Dead of Night
“The unexpected, the tragic, the comic, the romantic, the dramatic...”
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.
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Cast
28 people
Mervyn Johns
Walter Craig (Segment "Linking Story")
Known for
Scrooge
Moby Dick
Roland Culver
Eliot Foley (Segment "Linking Story")
Known for
Thunderball
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Mary Merrall
Mrs. Foley (Segment "Linking Story")
Known for
They Made Me a Fugitive
The Belles of St Trinian's
Googie Withers
Joan Cortland (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Haunted Mirror")
Known for
Shine
Night and the City
Frederick Valk
Dr. Van Straaten (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
Known for
The Colditz Story
Night Train to Munich
Anthony Baird
Hugh Grainger (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Hearse Conductor")
Known for
The Ipcress File
Sally Ann Howes
Sally O'Hara (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Christmas Story")
Known for
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Death Ship
Robert Wyndham
Dr. Albury (Segment "The Christmas Story")
Also in
For Those in Peril
Champagne Charlie
Judy Kelly
Joyce Grainger (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Hearse Conductor")
Also in
Dancing with Crime
The Black Abbot
Miles Malleson
Hearse Driver (Segment "The Hearse Conductor")
Known for
Peeping Tom
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Michael Allan
Jimmy Watson (Segment "The Christmas Story")
Also in
Secret People
While the Sun Shines
Barbara Leake
Mrs. O'Hara (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Christmas Story")
Known for
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Murder She Said
Charles Crichton Director · Basil Dearden Director Robert Hamer Director
Director
Charles Crichton
Director
Basil Dearden
Director
Robert Hamer
Director
Alberto Cavalcanti
Screenplay Story
Angus MacPhail
Screenplay Story
John Baines
Writer
T. E. B. Clarke
Story
H. G. Wells
Composer
Georges Auric
Cinematographer
Douglas Slocombe
Cinematographer
Stanley Pavey
Editor
Charles Hasse
Costume designer
Bianca Mosca
Costume designer
Marion Horn
United States release June 28, 1946 · Produced in United Kingdom · Languages English, French
Production
Ealing Studios
Production · Studio
United Kingdom
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · French
Release dates
United Kingdom · September 9, 1945
Theatrical · London
United States · June 28, 1946
Theatrical
France
May 8, 1946 · Theatrical
Netherlands
September 17, 2009 · Physical · DVD
Sweden
December 2, 1946 · Theatrical
XC
December 27, 1946 · Theatrical
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