The Night My Number Came Up

An odd drama in the DEAD OF NIGHT tradition, this is exciting and well shot by Norman (making his feature debut), with good performances by all. Redgrave, an air marshal in the Far East, has had a nightmare about crashing in a Dakota plane in an isolated spot off the Japanese coast. He is due to fly to Tokyo with his aide, Elliott, in a Liberator plane, so the uneasiness caused by his dream (which has eight people on the airship) is allayed. Then, due to a series of circumstances beyond his control, Redgrave and Elliott are diverted from the Liberator and placed aboard a Dakota with the same people he's dreamed about, including Knox and Sim. Little by little, all t...