Basil Dearden's second solo feature for Ealing Studios owes a lot to 'Outward Bound' and anticipates 'The Amazing Mr Blunden'. It was the first of three fantasies the studio made just before war's end and probably the only film the studio ever made to feature a seance.
Unusual in that the spirit world manifests itself by radio, as a curtain raiser to 'Dead of Night' Mervyn Johns this time plays one of the spooks (uniquely paired with his daughter Glynis - the latter probably the only cast member still alive - as father and daughter). Also from the later film is Sally Anne Howes as an engaging scamp who doesn't cast a shadow and declares "Daddy, if I die of pneumonia I want my stamp collection to go to Mummy and Daddy".
Unusual in that the spirit world manifests itself by radio, as a curtain raiser to 'Dead of Night' Mervyn Johns this time plays one of the spooks (uniquely paired with his daughter Glynis - the latter probably the only cast member still alive - as father and daughter). Also from the later film is Sally Anne Howes as an engaging scamp who doesn't cast a shadow and declares "Daddy, if I die of pneumonia I want my stamp collection to go to Mummy and Daddy".