| The Night My Number Came Up | |
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| 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 |
| Distributed by | General Film Distributors (UK) Continental Film Distributors (US) |
| Release date(s) | 1955 (UK) |
| Running time | 94 min. |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
The Night My Number Came Up (1955) is a film, directed by Les Norman at Ealing Studios. The screenplay was written by R. C. Sherriff based on a real incident in the life of British Air Marshal Sir Victor Goddard.[1]
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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 Marshal 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.
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