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Film · Thriller, Horror

Dead of Night (1945)

★ 7.2 · 315 votesIMDb★ 7.5 · 16,270 votes1 h 43 minThriller, Horror1945

The unexpected, the tragic, the comic, the romantic, the dramatic...

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.

Director
Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Alberto Cavalcanti, Robert Hamer
Writers
E.F. Benson, John Baines, H. G. Wells
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Release date
September 9, 1945

Dead of Night cast

  • Mervyn JohnsWalter Craig (Segment "Linking Story")
  • Roland CulverEliot Foley (Segment "Linking Story")
  • Mary MerrallMrs. Foley (Segment "Linking Story")
  • Googie WithersJoan Cortland (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Haunted Mirror")
  • Frederick ValkDr. Van Straaten (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
  • Anthony BairdHugh Grainger (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Hearse Conductor")
  • Sally Ann HowesSally O'Hara (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Christmas Story")
  • Robert WyndhamDr. Albury (Segment "The Christmas Story")
  • Judy KellyJoyce Grainger (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Hearse Conductor")
  • Miles MallesonHearse Driver (Segment "The Hearse Conductor")
  • Michael AllanJimmy Watson (Segment "The Christmas Story")
  • Barbara LeakeMrs. O'Hara (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Christmas Story")
  • Ralph MichaelPeter Cortland (Segment "The Haunted Mirror")
  • Esme PercyAntiques Dealer (Segment "The Haunted Mirror")
  • Basil RadfordGeorge Parratt (Segment "The Golfing Story")
  • Naunton WayneLarry Potter (Segment "The Golfing Story")
  • Peggy BryanMary Lee (Segment "The Golfing Story")
  • Allan JeayesMaurice Olcott (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
  • Michael RedgraveMaxwell Frere (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
  • Elisabeth WelchBeulah (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
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