Dead of Night (1945)
Dead of Night (1945)
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Where to Watch.
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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)
Alberto Cavalcanti
Director
Charles Crichton
Director
Basil Dearden
Director
Robert Hamer
Director
John Baines
Screenplay / Original Story
Angus MacPhail
Screenplay / Original Story
H.G. Wells
Original Story
E.F. Benson
Original Story
Michael Balcon
Producer
T. E. B. Clarke
Additional Dialogue / Writer
Georges Auric
Original Music Composer
Douglas Slocombe
Director of Photography
Charles Hasse
Editor
Michael Relph
Art Direction
Roy Gough
Still Photographer
Sidney Cole
Associate Producer
John Croydon
Associate Producer
Marion Horn
Costume Design
Bianca Mosca
Costume Design
Tom Shenton
Makeup Artist
Ronald Brantford
Unit Manager
Hal Mason
Production Supervisor
Rowland Douglas
Assistant Director
Norman Hipwell
Second Assistant Director
Claude Hudson
Third Assistant Director
P. Potter
Third Assistant Director
Billy Russell
Assistant Director
Heather Armitage
Draughtsman
Henry Moore
Painter
Jim Morahan
Assistant Art Director
Tony Rimmington
Draughtsman
Len Wills
Draughtsman
Len Page
Sound Recordist
A.E. Rudolph
Sound Recordist
Eric Williams
Sound Supervisor
Nikolai Boulatoff
Boom Operator
Mary Habberfield
Sound Editor
Tom Otter
Boom Operator
Lionel Banes
Special Effects
Cliff Richardson
Special Effects
H. Julius
Camera Operator
Jack Parker
Camera Operator
George Levy
Clapper Loader
Maurice Selwyn
Clapper Loader
Michael Shepherd
Focus Puller
Gerry Turpin
Focus Puller
John Winbolt
Clapper Loader
Daphne Heathcote
Assistant Editor / Continuity
Seth Holt
Assistant Editor
E. Leverett
Assistant Editor
F. Thomson
Assistant Editor
Ernest Irving
Conductor
Bruce Campbell
Music Arranger
Gwen Bartle
Continuity
M. Hamilton
Continuity
Elaine Schreyeck
Continuity
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.