The Night My Number Came Up

The Night My Number Came Up is a 1955 British supernatural drama film directed by Leslie Norman with the screenplay written by R. C. Sherriff. The plot is based on a real incident in the life of British Air Marshal Sir Victor Goddard his journal being published in The Saturday Evening Post,May 1951. The film stars Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim and Alexander Knox. This was Sims final film before her retirement from acting.

When problems ground the original aircraft, a Dakota airliner is substituted, the same one in the dream, and a number of other passengers arrive to make the entire crew and passengers match the dreams number of 13. Moreover, as the flight proceeds circumstances change so that eventually all the details correspond to the dream including the aircraft crashing on a rocky shore in Japan.Leslie Norman said he found the original magazine article and suggested it become a film. He wrote a synopsis and sent it to Michael Balcon, who agreed to make the film although he refused to let Leslie Norman write the script which Norman wanted to do and insisted R.C. Sheriff get the job. Norman later said I dont think R.C. Sheriff added anything to it. ........

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