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

Dead of Night

7.2 / 10 7.2 1945 1h 43mNR

HorrorThriller

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.

Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti

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CAST

The people behind the story

Mervyn Johns

Mervyn JohnsWalter Craig (Segment "Linking Story")

Roland Culver

Roland CulverEliot Foley (Segment "Linking Story")

Mary Merrall

Mary MerrallMrs. Foley (Segment "Linking Story")

Googie Withers

Googie WithersJoan Cortland (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Haunted Mirror")

Frederick Valk

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

Anthony Baird

Anthony BairdHugh Grainger (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Hearse Conductor")

Sally Ann Howes

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

Robert Wyndham

Robert WyndhamDr. Albury (Segment "The Christmas Story")