Dead of Night (1945)

NR09/09/1945Horror, Thriller1h 43m
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The unexpected, the tragic, the comic, the romantic, the dramatic...

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Mervyn Johns

    Walter Craig (Segment "Linking Story")

  2. Cast 1

    Roland Culver

    Eliot Foley (Segment "Linking Story")

  3. Cast 1

    Mary Merrall

    Mrs. Foley (Segment "Linking Story")

  4. Cast 1

    Googie Withers

    Joan Cortland (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Haunted Mirror")

  5. Cast 1

    Frederick Valk

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

  6. Cast 1

    Anthony Baird

    Hugh Grainger (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Hearse Conductor")

  7. Cast 1

    Sally Ann Howes

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

  8. Cast 1

    Robert Wyndham

    Dr. Albury (Segment "The Christmas Story")

  9. Cast 1

    Judy Kelly

    Joyce Grainger (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Hearse Conductor")

Ever since I was a small child I have loathed ventriloquist's dummies. They put the fear of death into me - and I am fairly certain that seeing this film in the 1970s is to blame. It's a compendium of four stories told by guests at a farmhouse, and is all kicked off by Mervyn Johns ("Craig") who has a recurring - and rather menacing - dream that predicts doom and gloom. Before he can finish his story, though, we hear from three of the others. One involves a married couple where the husband becomes drawn into the life on the other side of his mirror: a mirror that comes from a room with a grisl...