Dead of Night
The unexpected, the tragic, the comic, the romantic, the dramatic...
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A classically structured horror anthology where mounting dread and supernatural uncertainty trap the protagonist in an inescapable nightmare logic.
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.
Essence
Ensemble
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")
Miles Malleson
Hearse Driver (Segment "The Hearse Conductor")
Michael Allan
Jimmy Watson (Segment "The Christmas Story")
Barbara Leake
Mrs. O'Hara (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Christmas Story")
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