rings. He receives a call from Elliot Foley, inviting him to his country home to consult on some renovations. Craig's wife suggests that spending a weekend in the country might help him get rid of his nightmares. Craig then drives up to Foley's cottage in Kent as in the start of the film. Cast Overarching story at farmhouse (Directed by Basil Dearden) Anthony Baird (credited as Antony Baird) as Hugh Grainger Roland Culver as Eliot Foley Renée Gadd as Mrs. Craig Sally Ann Howes as Sally O'Hara the teenager Mervyn Johns as Walter Craig Judy Kelly as Joyce Grainger Barbara Leake as Mrs. O'Hara Mary Merrall as Mrs. Foley Frederick Valk as Dr. van Straaten Googie Withers as Joan Cortland The Hearse Driver (Directed by Basil Dearden; based on "The Bus-Conductor" by E. F. Benson, published in The Pall Mall Magazine in 1906) Anthony Baird as Hugh Grainger Judy Kelly as Joyce Grainger Miles Malleson as the hearse driver/ bus conductor Robert Wyndham as Dr. Albury The Christmas Party (Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti; story by Angus MacPhail) Michael Allan as Jimmy Watson Sally Ann Howes as Sally O'Hara Barbara Leake as Mrs. O'Hara ? as Francis Kent the ghost 'Christmas Party' is based on the 1860 murder of Francis Saville Kent, for which his half-sister Constance Kent was convicted in 1865. The Haunted Mirror (Directed by Robert Hamer; story by John Baines) Ralph Michael as Peter Cortland Esmé Percy as Mr. Rutherford the antiques dealer Googie Withers as Joan Cortland The Golfer's Story (Directed by Charles Crichton; based on "The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost" by H. G. Wells) Peggy Bryan as Mary Lee Basil Radford as George Parratt Naunton Wayne as Larry Potter Peter Jones as Fred the barman (uncredited) Note Parratt and Potter, as portrayed by Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne in the golfing story, are derivative of the characters Charters and Caldicott from Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938). The double-act proved to be popular enough for Radford and Wayne to be paired up as similar sport-obsessed English gentlemen (or occasionally reprising their original roles) in a number of productions, including this one. The Ventriloquist's Dummy (Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti, story by John Baines) Allan Jeayes as Maurice Olcott Magda Kun as Mitzi Miles Malleson as the jailer Garry Marsh as Harry Parker Hartley Power as Sylvester Kee Michael Redgrave as Maxwell Frere Frederick Valk as Dr.