Having witnessed her mother murdering her father, Janet has visions that she will also become a murderer confined to a lunatic asylum. Can her appointed guardian Henry, and his lover Grace, manipulate her to kill Henry’s wife?
Production Details
A Hammer film production released by Universal Pictures
Copyright MCMLXIII Universal Pictures Company Incorporated – All rights reserved
MPAA Approved Certificate No. 20455
The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herein are fictitious and any similarity to the name, character, or history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional
RCA Sound Recording
Hammerscope
Produced at Bray Studios, England
Black & White 83 mins
Filming Began: 19th April 1960
UK Release: 29th September 1961
Studio:
Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire
Location:
Wargrave Station, Station Road, Wargrave, Berkshire
Oakley Court Hotel, Windsor Road, Oakley Green, Windsor, Berkshire – Exterior scenes
Stills from film
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Cast & Crew
Red = Uncredited
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Hidden | Death | Age | Hammer Credited | Hammer Uncredited | Total Hammer |
Art Director | Don Mingaye | 35 | 1 Jan 1929 | 8 Nov 2017 | 88 | 26 | 14 | 40 | |
Assistant Art Director | Kenneth Ryan | 6 | 6 | ||||||
Assistant Director | Douglas Hermes | 40 | 28 Jun 1923 | 1 Jan 1981 | 57 | 6 | 6 | ||
Boom Assistant | Roy Mingaye | 33 | 1 Jan 1931 | 21 Dec 2017 | 86 | 4 | 4 | ||
Boom Operator | Jim Perry | 8 | 8 | ||||||
Camera Operator | Ronnie Maasz | 38 | 2 Feb 1926 | 19 Sep 2007 | 81 | 2 | 2 | ||
Chief Electrician | Jack Curtis | 3 | 23 | 26 | |||||
Construction Manager | Arthur Banks | 18 | 29 | 47 | |||||
Continuity | Pauline Harlow (Wise) | 26 | 01 Jan 1938 | 01.01.1938 | 86 | 11 | 3 | 14 | |
Director | Freddie Francis | 46 | 22 Dec 1917 | 17 Mar 2007 | 89 | 6 | 6 | ||
Director of Photography | John Wilcox BSc | 59 | 7 May 1905 | 31 May 1979 | 74 | 6 | 1 | 7 | |
Electrician | George Robinson | 2 | 2 | ||||||
First Assistant Editor | Chris Barnes | 26 | 1 Jan 1938 | 5 Jun 2009 | 71 | 21 | 12 | 33 | |
Focus Puller | Geoff Glover | 30 | 01 Jan 1934 | 01.01.1934 | 90 | 3 | 3 | ||
Focus Puller | Ronnie Fox-Rogers | 32 | 1 Jan 1932 | 30 Jan 2008 | 76 | 2 | 2 | ||
Grip | Albert Cowlard | 41 | 01 Jan 1923 | 10 | 10 | ||||
Hair Stylist | Frieda Steiger | 60 | 29 Dec 1903 | 19 Aug 1993 | 89 | 28 | 28 | ||
Make-up Artist | Roy Ashton | 55 | 16 Apr 1909 | 10 Jan 1995 | 85 | 36 | 4 | 40 | |
Music Composer | Don Banks | 40 | 25 Oct 1923 | 5 Sep 1980 | 56 | 9 | 9 | ||
Musical Supervisor | John Hollingsworth | 48 | 20 Mar 1916 | 29 Dec 1963 | 47 | 36 | 2 | 38 | |
Producer | Jimmy Sangster | 36 | 2 Dec 1927 | 19 Aug 2011 | 83 | 65 | 2 | 67 | |
Production Designer | Bernard Robinson | 51 | 28 Jul 1912 | 2 Mar 1970 | 57 | 46 | 3 | 49 | |
Production Manager | Don Weeks | 59 | 15 Nov 1904 | 1 Mar 1988 | 83 | 30 | 30 | ||
Production Secretary | Maureen White | 34 | 01 Jan 1930 | 01.01.1930 | 94 | 5 | 5 | ||
Property Master | Tom Money | 47 | 1 Jan 1917 | 1 Jan 1974 | 57 | 2 | 20 | 22 | |
