Night Comes Too Soon
Appearance
Night Comes Too Soon | |
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Directed by | Denis Kavanagh |
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Produced by | Harold Baim |
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Cinematography | Ray Densham |
Edited by | Dorothy Elliot |
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Distributed by | Butcher's Film Service |
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Running time | 52 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Night Comes Too Soon is a 1948 British horror film directed by Denis Kavanagh and starring Valentine Dyall, Anne Howard and Alec Faversham. It was based on the story The Haunters and the Haunted by Edward Bulwer-Lytton,[1] and also incorporates the "changing picture" component from The Mezzotint by M. R. James. It was released in the United States under the alternative title of The Ghost of Rashmon Hall.
The film was made as a second feature for release on the lower half of a double bill. It was shot at a manor house near Mill Hill, part of a trend of renting country houses rather than studio space by low-budget producers after the Second World War.[2]
Cast
[edit]- Valentine Dyall as Dr. George Clinton
- Anne Howard as Phyllis
- Alec Faversham as John
- Howard Douglas
- Beatrice Marsden as Mrs. Paxton
- Arthur Brander
- Anthony Baird as Lionel Waddell
- Frank Dunlop
- David Keir as The Estate Agent
- Monti DeLyle as Ghost of Rinaldo Sabata
- Nina Erber as Ghost of Marianna Sabata
- John Desmond as Ghost of The Sailor
References
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Chibnall, Steve & McFarlane, Brian. The British 'B' Film. Palgrave MacMillan, 2009.
External links
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Categories:
- 1948 films
- British horror films
- 1948 horror films
- Films set in country houses
- Films set in England
- Films based on works by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- British black-and-white films
- 1940s English-language films
- 1940s British films
- English-language horror films
- 1940s British film stubs
- Pre-1960 horror film stubs
- 1940s film stubs