Matakitas is Coming

Librarians are stalked by a psychotic strangler who continues his murder spree from beyond the grave.

Trailer by The Hammer Graveyard

Production Details

Hammer Film Productions
Copyright © MCMLXVIII
Filmed at Intertel Studios by Addavision
Distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox Television
William Self – In charge

UK Transmission date 28th April 1969

Locations:

MGM Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire – Studio
Mayfair Library, 25 South Audley Street, London – Library interiors

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Cast & Crew

CREW	NAME	CREDITED	AGE AT RELEASE	BIRTH	DEATH	AGE	CREDITS	UNCREDITED	TOTAL HAMMER
Art Director	William Kellner	Yes	68	30 Jul 1900	1 May 1996	95	7		7
Assistant Art Director	George Lack	Yes	51	1918	1 Jul 2014	96	7		7
Assistant Director	Bluey Hill	Yes	57	27 Nov 1911	1 Apr 1986	74	5		5
Camera Operator	Lou Lavelly	Yes	35	11 Mar 1934	26 May 1992	58	5		5
Casting	James Liggat	Yes	49	1920	28 Sep 1981	61	29	2	31
Composer	John Patrick Scott	Yes	38	1 Nov 1930		94	3		3
Continuity	Lillian Lee	Yes					6		6
Director	Michael Lindsay-Hogg	Yes	28	5 May 1940		85	1		1
Director of Photography	Arthur Lavis B.S.C.	Yes	44	14 Jun 1924	15 Jan 1999	74	6		6
Editor	Inman Hunter	Yes	54	25 Aug 1914	1 Jul 1986	71	5		5
Executive Consultant	Jack Fleischmann	Yes					17		17
Executive Producer	Norman Lloyd	Yes	54	8 Nov 1914	11 May 2021	106	11		11
Executive Producer	Joan Harrison	Yes	61	26 Jun 1907	14 Aug 1994	87	15		15
Foucs Puller	Bob Jordan	No						29	29
Hair Stylist	Elsie Alder	Yes	63	2 Nov 1905	1979	73	8		8
Make-up	Ernest Taylor	Yes	56	31 Jan 1913	1 Apr 1987	74	8		8
Music Composer	Norman Kaye	Yes	40	5 Jan 1929	12 May 2001	72	1		1
Music Supervisor	Philip Martell	Yes	61	6 Oct 1907	11 Aug 1993	85	104	1	105
Music Title Theme	Harry Robertson	Yes	36	19 Nov 1932	17 Jan 1996	63	26		26
Post Production Consultant	Robert Mintz	Yes					17		17
Producer	Anthony Hinds	Yes	46	18 Sep 1922	30 Sep 2013	91	87	3	90
Production Manager	John Oldknow	Yes	42	5 Mar 1927	10 Apr 1989	62	16		16
Second Assistant Director	Nicholas Granby	No	23	19 Nov 1945		79		6	6
Sound Editor	Roy Baker	Yes	41	1 Jul 1927	1 Feb 2011	83	29	1	30
Sound Editor	Tony Pullen	Yes					7		7
Sound Recordist	John Streeter	Yes	44	1925	2012	87	8		8
Story Editor	John Gould	Yes	33	1936	21 Apr 1974	38	19		19
Supervising Editor	James Needs	Yes	49	17 Oct 1919	4 Feb 2003	83	113	1	114
Unit Manager	Michael Brown	Yes					7		7
Wardrobe	Klara Kerpin	Yes	59	25 Oct 1909	1982	72	7		7
Written	Robert Heverly	Yes					1		1
CAST
June	Vera Miles	Yes	39	23 Aug 1929		96	1		1
Ken	Dermot Walsh	Yes	44	10 Sep 1924	26 Jun 2002	77	1		1
Matakitas	Leon Lissek	Yes	30	19 Jan 1939	13 Jan 2022	82	2		2
Robert	John Junkin	Yes	39	29 Jan 1930	7 Mar 2006	76	2		2
Sylvia Ann	Gay Hamilton	Yes	25	29 Apr 1943		82	2		2
Tracy	Lyn Pinkney	Yes					1		1

Footnotes

Fame came to Vera Miles when she attracted the attention of two master directors, Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford. Ford cast her in the classic western The Searchers (1956), and Hitchcock, who put her under personal contract and hailed her as his “new Grace Kelly”, paired her with the great Henry Fonda in The Wrong Man (1956). He also cast her in the potentially star-making role of Judy Barton in Vertigo (1958), but Miles withdrew from the film when she became pregnant. Hitchcock later gave Miles a supporting role in another masterpiece Psycho (1960).

Leon Lissek played the Sergeant of Bailiffs in Hammer’s 1971 film Countess Dracula.

Dermot Walsh was at one time married to Hammer star Hazel Court.

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