The Night My Number Came Up

The Night My Number Came Up

12 Men and a Girl Re-Living a Dream That Fortold Disaster

Directed by Leslie Norman

Produced by Ealing Studios, Michael Balcon Productions

195594 min6.9 / 10

A tense, metaphysically unsettling thriller about fate and premonition, where a pilot's prophetic dream threatens to manifest into catastrophe during a doomed flight.

British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pilot, in which Hardie's flight to Tokyo on a small Dakota propeller plane crashes on a Japanese beach. Hardie dismisses the dream as pure fantasy, but while he is flying to Tokyo the next day, circumstances start changing to align with the pilot's vivid vision, and it looks like the dream disaster may become a reality.

Questions people ask

  • Is The Night My Number Came Up scary? Yes. More frightening than 76% of films.

  • Is The Night My Number Came Up violent? Not especially. Less violent than 64% of films.

  • Is The Night My Number Came Up sad? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

  • Does The Night My Number Came Up end with hope? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

  • Is The Night My Number Came Up easy watching? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

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77/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Distinctly its own thing.

Rarity93

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise74

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love65

How much audiences actually like it

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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