The Night My Number Came Up

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The Night My Number Came Up
Directed by	Les Norman
Produced by	Michael Balcon
Written by	R. C. Sherriff
Starring	Michael Redgrave Sheila Sim Denholm Elliot Michael Hordern
Music by	Malcolm Arnold
Cinematography	Lionel Banes
Editing by	Peter Tanner
Release date(s)	1955 (UK)
Running time	94 min.
Language	English

The Night My Number Came Up is a 1955 film, directed by Les Norman. The Ealing screenplay was written by R. C. Sherriff based on a real incident in the life of British Air Marshall Sir Victor Goddard.

[edit] Plot summary

A senior Royal Air Force officer (Michael Redgrave) is at a party at which one of those present, (Michael Hordern), talks about a dream he had in which the Air Force Officer and a group of companions are flying in a Dakota which crashes on a rocky shore. The Air Marshall is due to fly the following day, but is not disturbed because the many of the details differ from his planned voyage. However by the time the flight takes place circumstances have changed so that all the details correspond to the dream. Moreover the plane does actually crash on a rocky shore near Japan.