otter, [Dubbing Editor]: Mary Habberfield
Cast
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Mervyn Johns (Walter Craig), Anthony Baird (Hugh Grainger), Robert Wyndham (Dr Albury), Judy Kelly (Joyce Grainger), Miles Malleson (hearse driver), Sally Ann Howes (Sally O'Hara), Michael Allan (Jimmy Watson), Googie Withers (Joan Cortland), Ralph Michael (Peter Cortland), Esmé Percy (Mr Rutherford, antique dealer), Frederick Valk (Dr Van Straaten), Allan Jeayes (Maurice Olcott), Michael Redgrave (Maxwell Frere), Elisabeth Welch (Beulah), Hartley Power (Sylvester Kee), Magda Kun (Mitzi), Garry Marsh (Harry Parker), Basil Radford (George Parratt), Naunton Wayne (Larry Potter), Peggy Bryan (Mary Lee), Roland Culver (Eliot Foley), Mary Merrall (Mrs Foley), Barbara Leake (Mrs O'Hara), Renée Gadd (Mrs Craig), Peter Jones ([Fred the barman]), Barry Ford ([uncredited])