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* "The Golfing Story" (directed by Charles Crichton): Foley, who owns the house, tells a story about two of his golfing buddies and the weird events that followed after they became romantic rivals.
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* "The Golfing Golfer's Story" (directed by Charles Crichton): Foley, who owns the house, tells a story about two of his golfing buddies and the weird events that followed after they became romantic rivals.
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''Dead of Night'' is a 1945 Creator/EalingStudios horror AnthologyFilm, with a cast including Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Sally Ann Howes, and Creator/MichaelRedgrave.
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''Dead of Night'' is a 1945 Creator/EalingStudios horror AnthologyFilm, with a cast including Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver, Googie Withers, Sally Ann Howes, and Creator/MichaelRedgrave.
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''Dead of Night'' is a 1945 Creator/EalingStudios horror AnthologyFilm, starring Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Sally Ann Howes, and Creator/MichaelRedgrave.
In the FramingStory, an architect named Walter Craig (Mervyn Johns) arrives at a country house to consult on renovations. Craig meets a group of people in the house and tells them that he has met them all in a dream, and that everyone was horribly murdered. Other guests recount their own supernatural experiences, including a premonition of disaster and a crazed ventriloquist dummy. Then the first man says he has a horrible feeling that the killer in his dream was himself, and begins to butcher them. He then wakes up from the nightmare, drives off, and arrives at the same country house. The film ends as it began, in a supposedly infinite loop.
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In the FramingStory, an architect named Walter Craig (Mervyn Johns) arrives at a country house to consult on renovations. Craig meets a group of people in the house and tells them that he has met them all in a dream, and that everyone was horribly murdered. Other guests recount their own supernatural experiences, including a premonition of disaster and a crazed ventriloquist dummy. Then the first man says he has a horrible feeling that the killer in his dream was himself, and begins to butcher them. He then wakes up from the nightmare, drives off, and arrives at the same country house. The film ends as it began, in a supposedly infinite loop.
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''Dead of Night'' is a 1945 Creator/EalingStudios horror AnthologyFilm, starring with a cast including Mervyn Johns, Googie Withers, Sally Ann Howes, and Creator/MichaelRedgrave.
In the FramingStory, an architect named Walter Craig (Mervyn Johns) arrives at a country house to consult on renovations. Craig meets a group of people in the house and tells them that he has met them all in a dream,and that in which everyone was horribly murdered. Other This leads other guests to recount their own supernatural experiences, including a premonition of disaster and a crazed ventriloquist dummy. Then the first man ventriloquist. Finally, Craig says he has a horrible feeling that the killer in his dream was himself, and begins to butcher them. He then wakes up from the nightmare, drives off, off... and arrives at the same country house. The film ends as it began, in a supposedly infinite loop.
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In the FramingStory, an architect named Walter Craig (Mervyn Johns) arrives at a country house to consult on renovations. Craig meets a group of people in the house and tells them that he has met them all in a dream,
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Not to be confused with [[ComicBook/DylanDog the 2011 Dylan Dog movie]] or the [[Literature/DeadOfNight gamebook]].
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Not to be confused with [[ComicBook/DylanDog the 2011 Dylan Dog movie]] or the [[Literature/DeadOfNight gamebook]].
gamebook]]. Or the 1977 TV anthology movie written by Creator/RichardMatheson.
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* {{Ventriloquism}}: In "The Ventriloquist's Dummy", Michael Redgrave plays an disturbed ventriloquist.
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* {{Ventriloquism}}: In "The Ventriloquist's Dummy", Michael Redgrave plays an a disturbed ventriloquist.
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Not to be confused with [[ComicBook/DylanDog the 2011 Dylan Dog movie]].
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Not to be confused with [[ComicBook/DylanDog the 2011 Dylan Dog movie]].
movie]] or the [[Literature/DeadOfNight gamebook]].
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* "The Hearse Driver" (directed by Basil Dearden). Hugh the race car driver, recuperating in the hospital after a wreck, looks out his window and sees a strange vision.
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* "The Hearse Driver" (directed by Basil Dearden).Creator/BasilDearden). Hugh the race car driver, recuperating in the hospital after a wreck, looks out his window and sees a strange vision.
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* plus the "Linking Narrative" (directed by Basil Dearden)
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* plus the "Linking Narrative" (directed by Basil Dearden)
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* CainAndAbel: An example based on real life. Sally encounters the ghost of Francis Kent who was murdered by his older half-sister Constance.
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* ItsPronouncedTropay: The ventriloquist Frere's surname is pronounced "Freya". We wouldn't have a clue how it's spelt if it weren't spelt out in Kee's statement.
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* PronouncingMyNameForYou: The ventriloquist Frere's surname is pronounced "Freya". We wouldn't have a clue how it's spelt if it weren't spelt out in Kee's statement.
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* TimeTitle: Since the bulk of the movie takes place in a dream at night.
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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Hugo/Maxwell Frere when he's performing. First, he tells the beautiful, unsuspecting French lady, "Didn't I see you working your...[[LastSecondWordSwap head]] off in the Folies Bergère[[note]] a well known cabaret music hall[[/note]]?" And when Frere (as Maxwell) asks Hugo, "Oh, the lady's face is familiar, is it?", Hugo replies, "What would I be doing in the Folies Bergère looking at faces?"
** His parting words to the audience are, "Good night, sleep tight, wake up [[BaitAndSwitch sober]]".
** His parting words to the audience are, "Good night, sleep tight, wake up [[BaitAndSwitch sober]]".
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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Hugo/Maxwell Frere when he's performing. First, he tells the beautiful, unsuspecting French lady, "Didn't I see GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you working your...[[LastSecondWordSwap head]] off are reading this in the Folies Bergère[[note]] a well known cabaret music hall[[/note]]?" And when Frere (as Maxwell) asks Hugo, "Oh, future, please check the lady's face is familiar, is it?", Hugo replies, "What would I be doing in trope page to make sure your example fits the Folies Bergère looking at faces?"
** His parting words to the audience are, "Good night, sleep tight, wake up [[BaitAndSwitch sober]]".current definition.
** His parting words to the audience are, "Good night, sleep tight, wake up [[BaitAndSwitch sober]]".
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In the FramingStory, an architect named Walter Craig (Mervyn Johns) arrives at a country house to consult on renovations. Craig meets a group of people in the house and tells them that he has even them all in a dream, and that everyone was horribly murdered. Other guests recount their own supernatural experiences, including a premonition of disaster and a crazed ventriloquist dummy. Then the first man says he has a horrible feeling that the killer in his dream was himself, and begins to butcher them. He then wakes up from the nightmare, drives off, and arrives at the same country house. The film ends as it began, in a supposedly infinite loop.
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In the FramingStory, an architect named Walter Craig (Mervyn Johns) arrives at a country house to consult on renovations. Craig meets a group of people in the house and tells them that he has even met them all in a dream, and that everyone was horribly murdered. Other guests recount their own supernatural experiences, including a premonition of disaster and a crazed ventriloquist dummy. Then the first man says he has a horrible feeling that the killer in his dream was himself, and begins to butcher them. He then wakes up from the nightmare, drives off, and arrives at the same country house. The film ends as it began, in a supposedly infinite loop.
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* DrivenToSuicide: In "The Golfing Story", Potter commits [[SuicideBySea suicide by water hazard]] after losing Mary to Parratt in a gam of golf: a game in which Parratt cheated.
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* DrivenToSuicide: In "The Golfing Story", Potter commits [[SuicideBySea suicide by water hazard]] after losing Mary to Parratt in a gam game of golf: a game in which Parratt cheated.
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* PlaguedByNightmares: Walter Craig is called to a country house for work purposes. He realizes he knows all those assembled because they appear in a recurring dream he has and predicts what will happen to those assembled (including his killing them). Each guest recounts a bizarre and spooky story to distract him and entertain each other -- but all of Craig's foretold events occur. He begins murdering those in the assembled group and then runs afoul of the characters in the stories he has heard, one of whom begins strangling him. He wakes up to a phone call, summoning him to a country home for work purposes, [[GroundhogDayLoop thereby starting the nightmare over]].
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* "The Hearse Driver" (directed by Basil Dearden)
* "The Christmas Party" (directed by Alberto Cavalcanti)
* "The Haunted Mirror" (directed by Robert Hamer)
* "The Golfing Story" (directed by Charles Crichton)
* "The Ventriloquist's Dummy" (directed by Alberto Cavalcanti)
* "The Christmas Party" (directed by Alberto Cavalcanti)
* "The Haunted Mirror" (directed by Robert Hamer)
* "The Golfing Story" (directed by Charles Crichton)
* "The Ventriloquist's Dummy" (directed by Alberto Cavalcanti)
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* "The Hearse Driver" (directed by Basil Dearden)
Dearden). Hugh the race car driver, recuperating in the hospital after a wreck, looks out his window and sees a strange vision.
* "The Christmas Party" (directed by AlbertoCavalcanti)
Cavalcanti). Sally, a teenaged girl, shares the story of a ghost she saw at a Christmas party for kids.
* "The Haunted Mirror" (directed by RobertHamer)
Hamer): Joan Cortland tells about the antique mirror that she bought for her husband, and the strange reflection he saw in it.
* "The Golfing Story" (directed by CharlesCrichton)
Crichton): Foley, who owns the house, tells a story about two of his golfing buddies and the weird events that followed after they became romantic rivals.
* "The Ventriloquist's Dummy" (directed by AlbertoCavalcanti)Cavalcanti): Dr. Van Stratten recalls a case he worked on, concerning one Maxwell Frere (Creator/MichaelRedgrave), a ventriloquist who has an unhealthy relationship with his dummy.
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* "The Golfing Story" (directed by Charles
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* MindScrew: The circular nature of the narrative makes it unclear just what is reality and what isn't. Is Craig stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop in which he continually visits the country house? Maybe, but if the FramingDevice in the country house is "reality", that doesn't explain how he cycles through all the stories that were told in a hallucinatory, dreamlike manner before waking up in his bed. So if the FramingDevice is a dream, then he must actually be having the same dream over and over again...which would make it an infinite DreamWithinADream nest as he continually "wakes up" and then the story starts again.
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* LaughingMad: Maxwell, who is coming completely unglued, laughs maniacally as he shoots Kee.
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* FlashbackWithinAFlashback: "The Ventriloquist's Dummy" has Dr. Van Straaten tell the story of his consultation in the Maxwell Frere case. In his flashback Van Straaten reads the statement of witness Sylvester Kee...and the bulk of the story then unfolds from Kee's narrative as a second flashback.
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* {{Expy}}: Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford appear as the comic duo Charters and Caldicott, the characters they'd been playing in several films dating back to 1938 and '' Film/TheLadyVanishes''--except that due to contract dispute they were no longer able to call the characters "Charters" and "Caldicott". So in this movie they play a functionally identical comic pair named Parratt and Potter.
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* ImpairmentShot: Hugh the race-car driver wakes up in the hospital after a crash; a blurred picture comes into focus as Joyce the nurse.
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In the FramingStory, a group of people meet in a country house and one man declares he has seen the meeting in a dream and that everyone was horribly murdered. Other guests recount their own supernatural experiences, including a premonition of disaster and a crazed ventriloquist dummy. Then the first man says he has a horrible feeling that the killer in his dream was himself, and begins to butcher them. He then wakes up from the nightmare, drives off, and arrives at the same country house. The film ends as it began, in a supposedly infinite loop.
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In the FramingStory, an architect named Walter Craig (Mervyn Johns) arrives at a country house to consult on renovations. Craig meets a group of people meet in a country the house and one man declares tells them that he has seen the meeting even them all in a dream dream, and that everyone was horribly murdered. Other guests recount their own supernatural experiences, including a premonition of disaster and a crazed ventriloquist dummy. Then the first man says he has a horrible feeling that the killer in his dream was himself, and begins to butcher them. He then wakes up from the nightmare, drives off, and arrives at the same country house. The film ends as it began, in a supposedly infinite loop.
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* "The Hearse Driver"
Driver" (directed by Basil Dearden)
* "The ChristmasParty"
Party" (directed by Alberto Cavalcanti)
* "The HauntedMirror"
Mirror" (directed by Robert Hamer)
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Story" (directed by Charles Crichton)
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Dummy" (directed by Alberto Cavalcanti)
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* CompeteForTheMaidensHand: In "The Golfing Story", Parratt and Potter are in the love with the same woman, who cannot choose between them, so they play a round of golf for her hand, with the winner earning the right to marry her.
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* DrivenToSuicide: In "The Golfing Story", Potter commits [[SuicideBySea suicide by water hazard]] after losing Mary to Parratt in a gam of golf: a game in which Parratt cheated.
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* LoveTriangle: In "The Golfing Story", Potter and Parratt are both in love with Mary, who loves each of them equally. They eventually agree to break the deadlock by playing a round of golf: the winner to receive Mary's hand in marriage. Mary enthusiastically agrees to this proposal.
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* FelonyMisdemeanor: In "The Golfing Story", cheating at golf is considered the most heinous sin a man can commit. So serious that Potter returns from the dead to punish Parratt for it.
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* SeriousBusiness: In "The Golfing Story", cheating at golf is considered the most heinous sin a man can commit. So serious that Potter returns from the dead to punish Parratt for it.
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* SeriousBusiness: In "The Golfing Story", cheating at golf is considered the most heinous sin a man can commit. So serious that Potter returns from the dead to punish Parratt for it.
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* ClothingCombat: Peter attempts to strangle Joan with his scarf. During the film's nightmarish climax, [[spoiler:Walter does strangle Dr. Van Straaten with his tie]].