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Once Upon a Dream (1947)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1947
Running Times: 87 mins
Format: black and white     35mm
Ratio: 1.37:1
Sound: mono

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Rank Film Organization / Triton Productions
Producer: Antony Darnborough

SCRIPT
Script: Victor Katona, Patrick Kirwan
Story: Val Guest

DIRECTION
Director: Ralph Thomas

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Jack E. Cox

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Jean Barker

MUSIC
Music: Manning Sherwin, Arthur Wilkinson

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Costume Designer: Julie Harris

CAST
Cecil Bevan (Wright)
Dora Bryan (barmaid)
Wilfrid Caithness
Maurice Denham (vicar)
Arthur Denton (janitor)
Hubert Gregg (Captain Williams)
David Horne (registrar)
Griffith Jones (Jackson)
Agnes Lauchlan (Aunt Agnes)
Raymond Lovell (Mr Trout)
Betty Lynne (Mlle. Louise)
Gibb McLaughlin (Pontefact)
Eric Messiter
Guy Middleton (Major Gilbert)
Geoffrey Morris (registrar's clerk)
Nora Nicholson (1st WVS)
Hal Osmond (bailiff)
Mona Washbourne (vicar's wife)
Googie Withers (Carol Gilbert)
Mirren Wood (conductress)

PLOT SUMMARY

A young woman who is missing her husband, currently away on military service, meets one of his friends and develops a crush on him. She has a dream about him and then finds it's almost impossible to differentiate fact from fantasy.

AVAILABILITY

UK
Theatrical Distributor: Eagle-Lion Distributors Limited

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

Finland
Rating: S

TIMELINE

1949
December

9: Austria – theatrical release

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Wenn Frauen träumen – Austrian / German title

KEYWORDS

dreams


Last Updated: 15 October, 2008

 


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