The Night My Number Came Up is a 1955 British supernatural drama film directed by Leslie Norman and starring Michael Redgrave, Sheila Sim and Alexander Knox.

[1] The screenplay by R. C. Sherrif was based on an incident in the life of British Air Marshal Sir Victor Goddard whose journal was published in The Saturday Evening Post of 26 May 1951.

They run out of fuel and glide towards the mountains, but instead of crashing as in the dream, the pilot manages to bring the aircraft down in a controlled emergency landing.

He wrote a synopsis and sent it to Michael Balcon, who agreed to make the film – although he refused to let Leslie Norman write the script and insisted on R.C.

This makes for a certain lack of surprise in The Night My Number Came Up, particularly as the flashback construction informs us trom the first reel that the plane has crashed, anyway, and reduces the whole story to a single item of doubt.

"[7] Leslie Halliwell said: "Intriguing little melodrama which badly lacks a twist ending and foxes itself by flashback construction which leaves very little open to doubt.

"[8] In theTime Out Film Guide Trevor Johnston wrote: "Clever plot construction, a plane-load of top British thesps, and smooth handling from director Leslie Norman (Barry's dad) all give good value.