I'm recording a film on Talking Pictures this afternoon called "The Halfway House". It's a 1943 British film about a group of travellers who shelter in an old inn during a storm. The travellers have various personal problems. The innkeeper is a bit mysterious. It's a fantasy film.
It's a film of its time but I'll see what it's like. It would be wrong to compare it to Dead of Night made a couple of years later but I wonder it lead to that film.
Both films were made by Ealing Studios,
THH was directed by Basil Dearden (and Alberto Calvacanti), both of whom directed segments of DON.
Some of the contibutors to the writing worked on both films.
Mervyn Johns and Sally Anne Howes were in both films.
Glynis Johns, Mervyn's daughter, is in THH playing his daughter.