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The Night My Number Came Up (1955)

The Night My Number Came Up poster
Directed by
Leslie Norman
Genre
drama film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 34m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 33 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A British air marshal dreams of a plane crash in detail. The people around him worry the dream might be a premonition that is coming true.

suspensefulominousrestraineduncannydeliberately pacedunderstatedspookythoughtfulstiff-upper-lip

What happens

The Night My Number Came Up is a 1955 British supernatural drama film directed by Leslie Norman and starring Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim and Alexander Knox. The screenplay by R. C. Sherriff was based on an incident in the life of British Air Marshal Sir Victor Goddard whose journal was published in The Saturday Evening Post of 26 May 1951. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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