Dead of night [videorecording] / Ealing Studios ; produced by Michael Balcon ; directed by Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer, screen play by John Baines, Angus MacPhail, additional dialogueby T.E.B. Clarke. The Queen of spades / produced by Anatole de Grunwald ; directed by Thorold Dickinson ; the screenplay by Rodney Ackland and Arthur Boys.
Dead of night is based on short stories: The Linking story, and The Hearse / by E.F. Benson, and The Golfing story / by H.G. Wells, and by one story each by the writers of the screenplay. Queen of spades is based on Pikovai͡a dama / by Aleksandr Pushkin. Special features, both films: behind-the-scenes stills gallery; poster and stills gallery. Special feature, Queen of spades: original theatrical trailer. Videodisc release of two motion pictures produced in 1945 and 1948. Dead of night: Michael Redgrave, Sally Ann Howes, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne. Queen of Spades: Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans, Ronald Howarad, Mary Jerrold, Yvonne Mitchell.
Contents:
[Disc 1] Dead of night -- [disc 2] The Queen of spades.
Summary:
Dead of night: An architect is caught up in an endless series of recurring dreams, during which he is told other people's supernatural experiences. He finally murders the psychiatrist who is trying to help him. Queen of Spades: Herman tries to learn the secret to winning money so he can afford to court Lisa. He fails tragically, and Herman, Lisa, and her mysterious grandmother all die.
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