The Beckoning Fair One

A young artist fall under the spell of a coquette – who has been dead for 25 years.

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 23rd July 1969

Locations:
MGM Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire – Studio

Stills from episode

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Cast & Crew

CREW	NAME	CREDITED	AGE AT RELEASE	BIRTH	Hidden	DEATH	AGE	CREDITS	UNCREDITED	TOTAL HAMMER
Art Director	Roy Stannard	Yes	38	1931		1 Mar 2008	77	10		10
Assistant Art Director	Graham Parker	Yes	38	1931		7 Oct 1992	61	8		8
Assistant Director	John Elton	Yes						4		4
Based on a story by	Oliver Onions	Yes	95	13 Nov 1873		9 Apr 1961	87	1		1
Casting	James Liggat	Yes	49	1920		28 Sep 1981	61	29	2	31
Continuity	Estelle Stewart	Yes						8		8
Director	Don Chaffey	Yes	51	5 Aug 1917		13 Nov 1990	73	6		6
Director of Photography	Kenneth Talbot BSc	Yes	49	17 Jan 1920		1 May 1993	73	9		9
Editor	Brian Freemantle	Yes	35	1934	01/01/1934		91	4		4
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	62	26 Jun 1907		14 Aug 1994	87	15		15
Focus Puller	Bob Jordan	No							29	29
Hair Stylist	Mibs Parker	Yes						8		8
Main Title Theme	Harry Robertson	Yes	36	19 Nov 1932		17 Jan 1996	63	26		26
Make-up	Elisabeth Blattner	Yes	54	14 Oct 1914		1986	71	3		3
Music Composer	Harry Robertson	Yes	36	19 Nov 1932		17 Jan 1996	63	26		26
Music Supervisor	Philip Martell	Yes	61	6 Oct 1907		11 Aug 1993	85	104	1	105
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
Sound Editor	Brian Hickin	Yes	30	7 Jun 1939		30 Oct 2023	84	10		10
Sound Editor	Roy Baker	Yes	42	1 Jul 1927		Feb 2011	83	29	1	30
Sound Recordist	Stan Smart	Yes						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
Teleplay	William Woods	Yes	53	1916		1998	82	1		1
Teleplay	John Gould	Yes	33	1936		21 Apr 1974	38	19		19
Unit Manager	Christopher Neame	Yes	26	24 Dec 1942		12 Jun 2011		15	9	24
Wardrobe	Mary Gibson	Yes						13		13
CAST
Crichton	Clive Francis	Yes	23	26 Jun 1946			79	1		1
Derek Wilson	John Fraser	Yes	38	18 Mar 1931		7 Nov 2020	89	1		1
Jon Holden	Robert Lansing	Yes	41	5 Jun 1928		23 Oct 1994	66	1		1
Kit Beaumont	Gabrielle Drake	Yes	25	30 Mar 1944			81	1		1
Mr. Barrett	Larry Noble	Yes	54	13 Dec 1914		9 Sep 1993	78	3		3
Mrs Barrett	Gretchen Franklyn	Yes	58	7 Jul 1911		11 Jul 2005	94	1		1
Police Constable	David Simeon	No	26	17 May 1943			82		1	1
Police Sergeant	Victor Brooks	No	50	11 Nov 1918		19 Jan 2000	81	1	2	3
With	Warwick Sims	No	24	5 Nov 1944		1 Oct 2005	60		1	1
With	Angela Vincent	No							1	1
With	Jay Bawden	No							1	1
With	Tracy Crisp	No	25	15 Apr 1944			81		1	1

Footnotes

Gabrielle Drake played Jill Hammond in BBC TV’s The Brothers

Larry Noble played a postman in Hammer’s Fruther up the Creek (1958)

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