Dead of Night (1945)

19452h 36mdir. Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil DeardenUnited Kingdomhorror filmflashback film

Note: this print runs 156 minutes against a recorded 103 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.

With Michael Redgrave, Mervyn Johns, Frederick Valk, Roland Culver, Sally Ann Howes, Googie Withers, Naunton Wayne, Basil Radford

Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden

Dead of Night is a 1945 British supernatural horror anthology film directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer. It stars Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Sally Ann Howes, and Michael Redgrave. Produced by Ealing Studios, the film features five segments within a frame narrative in which a group of guests assembled at a country manor recount stories of their own encounters with the supernatural. It is best remembered for the concluding story featuring Redgrave as an insane ventriloquist with a malevolent dummy.

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