Dead of Night
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Dead of Night

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

7.2 / 10 1945 1h 43mNR English
HorrorThriller

Storyline

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.

Cast & Crew

Mervyn Johns

Mervyn Johns

Walter Craig (Segment "Linking Story")

Lead
Roland Culver

Roland Culver

Eliot Foley (Segment "Linking Story")

Mary Merrall

Mary Merrall

Mrs. Foley (Segment "Linking Story")

Googie Withers

Googie Withers

Joan Cortland (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Haunted Mirror")

Frederick Valk

Frederick Valk

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

Anthony Baird

Anthony Baird

Hugh Grainger (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Hearse Conductor")

Sally Ann Howes

Sally Ann Howes

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

Robert Wyndham

Robert Wyndham

Dr. Albury (Segment "The Christmas Story")

What People Are Saying

4.0
A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Alberto Cavalcanti's vision lands with breathtaking precision.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
4.0
Every frame feels alive. Dead of Night is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker