Amicus Films
The Terrornauts – 1967

An Amicus Production
Produced at Twickenham Studios
77 Mins
Storyline
Residents of a radio telescope laboratory are kidnapped when they answer a mysterious signal from outer space. They are taken to a spacecraft inhabited only by robots, where they are presented with a series of intelligence tests. They subsequently attempt to find out why they’ve been kidnapped, and how they will get back to earth.



Hammer Connections – 15
Role | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Amicus Credits | Hammer Credits | |
CREW - 10 | ||||||||
Art Direction | Scott Slimon | 51 | 8 Aug 1915 | 1980 | 65 | 7 | 1 | |
Camera Operator | Len Harris | 50 | 19 May 1916 | 21 Feb 1995 | 78 | 1 | 52 | |
Cinematography | Geoffrey Faithfull | 63 | 29 Dec 1903 | 19 Aug 1993 | 89 | 1 | 1 | |
Conductor | Philip Martell | 59 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 9 | 103 | |
Continuity | Phyllis Townshend | 4 | 1 | |||||
Director | Montgomery Tully | 62 | 6 May 1904 | 10 Oct 1988 | 84 | 2 | 4 | |
Film Editing | Peter Musgrave | 1931 | 1 May 2018 | 87 | 2 | 1 | ||
Music | Elisabeth Lutyens | 60 | 9 Jul 1906 | 14 Apr 1983 | 76 | 4 | 1 | |
Sound Recordist | Andrew Low | 5 | 4 | |||||
Special Effects | Les Bowie | 53 | 10 Nov 1913 | 27 Jan 1979 | 65 | 2 | 32 | |
CAST - 5 | ||||||||
Ben Keller | Stanley Meadows | 35 | 14 Jul 1931 | 91 | 1 | 1 | ||
Joshua Yellowlees | Charles Hawtrey | 52 | 30 Nov 1914 | 27 Oct 1988 | 73 | 1 | 1 | |
Mrs. Jones | Patricia Hayes | 57 | 22 Dec 1909 | 19 Sep 1998 | 88 | 1 | 2 | |
Sandy Lund | Zena Marshall | 42 | 1 Jan 1925 | 10 Jul 2009 | 84 | 1 | 1 | |
Uncle | Frank Forsyth | 61 | 19 Dec 1905 | 2 May 1984 | 78 | 10 | 3 |
Footnotes
This was Hammer cameraman Len Harris’s only film for Amicus.
Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection