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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0013131239799
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 20, 2003
Running Time: 198 minutes
Sales Rank: 15941
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: June 28, 1946
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Description:
DEAD OF NIGHT A group of strangers is mysteriously gathered at a country estate where each reveals a chilling tale of the supernatural. First, a racer survives a brush with death only to receive terrifying premonitions from beyond the grave. Then a teen's innocent game of hide-and-seek leads to an encounter with the macabre. Next, a young couple purchases an antique mirror that unleashes a horrific power from its past. In a lighter vein, two competitive golfers play for stakes that may haunt the winner forever. Finally, a renowned ventriloquist descends into an abyss of madness and murder when his dummy develops a mind of its own. But even after these frightening tales are told, does one final nightmare await them all? Britain's venerable Ealing Studios brought together four brilliant directors -Charles Crichton (THE LAVENDER HILL MOB), Basil Dearden (THE MIND BENDERS), Alberto Cavalcanti (NICHOLAS NICKLEBY) and Robert Hamer (KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS) to create this classic chiller that remains one of the most influential horror films ever made. This is the uncut and complete UK version of DEAD OF NIGHT, now newly restored from original archival materials for the first time in decades.
THE QUEEN OF SPADES 'Unusual And Macabre!' ~ Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide A gambling craze is sweeping 19th century St. Petersburg, yet a dashing Russian army captain (Anton Walbrook of THE RED SHOES) is too impoverished to participate. But when he learns that an aging countess (an award-winning performance by Dame Edith Evans of TOM JONES) may hold the ultimate key to gaming riches, the desperate young officer will stop at nothing to steal the sinister secret for himself. When fortunes are won and lost with the turn of a card, will one man wager his very soul on a final twist of fate? Yvonne Mitchell (DEMONS OF THE MIND) co-stars in this brilliant British chiller directed by Thorold Dickinson (GASLIGHT), featuring extraordinary cinematography by Otto Heller (PEEPING TOM, THE IPCRESS FILE) and based on the celebrated short story by Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. Includes AN 8-page Collector's Booklet.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - "It tells of strange things that some say are better left alone..."
I bought this double disc set from Anchor Bay for one very well regarded and respected "anthology" horror flick. And although "Dead of Night" was indeed everything it was cracked up to be, for me it was disappointing in two ways: 1.) The audio was more "horrid" than the tales of "horror" told therein, with every male voice sounding like "Leslie Howard on helium" and every female like "Billy Burke in a bubble"! 2.) The film destroyed all previous ignorant notions I had that Rod Serling and his writing ... Read More
Rating:  - Dead of Night/The Queen of Spades
This DVD set has a good image quality. However, the sound quality especially for Dead of Night has been altered to "clean up" noise and in doing so the audio seems to cut off and on in the most annoying way. I've owned this fine classic film in the other "out dated" formats (vhs and laserdisc) and preferred the little bit of hissing and scratching to having the sound go out completely during the more quiet moments. I really wonder who decides on these choices and if they're even checking the quality (or ... Read More
Rating:  - Oldie but goodie
Black and white. 1949. Actors you may or may not know. No matter, this is a keeper!
Rating: - Dead of Night/The Queen of Spades
Dead of Night is probably one of the best horror/mystery movies that I've seen. I had not seen The Queen of Spades before I bought this set as I was interested in Dead of Night and found it to be just as frightening. I would recommend these two movies to all true horror/mystery fans who can appreciate the more subtle approaches to horror and suspense produced by these British studios.
Rating: - Two fine, unsettling movies to watch late at night
--Dead of Night - Dead of Night remains, sixty years after it was made at Ealing Studios, one of the creepiest and most intelligent of supernatural films. No, it doesn't have creaking coffins, or pale hands edging through a doorway, or Ruritanian vampires. It has a country home set in the warm Kentish countryside, civilized house guests with excellent manners, five stories of unhinged supernatural happenings, and one guest who suffers from nightmares. This is an anthology film, with the stories ranging from ... Read More
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