Dead of Night
The unexpected, the tragic, the comic, the romantic, the dramatic...
7.2(308) 1945-09-09 103 minHorrorThriller
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.
DirectorCharles Crichton
DirectorRobert Hamer
ScreenplayJohn Baines
DirectorAlberto Cavalcanti
ScreenplayAngus MacPhail
DirectorBasil Dearden
ProducerMichael Balcon
Original Music ComposerGeorges Auric
Cast & characters
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")
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Michael Allan
as Jimmy Watson (Segment "The Christmas Story")
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Barbara Leake
as Mrs. O'Hara (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Christmas Story")
Ralph Michael
as Peter Cortland (Segment "The Haunted Mirror")
Esme Percy
as Antiques Dealer (Segment "The Haunted Mirror")
Basil Radford
as George Parratt (Segment "The Golfing Story")
Naunton Wayne
as Larry Potter (Segment "The Golfing Story")
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Peggy Bryan
as Mary Lee (Segment "The Golfing Story")
Allan Jeayes
as Maurice Olcott (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
Michael Redgrave
as Maxwell Frere (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
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Elisabeth Welch
as Beulah (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
Hartley Power
as Sylvester Kee (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
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Magda Kun
as Mitzi (Magda Kun "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
Garry Marsh
as Harry Parker (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
Renee Gadd
as Mrs. Craig (Segment "Linking Story")
