Dead of Night (1945)
Dead of Night (1945)
Plot.
Where to Watch.
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Mervyn Johns
Walter Craig
Michael Redgrave
Maxwell Frere
Roland Culver
Eliot Foley
Mary Merrall
Mrs. Foley
Googie Withers
Joan Cortland
Frederick Valk
Dr. Van Straaten
Anthony Baird
Hugh Grainger
Sally Ann Howes
Sally O'Hara
Miles Malleson
Hearse Driver (Segment 'The Hearse Conductor')
Robert Wyndham
Dr. Albury
Judy Kelly
Joyce Grainger
Michael Allan
Jimmy Watson (Segment 'The Christmas Story')
Alberto Cavalcanti
Director
Barbara Leake
Mrs. O'Hara (Segment 'Linking Story' & 'The Christmas Story')
Charles Crichton
Director
Ralph Michael
Peter Cortland (Segment 'The Haunted Mirror')
Esme Percy
Antiques Dealer (Segment 'The Haunted Mirror')
Basil Dearden
Director
Basil Radford
George Parratt (Segment 'The Golfing Story')
Robert Hamer
Director
Naunton Wayne
Larry Potter (Segment 'The Golfing Story')
John Baines
Writer
Peggy Bryan
Mary Lee (Segment 'The Golfing Story')
Angus MacPhail
Writer
T. E. B. Clarke
Writer
Allan Jeayes
Maurice Olcott (Segment 'The Ventriloquist's Dummy')
H.G. Wells
Writer
Michael Balcon
Producer
Elisabeth Welch
Beulah (Segment 'The Ventriloquist's Dummy')
Georges Auric
Composer
Hartley Power
Sylvester Kee (Segment 'The Ventriloquist's Dummy')
Magda Kun
Mitzi (Magda Kun 'The Ventriloquist's Dummy')
Charles Hasse
Editor
Garry Marsh
Harry Parker (Segment 'The Ventriloquist's Dummy')
Renee Gadd
Mrs. Craig (Segment 'Linking Story')
John McGuire
Hugo Fitch (Segment 'The Ventriloquist's Dummy') (Uncredited)
Peter Jones
Fred, Barman (Segment 'Golfing Story') (Uncredited)
Paul Bonifas
French Nightclub Patron (Segment 'The Ventriloquist's Dummy') (Uncredited)
Patrick Aherne
Doctor at Psychiatric Hospital (Segment 'The Ventriloquist's Dummy') (Uncredited)
Douglas Slocombe
Director of Photography
Cliff Richardson
Special Effects
Claude Hudson
Third Assistant Director
Michael Relph
Art Direction
Gerry Turpin
Focus Puller
John Croydon
Associate Producer
Stanley Pavey
Director of Photography
Seth Holt
Assistant Editor
Ernest Irving
Conductor
Lionel Banes
Special Effects
Sidney Cole
Associate Producer
Hal Mason
Production Supervisor
Bruce Campbell
Music Arranger
E.F. Benson
Original Story
Bianca Mosca
Costume Design
Jim Morahan
Assistant Art Director
Tony Rimmington
Draughtsman
Elaine Schreyeck
Continuity
Rowland Douglas
Assistant Director
Tom Shenton
Makeup Artist
John Winbolt
Clapper Loader
A.E. Rudolph
Sound Recordist
Jack Parker
Camera Operator
Len Page
Sound Recordist
Mary Habberfield
Sound Editor
H. Julius
Camera Operator
Heather Armitage
Draughtsman
Eric Williams
Sound Supervisor
Roy Gough
Still Photographer
Ronald Brantford
Unit Manager
Daphne Heathcote
Assistant Editor / Continuity
Marion Horn
Costume Design
Billy Russell
Assistant Director
Norman Hipwell
Second Assistant Director
P. Potter
Third Assistant Director
Henry Moore
Painter
Len Wills
Draughtsman
Nikolai Boulatoff
Boom Operator
Tom Otter
Boom Operator
George Levy
Clapper Loader
Maurice Selwyn
Clapper Loader
Michael Shepherd
Focus Puller
E. Leverett
Assistant Editor
F. Thomson
Assistant Editor
Gwen Bartle
Continuity
M. Hamilton
Continuity
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 9, 1945
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 43m
Content RatingNR
Filming LocationsEngland, United Kingdom
Genres
Wiki.
Dead of Night is a 1945 black and white British anthology supernatural horror film, made by Ealing Studios. The individual segments were directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and Robert Hamer. It stars Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Sally Ann Howes and Michael Redgrave. The film is best remembered for the concluding story featuring Redgrave and an insane ventriloquist's malevolent dummy.
Dead of Night is a rare British horror film of the 1940s; horror films were banned from production in Britain during World War II. It had an influence on subsequent British films in the genre. Both of John Baines' stories were reused for later films and the ventriloquist dummy episode was adapted into the pilot episode of the long-running CBS radio series Escape.
While primarily in the horror genre, the film has shades of the comedy that would make the studio's name.