Michael Hordern turns up at an airbase after a plane has disappeared, claiming he can see where the plane has crashed, and directs a search to the north-west coast of Japan. He had dreamed the crash, makes the mistake of telling a couple of the people destined to fly, and as bits of his dream become true, it puts the willies up them something rotten, especially former nervous breakdown pilot Denholm Elliott.
With Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim, Canadian-born Alexander Knox, Ralph Truman, Ursula Jeans, Nigel Stock (pilot), Bill Kerr & Alfie Bass (soldiers), George Rose, Victor Maddern (who I probably remember from The Dick Emery Show).
Written by R.C. Sherriff, based on a story by Victor Goddard, photographed by Lionel Banes, music by Malcolm Arnold, cute model planes courtesy of Ealing Studios.
It's kinda funny that the Knox character, pictured above right, has written a book critiquing superstition but is the one most frightened (and in an amusing scene, won't walk under a ladder).
Ealing / Michael Redgrave then link us to the second in our supernatural double bill, Dead of Night.
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