Movie
Dead of Night
Overview
An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of the supernatural, he is filled with a growing dread.
Details
- Release date
- 1945-09-09
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Genres
- Horror, Thriller
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Ealing Studios
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Mervyn Johns as Walter Craig (Segment "Linking Story")
- Roland Culver as Eliot Foley (Segment "Linking Story")
- Mary Merrall as Mrs. Foley (Segment "Linking Story")
- Googie Withers as Joan Cortland (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Haunted Mirror")
- Frederick Valk as Dr. Van Straaten (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
- Anthony Baird as Hugh Grainger (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Hearse Conductor")
- Sally Ann Howes as Sally O'Hara (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Christmas Story")
- Robert Wyndham as Dr. Albury (Segment "The Christmas Story")
- Judy Kelly as Joyce Grainger (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Hearse Conductor")
- Miles Malleson as Hearse Driver (Segment "The Hearse Conductor")
- Michael Allan as Jimmy Watson (Segment "The Christmas Story")
- Barbara Leake as Mrs. O'Hara (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Christmas Story")
Crew
- Alberto Cavalcanti - Director
- Charles Crichton - Director
- Basil Dearden - Director
- Robert Hamer - Director
- T. E. B. Clarke - Writer
- John Baines - Screenplay
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