Dead of Night
Dead of Night
Release: 1945-09-09
·Runtime: 103m
·★ 7.2
Horror
Thriller
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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Ealing Studios
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Esme Percy
as Antiques Dealer (Segment "The Haunted Mirror")
Garry Marsh
as Harry Parker (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
Roland Culver
as Eliot Foley (Segment "Linking Story")
Frederick Valk
as Dr. Van Straaten (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
Anthony Baird
as Hugh Grainger (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Hearse Conductor")
Robert Wyndham
as Dr. Albury (Segment "The Christmas Story")
John McGuire
as Hugo Fitch (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy") (Uncredited)
Peter Jones
as Fred, Barman (Segment "Golfing Story") (Uncredited)
Judy Kelly
as Joyce Grainger (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Hearse Conductor")
Basil Radford
as George Parratt (Segment "The Golfing Story")
Naunton Wayne
as Larry Potter (Segment "The Golfing Story")
Hartley Power
as Sylvester Kee (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
Paul Bonifas
as French Nightclub Patron (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy") (Uncredited)
Patrick Aherne
as Doctor at Psychiatric Hospital (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy") (Uncredited)
Mervyn Johns
as Walter Craig (Segment "Linking Story")
Sally Ann Howes
as Sally O'Hara (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Christmas Story")
Allan Jeayes
as Maurice Olcott (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
Michael Redgrave
as Maxwell Frere (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
Renee Gadd
as Mrs. Craig (Segment "Linking Story")
Mary Merrall
as Mrs. Foley (Segment "Linking Story")
Googie Withers
as Joan Cortland (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Haunted Mirror")
Miles Malleson
as Hearse Driver (Segment "The Hearse Conductor")
Ralph Michael
as Peter Cortland (Segment "The Haunted Mirror")
Crew
E.F. Benson
Original Story
Seth Holt
Assistant Editor
Robert Hamer
Director
Michael Balcon
Producer
Douglas Slocombe
Director of Photography
Alberto Cavalcanti
Director
Angus MacPhail
Screenplay, Original Story
Georges Auric
Original Music Composer
Michael Relph
Art Direction
Basil Dearden
Director
Charles Crichton
Director
H. G. Wells
Original Story