Ealing's first post-war film was Dead of Night, one of the best films ever made about the supernatural. It was the first 'portmanteau' film made at Ealing, wherein a number of different directors were able to contribute an individual story without unbalancing the unity.

An architect (Mervyn Johns) arrives at a house party in the country where a number of other guests are assembled. Immediately he feels a sense of deja vu, that he has been through it all before. He realises that a recurrent dream has suddenly come to life, and he knows, but cannot quite remember, that there is an evil climax.

The script is Continuity/Dialogue so a technician wrote it and not a writer. It is photocopy streaked in sections.