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Michael Redgrave (Air Marshal Hardie) Sheila Sim (Mary Campbell) Alexander Knox (Owen Robertson) Denholm Elliott (Fl. Lt. McKenzie) Ursula Jeans (Mrs. Robertson) Ralph Truman (Wainwright) Michael Hordern (Lindsay) Nigel Stock (The Pilot) Bill Kerr (The Soldier) Alfie Bass (The Soldier)

Leslie Norman

On a routine flight from Hong Kong to Japan, a British military transport aircraft's fate may or may not depend on a prophetic nightmare.

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The Night My Number Came Up (1955)

Genre: thriller, duration: 94 minuten, country: united kingdom, directed by: leslie norman, stars: michael redgrave , sheila sim and alexander knox, imdb score: 7,0  (1.575), releasedate: 22 march 1955.

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"12 Men and a Girl Re-Living a Dream That Fortold Disaster" At a trendy Hong Kong dinner party, a pilot is asked to reveal revealing details about a dream in which eight people take off in a Dakota DC-3 from Bangkok to Tokyo. This Dakota then crashes into the Japanese mountains. Among the listeners is Air Marshal Hardie, who has to fly to Tokyo the next day. Hardie initially puts this dream story aside, because his plane is a Liberator and only six people are on the flight. But when Hardie arrives at the airport, he learns that the Liberator has mechanical problems and is replaced by a Dakota. Shortly before the Dakota is about to leave, two more soldiers board. This brings the number of people to eight. Hardie fears the pilot's dream will come true and he will be doomed to die.

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The Night My Number Came Up

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At a fashionable dinner party in Hong Kong a pilot is coaxed into revealing details of a dream in which eight persons take off from Bangkok in a Dakota bound for Tokyo and crash in the Japanese mountains. Amongst those listening is Air Marshal Hardie who is due to fly to Tokyo the next day. Hardie initially dismisses the dream because he is scheduled to fly out in a Liberator, but as Hardie arrives at the airport he discovers that the Liberator has developed mechanical problems and has been replaced by a Dakota. When, just before the flight is due to depart, two soldiers board the plane making a complement of eight, Hardie fears that the Dream may be coming true and he is destined to die.

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Victor Maddern

David orrick, david yates, doreen aris, charles perry, geoffrey tyrrell, richard davies, stratford johns, nicholas stuart, john fabian, percy herbert, robert bruce, philip vickers, malcolm arnold, michael balcon, lionel banes, victor goddard, jim morahan, r. c. sheriff, peter tanner.

The script is based on a personal account by Sir Victor Goddard.

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Released in United States 1955

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• On a routine flight from Hong Kong to Japan, a British military transport aircraft's fate may or may not depend on a prophetic nightmare.
• At a fashionable dinner party in Hong Kong, a Naval officer is coaxed into revealing details of a dream in which eight people take off from Bangkok, Thailand in a Dakota bound for Tokyo, Japan and crash in the Japanese mountains. Amongst those listening is Air Marshal Hardie (Sir Michael Redgrave), who is due to fly to Tokyo the next day. Hardie initially dismisses the dream because he is scheduled to fly out in a Liberator, but as Hardie arrives at the airport, he discovers that the Liberator has developed mechanical problems and has been replaced by a Dakota. When, just before the flight is due to depart, two soldiers board the plane making a complement of eight, Hardie fears that the dream may be coming true, and he is destined to die. — Dave Jenkins <[email protected]>

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THE NIGHT MY NUMBER CAME UP

Michael Redgrave stars as an RAF pilot who is tormented by the premonition that his plane will crash. After much trepidation, he agrees to take a routine flight. He notes that several of the small details in his premonition are occurring all around him.

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The night my number came up.

1955 Directed by Leslie Norman

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

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.

Michael Redgrave Sheila Sim Alexander Knox Denholm Elliott Ursula Jeans Bill Kerr Ralph Truman Michael Hordern Nigel Stock Alfie Bass George Rose Victor Maddern David Orr Hugh Moxey Nicholas Stuart John Fabian Percy Herbert Robert Bruce Philip Vickers Richard Davies

Director Director

Leslie Norman

Producers Producers

Michael Balcon Thomas N. Morahan

Writers Writers

R.C. Sherriff Victor Goddard

Editor Editor

Peter Tanner

Cinematography Cinematography

Lionel Banes

Assistant Director Asst. Director

Tom Pevsner

Special Effects Special Effects

Sydney Pearson

Composer Composer

Malcolm Arnold

Makeup Makeup

Alec Garfath

Ealing Studios

Alternative Titles

Το Όνειρο που Βγήκε Αληθινό, Sie waren 13, La scogliera della morte, 8인의 승객, 轮到我的那夜

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22 mar 1955, 19 dec 1955, releases by country.

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Review by Brian Saur ★★★½

A Quentin Tarantino recommendation from the Empire Podcast with he and Edgar Wright. Very pre-FINAL DESTINATION / Twilight Zoney film about a dream one character has that may be a premonition for a plane crash. The prospective passengers find the whole thing rather amusing at first, but then, slowly the details of the dream start to come to fruition & things get creepy and tense. Gratifying gradual build thriller. Watched on KANOPY.

