Ealingfilmfan

Just like to say wonderful review by "Hidden Depths" Watched the entire episodes at the time (1972) and still think it was unmissable. "You've been messing in my briefcase have you lad" Milton Johns later appeared in Coronation Street as Brendon Scott. I think the series really captured the essence of the lonely wild and windswept Cumbrian coast.

Broadcast by Granada around teatime on Sunday, if I recall correctly, I was hooked by the very first episode, when I have mentioned it to my friends not many recall it, which is a great shame. "Sonny" came across as very strange and menacing, in fact top marks to all the cast.

I first saw "Dead of Night" around the mid sixties, and as others have said, it sent shivers down your spine. Agreed it is a bit dated now, but that is understandable after such a long time. Having viewed it now, around thirty odd times, for me it has lost none of it's appeal, Miles Malleson excels, as do Mervyn Johns and Michael Redgrave. The "haunted mirror" sequence with Googie Withers is especially frightening, in fact even now, whenever I go into an antique shop and see a large mirror hanging on the wall, I often wonder what terrors would await me if I bought it and took it home..... Actually, I quite enjoyed the light relief of "The golfer's tale" with Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne, quirky,and very British..... Interesting that Johns and Sally Anne Howes were cast together in another Ealing classic from the previous year "Halfway House", which IMO is equally enjoyable......Recommended as a "must see".... "Just room for one inside sir".................