I love this film, but I hadn't seen it in years, until I just saw it on TCM. Perhaps my memory is faulty, but I thought that in the very beginning, Walter Craig awoke from a nightmare. But, in the TCM version, the film starts with him driving down the road to Pilgrim House. We don't see him awake from the nightmare until the end. So, am I wrong, or did the original version of the film begin with him awaking from the nightmare, before he was driving down the road?
shareThe film is on you tube and you can watch it in segments. I have just looked at the opening credits, and it goes straight to the drive up to the house. As far as I am aware, this is where the film starts.
Have a look, see what you think. It's listed under dead of night 1945
IIRC The movie starts -and ends- with the same scene of Craig driving up to the house and meeting the owner just outside.
The wake-up scene only happens once just before he repeats the drive to the country.
I have a vcr tape of this and the waking from the dream is near the end. However as another reviewer wrote here, his waking up may also have been part of his dream.
shareThe film starts with him driving up the road. The sequence is later repeated at the end of the film, with him waking from the dream/nightmare.
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