Category: Horror
All Genres: Horror, Mystery
Release Year: 1945
Country: UK
Runtime: 102
Rating: 6.3 (0)
Languages: English
Director: Alberto CavalcantiCharles CrichtonBasil DeardenRobert Hamer
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
The Man, The Woman, The Mother.
Writing by: H.G. Wells - (story) segment "Golfing Story" &
E.F. Benson - (story) segment "Hearse Driver" and linking narrative &
John Baines - (story) segments "The Haunted Mirror" and "The Ventriloquists Dummy" &
Angus MacPhail - (story) segment "Christmas Party"
John Baines - (screenplay) &
Angus MacPhail - (screenplay)
T.E.B. Clarke - (additional dialogue)
Produced by: Michael Balcon - producer
Sidney Cole - associate producer
John Croydon - associate producer
Cast: Mervyn Johns - Walter Craig
Roland Culver - Eliot Foley (linking narrative)
Mary Merrall - Mrs Foley (linking narrative)
Googie Withers - Joan Cortland (segment Haunted Mirror)
Frederick Valk - Dr. van Straaten (segment Ventriloquists Dummy)
Anthony Baird - Hugh Grainger (segment Hearse Driver) (as Antony Baird)
Sally Ann Howes - Sally OHara (segment Christmas Party)
Robert Wyndham - Dr Albury (segment hearse driver)
Judy Kelly - Joyce Grainger (segment Hearse Driver)
Miles Malleson - Hearse Driver / Bus Conductor / Jailor (segment Hearse Driver)
Michael Allan - Jimmy Watson (segment "Christmas Party")
Music: Georges Auric
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Plot Outline: Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare…
Plot: Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests own bizarre tales.
Crazy Credits: We know about 4 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
Towards the end of the opening cast credits there states: And the three living survivors of the historic flag raising on Mount Suribachi Pfc. Rene A. Gagnon, Pfc. Ira H. Hayes and PM3/c John H. Bradley.
Goofs: We know about 1 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: During the dummy sequence, when sitting and talking with Mr. Kee, the dummys hand changes position from table to knee.
Trivia: There are 3 entries in the trivia list - like these:
- US distributors thought that the original cut of the film was too long. The golfing sequence and the Christmas ghost tale were both cut. This confused audiences, who could not understand what Sally Ann Howes, Basil Radford, and Naunton Wayne were doing in the linking story.
- Parratt and Potter, the very-English characters portrayed by Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne in the Golfing Story are derivatives of Charters and Caldicott, created for Alfred Hitchcocks The Lady Vanishes (1938). The double-act proved to be so popular that Radford and Wayne were paired up as similar sport-obsessed gentlemen (or occasionally reprising their original rфles) in a number of productions, including this one. The name-change neatly sidestepped any copyright issues.
- Cosmolgists Fred Hoyle, Thomas Gold and Hermann Bondi, developed the Steady State theory of the universe, an alternative to the Big Bang, after seeing “Dead of Night”. They said that the circular nature of the plot inspired the theory.
Tags: Alberto Cavalcanti, Albury, Alfred Hitchcock, Allan
- Jimmy Watson, Angus MacPhail, Anthony Baird, Antony Baird, Baird
- Hugh Grainger, Basil Dearden, Basil Radford, Charles Crichton, Christmas, Christmas party, Cosmolgists Fred Hoyle, Culver
- Eliot Foley, Fred Hoyle, Frederick Valk, Georges Auric, Googie Withers, Hermann Bondi, Ira H. Hayes, Joan Cortland, John Baines, John Croydon, John H. Bradley, Judy Kelly, Kee, Kelly
- Joyce Grainger, Mary Merrall, Mervyn Johns, Michael Allan, Michael Balcon, Miles Malleson, Mount Suribachi Pfc., Naunton Wayne, Rene A. Gagnon, Robert Hamer, Robert Wyndham, Roland Culver, Sally Ann Howes, Sidney Cole, The Lady Vanishes, Thomas Gold, United Kingdom, United States, van Straaten, Walter Craig