← Back to films

Dead of Night

Name: Dead of Night
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Released: 1945-09-09
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 7.202

★ 7,2 /10 (309 Votes)

1945 EN 103 min

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.

Stream

Release date

09/09/1945

Votes

309

Popularity

2.3

The unexpected, the tragic, the comic, the romantic, the dramatic...

Genres

Horror Thriller

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

103 min

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")

No photo

Miles Malleson

Hearse Driver (Segment "The Hearse Conductor")

No photo

Michael Allan

Jimmy Watson (Segment "The Christmas Story")

No photo

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")

No photo

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")

No photo

Elisabeth Welch

Beulah (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")

Hartley Power

Sylvester Kee (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")

No photo

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)

Original Soundtrack

Loading soundtrack videos…

A weekend in the country? I should go. Architect Walter Craig arrives at Pilgrim's Farm for a weekend party held by what he hopes is a prospective client. Upon entering the farm house, Walter amazes everyone by telling them that he has a recurring nightmare about the house, the weekend and everyone in it. This sets off talk about the supernatural and each guest takes it in turn to recount their own strange tale... Dead Of Night is brought to us courtesy of Ealing Studios, somewhat a veer from the normal output associated with that bastion of British cinema, it is none the less one of the…

Read full review →

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…

Read full review →