"Dead of Night"

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feeds@yuku.com (skull island escapee) — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 20:22:10 PST

The stuff of [delicious] nightmares, skelly!

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feeds@yuku.com (skelton knaggs) — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:09:06 PST

Who can argue with this?

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feeds@yuku.com (gatester) — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 23:26:39 PST

Who is Walter Craig? Most likely Louis B. Mayer.

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feeds@yuku.com (professor liebstrum) — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:19:46 PST

"Three Cases of Murder" is out on R2 now. Mora is right. "In the Picture" is well worth seeing and "Lord Mountdrago" [with Andre Morell and Orson Welles] is pretty damn good too. Russ

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feeds@yuku.com (Babetician) — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 07:50:28 PST

My first exposure to Dead of Night was the the mirror story on a big screen in 35 mm when I was 20. It was an evening of famous horror clips at a San Francisco revival house called The Avenue or something. I was very impressed. I think TV kills old horror...
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feeds@yuku.com (Saturday8pm) — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 04:51:07 PST

Thanks, Mora ... I bore people silly here gushing about those old shows ... they scared me TO DEATH ... I doubt CF will ever come back to NYC, but at least we have "Chiller" once a year again! Victory be ours! Tom: Not a surprise, and I got mine off ...
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feeds@yuku.com (TomWeaver999) — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 03:46:56 PST

A CHFB lurker e-mails me: << DEAD OF NIGHT has never sounded "good" -- kind of tubby and round. The 35mm prints that were circulating here theatrically in the 1980s -- assumedly from camera negative as they looked razor sharp and had the (now mis...
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feeds@yuku.com (Mora) — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 22:13:20 PST

Don't want to veer off topic, Saturday8pm (love that moniker - nostalgically reminds me of another local channel that used to occasionally play 1950s Columbia chillers that day and time!), but I've never forgotten that "In the Picture" segment - particula...
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feeds@yuku.com (Saturday8pm) — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 22:04:06 PST

Ahhh, thankee, Mora! one of the big reasons I ( we? ) start such threads is to find other quality films of similar theme!

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feeds@yuku.com (Mora) — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 21:48:30 PST

I, too, enjoyed "Dead of Night" when I saw a rare showing of it on CBC television some years back - in the afternoon yet! But I was a little disappointed because all the hype I'd read was so positive that the film ultimately couldn't help to be a bit of a...
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feeds@yuku.com (Saturday8pm) — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 21:37:28 PST

Nah, your ears are fine, Tom. It was hard making out the dialogue from time to time. Perhaps a digital audio cleanup is due. Ted, thanks for the heads up! Noted was the thread on that one.

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feeds@yuku.com (Ted Newsom) — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 21:21:21 PST

Watch & listen to GENIUS AT WORK instead. Consider it a palate-cleanser.

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feeds@yuku.com (TomWeaver999) — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:39:21 PST

Are my ears starting to fail me, or is the sound quality on the Anchor Bay DVD not-so-hot? Maybe it's the Englishter accents, but I have a hard time making out the dialogue.

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feeds@yuku.com (Saturday8pm) — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:53:06 PST

Well, I just finished seeing this gem. I think it's terrific. Terrifying? Not to me, no. But the tight story-within-a-story is very well-done here. I like how the various tales had their core elements reprised at the end. Another great surprise was to ...
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feeds@yuku.com (WaverBoy) — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:54:32 PST

Joe Karlosi wrote: unclepj wrote:To me, the only thing more horrifying than DEAD OF NIGHT is to read this thread and discover that some Johnny-come-latelies are calling it "over-rated." So's your old man!Well, I'll accept that. Because practica...
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feeds@yuku.com (Wich2) — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:21:18 PST

I like movies from ANY other country for their specific qualities (or defects)." Got you, TM - a balanced diet IS best! -Craig

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feeds@yuku.com (DonM435) — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 02:19:33 PST

I find Dead of Night to be darn near perfect. Even the comic piece serves its function, lightening the mood enough to make the dénouement all the more crashing.

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feeds@yuku.com (todmichel) — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:58:35 PST

Wich2 wrote:>>Agreed, Rick - it is a a bit "British," compared to Hollywood fare of the time<< >Probably, and for some people - me included - it's rather a compliment.< No need to be Old World snobbish, Todmichel; as I said, I like t...
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feeds@yuku.com (Joe Karlosi) — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:56:45 PST

unclepj wrote: To me, the only thing more horrifying than DEAD OF NIGHT is to read this thread and discover that some Johnny-come-latelies are calling it "over-rated." So's your old man!Well, I'll accept that. Because practically anything is more ef...
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feeds@yuku.com (unclepj) — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 09:10:04 PST

I first saw DEAD OF NIGHT when I was a teenager in the Sixties, projected in 16mm, (the film, not me), and I've loved it ever since. I've had a VHS of it forever, and just the other day purchased a DVD. I also happen to agree with the list that...
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"Dead of Night"

feeds@yuku.com (Saturday8pm) — Mon, 24 May 2010 17:36:32 PST

The Brit thriller from 1945 ... any fans? I've not seen it.