The Night My Number Came Up

The Night My Number Came Up
UK release poster
Directed byLeslie Norman
Written byR. C. Sherriff
Victor Goddard (story)
Produced byMichael Balcon
StarringMichael Redgrave
Sheila Sim
Alexander Knox
Denholm Elliott
CinematographyLionel Banes
Edited byPeter Tanner
Music byMalcolm Arnold
Production
company
Distributed byGeneral Film Distributors (UK)
Continental Film Distributors (US)
Release date
  • 22 March 1955 (1955-03-22) (UK)
Running time
94 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Night My Number Came Up is a 1955 British supernatural drama film directed by Leslie Norman with screenplay by R. C. Sherriff. The film stars Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim and Alexander Knox.[1]

The plot is based on a real incident in the life of British Air Marshal Sir Victor Goddard; his journal was published in The Saturday Evening Post of 26 May 1951.[2]

  1. ^ "The Night My Number Came Up". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 12 November 2023.
  2. ^ "Obituary of Sir Victor Goddard." The Times, January 1987.

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