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.
Cast
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")
Ralph Michael
Peter Cortland (Segment "The Haunted Mirror")
Esme Percy
Antiques Dealer (Segment "The Haunted Mirror")
Basil Radford
George Parratt (Segment "The Golfing Story")
Naunton Wayne
Larry Potter (Segment "The Golfing Story")
Peggy Bryan
Mary Lee (Segment "The Golfing Story")
Allan Jeayes
Maurice Olcott (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
Michael Redgrave
Maxwell Frere (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
Elisabeth Welch
Beulah (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
Hartley Power
Sylvester Kee (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
Magda Kun
Mitzi (Magda Kun "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
Garry Marsh
Harry Parker (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
Renee Gadd
Mrs. Craig (Segment "Linking Story")
John McGuire
Hugo Fitch (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy") (Uncredited)
Peter Jones
Fred, Barman (Segment "Golfing Story") (Uncredited)
Paul Bonifas
French Nightclub Patron (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy") (Uncredited)
Patrick Aherne
Doctor at Psychiatric Hospital (Segment "The Ventriloquist's Dummy") (Uncredited)
Crew
Charles Crichton
Director
Robert Hamer
Director
Alberto Cavalcanti
Director
Basil Dearden
Director
T. E. B. Clarke
Writer, Additional Dialogue
John Baines
Screenplay, Original Story
Angus MacPhail
Screenplay, Original Story
Charles Hasse
Editor
F. Thomson
Assistant Editor
Seth Holt
Assistant Editor
Daphne Heathcote
Assistant Editor, Continuity
E. Leverett
Assistant Editor
Douglas Slocombe
Director of Photography
Stanley Pavey
Director of Photography
Norman Hipwell
Second Assistant Director
Claude Hudson
Third Assistant Director
P. Potter
Third Assistant Director
Rowland Douglas
Assistant Director
Billy Russell
Assistant Director
Hal Mason
Production Supervisor
Michael Balcon
Producer
John Croydon
Associate Producer
Sidney Cole
Associate Producer
Jack Parker
Camera Operator
H. Julius
Camera Operator
Marion Horn
Costume Design
Bianca Mosca
Costume Design
Tom Shenton
Makeup Artist
Jim Morahan
Assistant Art Director
Mary Habberfield
Sound Editor
Eric Williams
Sound Supervisor
A.E. Rudolph
Sound Recordist
Len Page
Sound Recordist
Tom Otter
Boom Operator
Nikolai Boulatoff
Boom Operator
Lionel Banes
Special Effects
Cliff Richardson
Special Effects
Georges Auric
Original Music Composer
Bruce Campbell
Music Arranger
Henry Moore
Painter
Roy Gough
Still Photographer
John Winbolt
Clapper Loader
Maurice Selwyn
Clapper Loader
George Levy
Clapper Loader
M. Hamilton
Continuity
Gwen Bartle
Continuity
Elaine Schreyeck
Continuity
Heather Armitage
Draughtsman
Tony Rimmington
Draughtsman
Len Wills
Draughtsman
Michael Shepherd
Focus Puller
Gerry Turpin
Focus Puller
Ronald Brantford
Unit Manager
H. G. Wells
Original Story
E.F. Benson
Original Story
Ernest Irving
Conductor
Michael Relph
Art Direction
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