Props Buyer | Eric Hillier | 44 | 1 Jan 1920 | 1 Jan 1975 | 55 | 16 | 16 | ||
Publicity Director | Dennison Thornton | 54 | 23 Aug 1909 | 1 Jan 1977 | 67 | 9 | 9 | ||
Second Assistant Director | Hugh Harlow | 24 | 17 Jun 1939 | 17.06.1939 | 85 | 3 | 28 | 31 | |
Second Assistant Editor | Alan Willis | 27 | 12 Jan 1937 | 25 Apr 2015 | 78 | 2 | 2 | ||
Sound Camera Operator | Alan Thorne | 7 | 7 | ||||||
Sound Camera Operator | Michael Sale | 8 | 8 | ||||||
Sound Editor | James Groom | 39 | 1 Jan 1925 | 17 May 2016 | 91 | 13 | 3 | 16 | |
Sound Recordist | Ken Rawkins | 46 | 1 Jan 1918 | 1 Jan 1971 | 53 | 18 | 18 | ||
Special Effects | Les Bowie | 50 | 10 Nov 1913 | 27 Jan 1979 | 65 | 32 | 11 | 43 | |
Still Photographer | Tom Edwards | 1999 | 26 | 26 | |||||
Supervising Editor | James Needs | 44 | 17 Oct 1919 | 4 Feb 2003 | 83 | 110 | 1 | 111 | |
Wardrobe Mistress | Rosemary Burrows | 36 | 5 | 41 | |||||
Writer | Jimmy Sangster | 36 | 2 Dec 1927 | 19 Aug 2011 | 83 | 65 | 2 | 67 | |
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Hidden | Death | Age | Hammer Credited | Hammer Uncredited | Total Hammer |
Doctor | John Welsh | 49 | 7 Nov 1914 | 21 Apr 1985 | 70 | 5 | 5 | ||
Grace Maddox | Moira Redmond | 35 | 14 Jul 1928 | 16 Mar 2006 | 77 | 1 | 1 | ||
Helen Baxter | Clytie Jessop | 35 | 1 Jan 1929 | 9 Apr 2017 | 88 | 1 | 1 | ||
Henry Baxter | David Knight | 36 | 16 Jan 1928 | 20 Dec 2020 | 92 | 1 | 1 | ||
Hotel Barman | Timothy Bateson | 38 | 3 Apr 1926 | 15 Sep 2009 | 83 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
Janet | Jennie Linden | 24 | 8 Dec 1939 | 8.12.1939 | 84 | 1 | 1 | ||
Janet as a child | Elisabeth Dear | 11 | 1 Jan 1953 | 9 Dec 2006 | 53 | 2 | 2 | ||
John | George A. Cooper | 39 | 7 Mar 1925 | 16 Nov 2018 | 93 | 3 | 3 | ||
Maid (Anne) | Julie Samuel | 20 | 15 May 1944 | 15.05.1944 | 80 | 1 | 1 | ||
Mary Lewis | Brenda Bruce | 44 | 7 Jul 1919 | 19 Feb 1996 | 76 | 1 | 1 | ||
Mother | Isla Cameron | 37 | 5 Mar 1927 | 3 Apr 1980 | 53 | 1 | 1 | ||
Mrs Gibbs | Irene Richmond | 52 | 15 Nov 1911 | 24 May 2009 | 97 | 2 | 2 | ||
Sir James Dudley | Hedger Wallace | 36 | 14 Oct 1927 | 30 Jan 2000 | 72 | 1 | 1 | ||
Waiter | Frank Forsyth | 58 | 19 Dec 1905 | 2 May 1984 | 78 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
Original Poster
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Footnotes
Released as a support to Hammer’s The Evil of Frankenstein in 1964, this film is noted for its atmospheric title sequence where the credits appear throughout a protracted stagger around a dank asylum.
George A. Cooper also appeared for Hammer as Doug Savage in Hell is a City (1960) and as the landlord in Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968). His notable TV work includes the part of Mr Griffiths – the caretaker in BBC TV’s Grange Hill (1977).
Jennie Linden starred alongside Glenda Jackson and Oliver Reed in Women in Love (1970), and as Barbara in the spin-off from the cult BBC TV series Dr Who and the Daleks (1965) starring Peter Cushing as the Doctor.
Timothy Bateson’s other Hammer appearances were as Mr Bird in The Anniversary and (uncredited) as Simpson in Yesterday’s Enemy (1959)