Fresh
Producer Michael Balcon turned each individual episode over to a different director and, told via flashback, they're equally good.
Variety Staff, Variety
Dead of Night
The unexpected, the tragic, the comic, the romantic, the dramatic...
1945 · 1h 43m · Approved
Horror, Thriller
Directed by
Alberto Cavalcanti
,
Charles Crichton
,
Basil Dearden
,
Robert Hamer
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Dead of Night
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.
Director and cast
- Alberto Cavalcanti Director
- Charles Crichton Director
- Basil Dearden Director
- Robert Hamer Director
- Mervyn Johns as Walter Craig (Segment "Linking Story")
- Roland Culver as Eliot Foley (Segment "Linking Story")
- Mary Merrall as Mrs. Foley (Segment "Linking Story")
- Googie Withers as Joan Cortland (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Haunted Mirror")
- Frederick Valk as Dr. Van Straaten (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
- Anthony Baird as Hugh Grainger (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Hearse Conductor")
- Sally Ann Howes as Sally O'Hara (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Christmas Story")
- Robert Wyndham as Dr. Albury (Segment "The Christmas Story")
- Judy Kelly as Joyce Grainger (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Hearse Conductor")
- Miles Malleson as Hearse Driver (Segment "The Hearse Conductor")
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
96%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Spasmodically effective.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Nearly 60 years on, Ealing's compendium of spooky tales remains scary as hell.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
Although the stories here related are probably familiar to all who are devotees of such mysticisms, they are tightly and graphically told.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
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