Dead of Night (1945)
Dead of Night (1945)


Plot.
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Cast & Crew.

Mervyn Johns
Walter Craig (Segment 'Linking Story')

Roland Culver
Eliot Foley (Segment 'Linking Story')

Mary Merrall
Mrs. Foley (Segment 'Linking Story')

Googie Withers
Joan Cortland (Segment 'Linking Story' & 'The Haunted Mirror')

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

Anthony Baird
Hugh Grainger (Segment 'Linking Story' & 'The Hearse Conductor')

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

Robert Wyndham
Dr. Albury (Segment 'The Christmas Story')

Judy Kelly
Joyce Grainger (Segment 'Linking Story' & 'The Hearse Conductor')

Miles Malleson
Hearse Driver (Segment 'The Hearse Conductor')

Michael Allan
Jimmy Watson (Segment 'The Christmas Story')

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

Ralph Michael
Peter Cortland (Segment 'The Haunted Mirror')

Esme Percy
Antiques Dealer (Segment 'The Haunted Mirror')

Basil Radford
George Parratt (Segment 'The Golfing Story')

Naunton Wayne
Larry Potter (Segment 'The Golfing Story')

Peggy Bryan
Mary Lee (Segment 'The Golfing Story')

Allan Jeayes
Maurice Olcott (Segment 'The Ventriloquist's Dummy')

Michael Redgrave
Maxwell Frere (Segment 'The Ventriloquist's Dummy')

Elisabeth Welch
Beulah (Segment 'The Ventriloquist's Dummy')

Hartley Power
Sylvester Kee (Segment 'The Ventriloquist's Dummy')

Magda Kun
Mitzi (Magda Kun 'The Ventriloquist's Dummy')

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)

E.F. Benson
Original Story

Charles Crichton
Director

John Baines
Screenplay / Original Story

H.G. Wells
Original Story

Angus MacPhail
Screenplay / Original Story

Basil Dearden
Director

Alberto Cavalcanti
Director

Robert Hamer
Director

Georges Auric
Original Music Composer

T. E. B. Clarke
Additional Dialogue / Writer

Michael Balcon
Producer

Charles Hasse
Editor

Michael Relph
Art Direction

Douglas Slocombe
Director of Photography

Roy Gough
Still Photographer

Sidney Cole
Associate Producer

Marion Horn
Costume Design

Tom Shenton
Makeup Artist

H. Julius
Camera Operator

Maurice Selwyn
Clapper Loader

Bruce Campbell
Music Arranger

Hal Mason
Production Supervisor

Lionel Banes
Special Effects

Len Page
Sound Recordist

Cliff Richardson
Special Effects

Len Wills
Draughtsman

A.E. Rudolph
Sound Recordist

Ernest Irving
Conductor

Claude Hudson
Third Assistant Director

Jack Parker
Camera Operator

F. Thomson
Assistant Editor

Bianca Mosca
Costume Design

Norman Hipwell
Second Assistant Director

Daphne Heathcote
Continuity / Assistant Editor

Ronald Brantford
Unit Manager

Eric Williams
Sound Supervisor

Mary Habberfield
Sound Editor

Michael Shepherd
Focus Puller

Nikolai Boulatoff
Boom Operator

Gerry Turpin
Focus Puller

P. Potter
Third Assistant Director

Billy Russell
Assistant Director

Heather Armitage
Draughtsman

Tom Otter
Boom Operator

John Winbolt
Clapper Loader

John Croydon
Associate Producer

Henry Moore
Painter

Jim Morahan
Assistant Art Director

Tony Rimmington
Draughtsman

George Levy
Clapper Loader

Seth Holt
Assistant Editor

Gwen Bartle
Continuity

M. Hamilton
Continuity

Elaine Schreyeck
Continuity

Rowland Douglas
Assistant Director

E. Leverett
Assistant Editor

Stanley Pavey
Director of Photography
Media.



Details.
Release DateSeptember 9, 1945
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 43m
Content RatingNR
Filming LocationsEngland, United Kingdom
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
Wiki.
Dead of Night is a 1945 British supernatural horror anthology film directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer. It stars Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Sally Ann Howes, and Michael Redgrave. Produced by Ealing Studios, the film features five segments within a frame narrative during which a group of guests assembled at a country manor who recount stories of their own individual nightmares. It is best remembered for the concluding story featuring Redgrave and an insane ventriloquist's malevolent dummy.
Eagle-Lion Films released Dead of Night theatrically in the United Kingdom on 9 September 1945. Dead of Night is one of the few horror films made in England during the 1940s, as horror films had been banned from production in Britain during World War II. It was also one of the few horror efforts from Ealing Studios, who were primarily known for producing comedies. The film was greatly influential on the horror and anthology film genres, and is regarded by film critics and scholars as a classic.
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.
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