The Fatal Night is a 1948 British second feature ('B') thriller film directed by Mario Zampi and starring Lester Ferguson, Jean Short and Leslie Armstrong. It was written by Michael Arlen, Gerald Butler and Kathleen Connors based on Arlen's 1925 short story The Gentleman from America, which tells the story of an American visitor in London who makes a bet with two Englishmen to see if he can spend a night alone in a "haunted" room.