Review by nomenclature ★★★★½

A parable about how skepticism inevitably turns to superstition whenever your number's called. The way the characters continually buckle against their foretold doom is pretty amusing.

Review by gibson8 ★★

George Rose plays a boorish Brummie trying to cadge a lift on the doomed flight and everyone treats him worse than the Chinese.

Very revealing little detail in a solid but uneventful pseudo-disaster flick.

Denhom Elliot and Michael Hordern suggest something interesting but Elliot is playing the character that he pretends to be in Rising Damp: The Movie and Hordern bows out after five minutes.

Review by trolleyfreak ★★★★ 4

'If a pilot gets the conviction that he isn't going to survive, gradually the strain turns it into an obsession..' (Michael Redgrave as Air Marshal Hardie) -- Brief Synopsis: In Hong Kong, a naval commander relates to a group of people a strange dream of his about a plane accident involving several of them. The next day, details of the dream appear to be coming true during a flight to Tokyo.. -- Verdict: I'm quite partial to an exciting 'plane in peril' flick and over the years have been royally entertained by such titles as Island In The Sky, The High And The Mighty and Zero Hour! Even lesser works like the Airport series and Skyjacked from the '70's disaster…

Review by John S. ★★★

A somewhat flat number that strives to chill the anatomy with a series of facts cosmically piling up against our British military flyers told in a dream the previous night. Psst, it ends catastrophically. Well, it’s vague. The Chinese, it is stated by a few in the film, believe their dreams foretell the future and you can imagine just how crazy that must sound to these extremely reasonable fellows. Proper, proper men. But the details start bothering a few passengers as they manifest into reality (the number and kind of passengers), and, like magic, terrible things start occurring. There is no real worry, however, and no chance that anyone here is getting hurt. The conceit might not work for everyone;…

Review by Paul D ★★★½

The passengers on an official flight from Hong Kong to Japan learn that someone has dreamt that it will crash. Bit by bit the details of the dream start to come true.

You can see how this would make a good Twilight Zone episode or perhaps more appropriately how it could have been a part of Ealing's own Dead of Night anthology, but it's actually a story which goes deeper, asking questions about rationalism versus fatalism.

In a sense it is reminiscent of Pontypool , which may seem like a bit of a stretch bearing in mind that film's setting, but both movies are about the power of words and the effect they can have on people's minds. No one here…

Review by pirateneckbeard ★★★

It was a fun British film with a Rank production style to it. A good cast and kind of has this light fever dream quality to it maybe it's do to the small set design. I enjoyed seeing a young Denholm Elliot. The main premise is whether to believe in superstition but I kinda liked the next development in certain characters to almost accept there doomed fate(that part reminded me of "Journey Into Fear"). It was a fun light night watch but don't expect to much.

Review by Hattie ★★★½

A quirky drama with elements of the supernatural, The Night My Number Came Up stars Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim, Alexander Knox, Denholm Elliott and Michael Hordern, in a small but important role.

Based on a clairvoyant experience which Air Marshal Sir Victor Goddard claimed to have witnessed in 1946, I particularly enjoyed the films narrative style where we, as the viewer, only ever know as much as the lead characters. The events of the film could be taking place through fate or coincidence, it is not made clear.

An intriguing film with some fine performances, particularly from Redgrave, Sim and Knox.

Review by Hellasguy315 ★★★★

"Storm, darkness, snow. This is it, isn't it?"

Next time I watch this, I'm hoping for a blizzard with some popcorn, a large Icee and a box of Milk Duds. Such a fun movie that takes place about ten years after WWII in Hong Kong. Its about a dream being told at a dinner party that bit by bit turns out to be true.

I heard about this movie from a podcast Quentin Tarantino did with Edgar Wright last year. This was a pick from Quentin and I was happy to see it was available from Kino.

Review by ForenSeek ★★

An interesting idea with an execution as dry as a crumpet and as stale as a cup of tea. Like an extended episode of The Twilight Zone, only without the atmosphere and excellent writing of that show.

Review by Niall Urquhart ★★★★

I don't remember hearing this get mentioned as one of the best Ealing films but it's easily up there. It's a really engaging film about superstition which in some respects shouldn't work but the cast is excellent throughout and the film keeps on doing enough to get over the inherent predictability of the plot. The crucial role was probably that of Michael Hordern who does a great job in setting up the premise and his presence lingers until he reappears at the end to crack a joke which concludes the film with a nudge and a wink.

Review by Andrew Male ★★★★

“So, the Chinese are right after all.” aka Dead Of Flight.

Exists in the same tormented Hordern nightmare universe as Whistle And I'll Come To You and Scrooge.

A properly gripping melodrama about fate, free will and how the Colonial stiff upper lip is destroyed by Oriental philosophy.

Beautiful detail: things really start to go to shit after they ghoulishly decide to fly over Nagasaki and Hiroshima so they can "take a look".

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