The Night My Number Came Up (1955, United Kingdom)
mysterious eventsparanormal activity
Running time: 90 minutes
Language: English
During a party, Commander Lindsay shares with the guests the extraordinary dream that he had. In that dream, he saw a DC-3 Dakota plane with eight passengers onboard that met a heavy storm and crashed on the ocean shore. Lindsay saw a great deal of details, like the fact that one of the passengers will be an Air Marshall, others will be a beautiful girl, another will be an important civilian, another one will have a loud voice. He also saw the lighthouse close to the crash scene and a fishing village. The guests did not take this story seriously, even though one of them, Air Marshal Hardie, will soon take a plane to Tokyo. But since he will be flying only with his assistant, and they will be travelling on an RAF bomber, the story was just an anecdote. But soon Hardie learns that the plans have changed, and in fact he will be taking a DC-3 Dakota instead of a bomber. Later, he receives a call from Lord Wainwright, who would like to join him on the way to Tokyo. He won’t be travelling alone, so together this would make 6 passengers. At the airport they are approached by 2 soldiers, who were late for their flight to Okinawa and seek the chance to flight with them. Together, that would give 8 passengers onboard...
"The Night My Number Came Up" is one of the movies that is hard to be placed in a specific genre - it is a sort-of thriller, it is sort-of adventure, it is sort-of mystery movie. However, we will call it a good movie with a simple plot, but still, it keeps the audience interested to the very end. The script was based on real events that took place in 1945 and British Air Marshal Sir Victor Goddard was the depicted in the movies as Hardie.
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Our rating |
6.4 / 10 |
Movie value |
8 / 10 |
Realism factor |
4 / 5 |
Adventure factor |
2 / 5 |
Story complexity |
2 / 5 |
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