The Night My Number Came Up (1955)

At a dinner party in Hong Kong, a naval commander (Michael Hordern) relates a dream he had. An airplane with 8 passengers (7 men and a woman) and 3 crew members that gets lost and crashes. By coincidence, two of the men (Michael Redgrave, Alexander Knox) at the party are flying to Japan the next day. They find out they are two of eight passengers, one of who is a woman (Sheila Sim). Slowly but surely the details of the dream turn into reality. Based on the story by Sir Victor Goddard and directed by Leslie Norman. This is a first rate suspense thriller with an excellent cast of British actors and a carefully constructed screenplay by R.C. Sheriff that keeps you on the edge of your seat. Some may dismiss it as an extended TWILIGHT ZONE episode but with apologies to Rod Serling, no TZ episode was this well written and it has to sustain the suspense for over 90 minutes, not just a half hour. Malcolm Arnold (BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI) did the fine undersccore. With Denholm Elliott, Alexander Knox, Ursula Jeans, Victor Maddern, Alfie Bass and George Rose.