Amicus Films

Asylum – 1972

An Amicus Production
Produced at Shepperton Studios
88 Mins

Storyline

A young psychiatrist interviews four inmates in a mental asylum to satisfy a requirement for employment. He hears stories about the revenge of a murdered wife, a tailor who makes a suit with some highly unusual qualities, a woman who questions her sanity when it appears that her brother is conspiring against her, and a man who builds tiny toy robots with lifelike human heads.

Hammer Connections – 14


Role	Credited	Age at Release	Birth		Death	Age	Amicus Credits	Hammer Credits
CREW - 8
Camera Operator	Neil Binney	41	1 Jun 1931	1.06.1931		91	1	17
Chief Make-up Artist	Roy Ashton	63	16 Apr 1909		10 Jan 1995	85	4	36
Conductor	Douglas Gamley	47	24 Sep 1924		5 Feb 1998	73	16	3
Continuity	Pamela Davies				5 Jan 1986		5	1
Director	Roy Ward Baker	55	19 Dec 1916		5 Oct 2010	93	3	8
Dubbing Mixer	Bob Jones						2	2
Music	Douglas Gamley	47	24 Sep 1924		5 Feb 1998	73	16	3
Writer	Robert Bloch	55	5 Apr 1917		23 Sep 1994	77	5	2
CAST - 6
Asylum gatekeeper	Frank Forsyth	66	19 Dec 1905		2 May 1984	78	10	3
Dr Byron	Herbert Lom	55	11 Sep 1917		27 Sep 2012	95	2	3
Dr Lionel Rutherford	Patrick Magee	50	31 Mar 1922		14 Aug 1982	60	4	1
George	James Villiers	39	29 Sep 1933		18 Jan 1998	64	1	3
Max Reynolds	Geoffrey Bayldon	48	7 Jan 1924		10 May 2017	93	3	3
Mr Smith	Peter Cushing	59	26 May 1913		11 Aug 1994	81	15	24

Footnotes

Hammer’s stalwart director of photography, Arthur Grant, was booked for the film but three weeks before shooting discovered he was terminally ill and had to reluctantly drop out. Denys N. Coop stepped in at short notice.

Original Film Poster
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Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection