Dead of Night, a 1944 anthology film featuring a mad ventriliquist segment
The script began as a still-born television series in 1948 during the time when Dead of Night was a recent release.
Among his dozens of film roles were Walter Craig in Dead of Night (1945), the Church Warden in Went the Day Well? and Bob Cratchit in Scrooge (1951).
However, except for Dead of Night, Ealing's films for the remainder of the war failed to enjoy the same commercial success as the earlier "unrealistic" war films and were eclipsed at the box office by the Gainsborough Melodramas.
Dead of Night (1945) British horror film, "Ventriloquist's Dummy" sequence, starring Michael Redgrave
It may also draw on the 1978 motion picture Magic (in which a schizophrenic ventriloquist's dummy is actually alive) and an episode in the 1945 British anthology film, Dead of Night.
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They appeared together in several other 1940s films, including Crook's Tour (1941), Millions Like Us (1943), Dead of Night (1945), Quartet (1948), It's Not Cricket (1949) and Passport to Pimlico (1949).
The 1940s then brought a steady stream of good film parts including her best-remembered roles as Mrs. Foley in the 1945 classic Dead of Night and Mrs. Nickleby in the Alberto Cavalcanti-directed 1947 screen version of Nicholas Nickleby.
One of her last performances was a storyline in which Amy broke into Coventry Cathedral in the dead of night in order to mourn her son.
The Amazing Race (9.3) shows many of the contestants passing '629' in the dead of night on their way to Dulles Airport.
Recently, he was in an episode of CSI: NY, Heroes (TV series) and a cameo in "Dead of Night," a film based on the Italian comic book Dylan Dog.
In 1961, James A. Leonard, was the "first Executive Director of the Republican Party of Texas to emphasize the Party's new intention to become a force in state government." "In the dead of night," he moved the Party Headquarters from Houston to Austin" and "mobilized the Party's meager resources to support the candidacy of a 36-year-old Associate Professor of Government, John Tower, to fill Lyndon Johnson's vacant US Senate Seat.