Dead of Night (1945)

[chatterer]

Directors:
Alberto Cavalcanti
Charles Crichton

Writers:
H.G. Wells (original story) &
E.F. Benson (original story) &
John Baines (original story) ...

Plot:
Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare...

Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)
Mervyn Johns ... Walter Craig
Roland Culver ... Eliot Foley
Mary Merrall ... Mrs Foley
Googie Withers ... Joan Cortland
Frederick Valk ... Dr. Van Straaten
Anthony Baird ... Hugh Grainger (as Antony Baird)
Sally Ann Howes ... Sally O'Hara
Robert Wyndham ... Dr. Albury
Judy Kelly ... Joyce Grainger

Dead of Night (1945) is a British portmanteau (or compendium) horror film made by Ealing Studios, its various episodes directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and Robert Hamer. The film stars Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers and Michael Redgrave. The film is probably best-remembered for the ventriloquist's dummy episode starring Redgrave.

Dead of Night stands out from British film of the 1940s, when few genre films were being produced, and it had a huge influence on subsequent British horror films most particularly the anthology films produced by Amicus in the 1960s and early 1970s. Both of the segments by John Baines were recycled for later films, and the possessed ventriloquist dummy episode was adapted as an episode of the long-running CBS radio series Escape. It was also used twice by the American television series The Twilight Zone, as well as serving as the basis for the William Goldman-scripted film Magic.

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[Andrej]

Mnogo volim crno bele-filmove. Ima nešto u njima što im daje neverovatan šmek. Možda u nedostatku boja, svetlo dolazi do maksimalnog izražaja, a samim tim atmosfera slike i radnje.
Nadam se da ću ovaj naći na torrentima.
Vidim da je pokupio odlične ocene.

[Malteras]

Meni se i nije nesto posebno svidio, iako volim te stare crno-bijele horore. Ali u to vrijeme je vise horor prica u jednom filmu bio novitet, pa je najvjerovatnije zbog toga pokupio dobre ocjene...

[chatterer]

ne samo za to, jeziva lutka je kasnije bila inspiracija mnogim filmovima, a i sama ideja za više priča i sjajan obrat na kraju koji tjera na razmišljanje i višestruko gledanje.

[elrania]

mrvicu je predugo trajao da bi išao uz korak s mojim umorom, ali ga se pogledalo do kraja i jako sam zadovoljna samim krajem za koji sam se bojala da ga možda neću imati snage dočekati.
priče su sasvim solidne od kojih bih izdvojila onu s ogledalom i posljednju (iako su mi te lutke dosta iritantne, a ne jezive), te onu prvu pravu i posljednju ko najbolje.

svakako preporuka za sve zainteresirane za crno-bijele i one neke malo znatiželjnije, iako ne bih rekla da je u pitanju neko fantastično ostvarenje, ali ga se isplati pogledati.

[The Undertaker]

Prema današnjim standardima ovo je neverovatno nevin i bezazlen film. Što piše Elrania, mogao je da bude kraći, ali i tako ne bi bio ništa posebno. U stvari, slažem se za priču o lutku, ona je jedina iznad proseka.

[remike2]

Meni se i nije nesto posebno svidio, iako volim te stare crno-bijele horore. Ali u to vrijeme je vise horor prica u jednom filmu bio novitet, pa je najvjerovatnije zbog toga pokupio dobre ocjene...

Slažem se sa boldanim.