Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 103 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
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.
- dreams
- nightmare
- insanity
- anthology
- ventriloquist
- evil doll
- black and white
- ventriloquist's dummy
- recurring dream
- future vision
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
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 Ventriloqui
- Anthony Baird — Hugh Grainger (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Hearse Conduct
- 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 Conduc
- 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"
- Ralph Michael — Peter Cortland (Segment "The Haunted Mirror")
- Esme Percy — Antiques Dealer (Segment "The Haunted Mirror")
- Basil Radford — George Parratt (Segment "The Golfing Story")
- Written
- Angus MacPhail, John Baines, T. E. B. Clarke
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 307 ratings
- Studio
- Ealing Studios
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
