Dead of Night

Sep 9, 1945

1h 43m

★ 7.2

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

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.

Genres

Horror

Thriller

Production Companies

Ealing Studios

Dead of Night Trailers

Cast

Walter Craig (Segment "Linking Story")

Mervyn Johns

Eliot Foley (Segment "Linking Story")

Roland Culver

Mrs. Foley (Segment "Linking Story")

Mary Merrall

Joan Cortland (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Haunted Mirror")

Googie Withers

Dr. Van Straaten (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")

Frederick Valk

Hugh Grainger (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Hearse Conductor")

Anthony Baird

Sally O'Hara (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Christmas Story")

Sally Ann Howes

Dr. Albury (Segment "The Christmas Story")

Robert Wyndham

Joyce Grainger (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Hearse Conductor")

Judy Kelly

Hearse Driver (Segment "The Hearse Conductor")

Miles Malleson

Jimmy Watson (Segment "The Christmas Story")

Michael Allan

Mrs. O'Hara (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Christmas Story")

Barbara Leake

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