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'''''The Night My Number Came Up''''' is a 1955 British supernatural [[drama film]] directed by [[Leslie Norman (director)|Leslie Norman]] and starring [[Michael Redgrave]], [[Sheila Sim]] and [[Alexander Knox]].{{Cite web |title=The Night My Number Came Up |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150034567 |access-date=12 November 2023 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search}} The screenplay by [[R. C. Sherriff |
'''''The Night My Number Came Up''''' is a 1955 British supernatural [[drama film]] directed by [[Leslie Norman (director)|Leslie Norman]] and starring [[Michael Redgrave]], [[Sheila Sim]] and [[Alexander Knox]].{{Cite web |title=The Night My Number Came Up |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150034567 |access-date=12 November 2023 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search}} The screenplay by [[R. C. Sherriff]] was based on an incident in the life of British Air Marshal [[Victor Goddard|Sir Victor Goddard]] whose journal was published in ''[[The Saturday Evening Post]]'' of 26 May 1951."Obituary of Sir Victor Goddard." ''The Times'', January 1987. |
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''[[Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' said "Someone relates a dream; and the dream comes true – except for the climax, in which the passengers survive instead of being killed. This makes for a certain lack of surprise in ''The Night My Number Came Up,'' particularly as the flashback construction informs us trom the first reel that the plane has crashed, anyway, and reduces the whole story to a single item of doubt. The players are not given much scope with some conventionally written parts, though Nigel Stock creates a genuinely individual figure as the pilot. Direction is efficient."{{Cite journal |date=1955 |title=The Night My Number Came Up |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305823752 |journal=[[Monthly Film Bulletin]] |volume=22 |issue=252 |pages=76 |id={{ProQuest|1305823752}} }} |
''[[Monthly Film Bulletin]]'' said "Someone relates a dream; and the dream comes true – except for the climax, in which the passengers survive instead of being killed. This makes for a certain lack of surprise in ''The Night My Number Came Up,'' particularly as the flashback construction informs us trom the first reel that the plane has crashed, anyway, and reduces the whole story to a single item of doubt. The players are not given much scope with some conventionally written parts, though Nigel Stock creates a genuinely individual figure as the pilot. Direction is efficient."{{Cite journal |date=1955 |title=The Night My Number Came Up |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1305823752 |journal=[[Monthly Film Bulletin]] |volume=22 |issue=252 |pages=76 |id={{ProQuest|1305823752}} }} |
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''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' reviewed the film as "A highly competent piece of filmmaking, it is packed with suspense. [...] Leslie Norman's incisive direction sustains the tension and Lionel Banes has lensed the production with commendable skill."{{Cite |
''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' reviewed the film as "A highly competent piece of filmmaking, it is packed with suspense. [...] Leslie Norman's incisive direction sustains the tension and Lionel Banes has lensed the production with commendable skill."{{Cite magazine |date=24 March 1954 |title=The Night My Number Came Up |magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |volume=198 |issue=5 |pages=9}} |
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In ''British Sound Films'' [[David Quinlan (film critic)|David Quinlan]] writes: "Suspense drama holds the attention all the way."{{Cite book |last=Quinlan |first=David |title=British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 |publisher=[[Batsford Books|B.T. Batsford Ltd.]] |year=1984 |isbn=0-7134-1874-5 |location=London |pages=352}} |
In ''British Sound Films'' [[David Quinlan (film critic)|David Quinlan]] writes: "Suspense drama holds the attention all the way."{{Cite book |last=Quinlan |first=David |title=British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928–1959 |publisher=[[Batsford Books|B.T. Batsford Ltd.]] |year=1984 |isbn=0-7134-1874-5 |location=London |pages=352}} |
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