Bill and Robin, helped by their childhood friend, Lena, develop a “reproducer” which can exactly duplicate any object. Bill, crushed when Lena marries Robin, convinces her to allow him to duplicate her, so that he may have a copy of her for himself. The experiment, at first deemed a success, seems to have worked only too well as the duplicate, Helen, is such an exact copy that she also loves Robin, not Bill. Bill hopes to rectify the situation with another radical experiment.
Production Details
Exclusive Films presentation
Copyright 1952 by Exclusive Films Ltd.
Based on the novel by William Temple
All characters in this photoplay are fictitious and bear no resemblance to any real person, living or dead
RCA Sound System
Royal Philarmonic Orchestra
Produced at Exclusive Studios, Bray
Black & White 81 minutes
Filming Began: 1st August 1952
UK Release: 25th May 1953
Studio:
Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire
Locations:
Lulworth Cove, Weymouth, Dorset
St. Michale’s Church, Bray, Berkshire – Church exteriors
Stills from film
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Cast & Crew
Cast – Complete, awaiting verification
Red = Uncredited
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
Adapted by | Paul Tabori | 45 | 8 May 1908 | 9 Nov 1974 | 66 | 7 | 1 | 8 | |
Art Director | J. Elder Wills | 53 | 26 Apr 1900 | 1970 | 69 | 22 | 22 | ||
Assistant Director | Bill Shore | 5 | 2 | 7 | |||||
Boom Operator | Percy Britten | 33 | 1 Oct 1919 | 1996 | 76 | 23 | 23 | ||
Camera Operator | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/len-harris/# | 37 | 19 May 1916 | 21 Feb 1995 | 78 | 63 | 2 | 65 | |
Clapper Loader | Tom Friswell | 23 | 1930 | 2002 | 72 | 18 | 18 | ||
Conductor | Muir Mathieson | 42 | 24 Jan 1911 | 2 Aug 1975 | 64 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
Continuity | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/renee-glynne/# | 26 | 3 Aug 1926 | 6 Apr 2022 | 95 | 41 | 3 | 44 | |
Dialogue Director | Nora Roberts | 1 Mar 1968 | 5 | 5 | |||||
Director | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/terence-fisher/# | 49 | 23 Feb 1904 | 18 Jun 1980 | 76 | 31 | 31 | ||
Director of Photography | Reginald Wyer BSc | 51 | 30 Oct 1901 | 1970 | 68 | 5 | 5 | ||
Editor | Maurice Rootes | 36 | 12 Apr 1917 | 17 Jun 1997 | 80 | 8 | 8 | ||
First Assistant Editor | Bill Lenny | 25 | 1928 | 2002 | 74 | 14 | 4 | 18 | |
Focus Puller | Manny Yospa | 35 | 20 Jan 1918 | 21 Apr 2002 | 84 | 4 | 4 | ||
Hair Stylist | Nina Broe | 1993 | 11 | 11 | |||||
Make-up | Dick Bonner-Morris | 42 | 1911 | 20 Sep 1964 | 53 | 4 | 4 | ||
Model Gowns | Jane Ironside | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Music Composer | Malcolm Arnold | 31 | 21 Oct 1921 | 23 Sep 2006 | 84 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
Producer | Alexander Paal | 43 | 18 May 1910 | 8 Nov 1972 | 62 | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
Producer | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/michael-carreras/# | 25 | 21 Dec 1927 | 19 Apr 1994 | 66 | 98 | 9 | 107 | |
Production Manager | Victor Wark | 40 | 1 Apr 1913 | 4 Jan 1993 | 79 | 3 | 3 | ||
Screenplay | Paul Tabori | 45 | 8 May 1908 | 9 Nov 1974 | 66 | 7 | 1 | 8 | |
Screenplay | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/terence-fisher/# | 49 | 23 Feb 1904 | 18 Jun 1980 | 76 | 31 | 31 | ||
Second Assistant Director | Aida Young | 32 | 11 Aug 1920 | 12 Aug 2007 | 87 | 8 | 6 | 14 | |
Sound Camera Operator | Peter Matthews | 3 | 3 | ||||||
Sound Recordist | Bill Salter | 1983 | 17 | 17 | |||||
Still Photographer | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/john-jay/# | 32 | 14 Nov 1920 | 29 Apr 2005 | 84 | 13 | 22 | 35 | |
Third Assistant Director | Vernon Nolf | 32 | 12 Sep 1920 | 30 Apr 2009 | 88 | 3 | 3 | ||
Wedding scene dressed | Youngs Dress Hire | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
Bill | Stephen Murray | 40 | 6 Sep 1912 | 31 Mar 1983 | 70 | 1 | 1 | ||
Bill as a Child | Glyn Dearman | 13 | 30 Dec 1939 | 30 Nov 1997 | 57 | 1 | 1 | ||
Dr. Harvey | James Hayter | 46 | 23 Apr 1907 | 27 Mar 1983 | 75 | 3 | 3 | ||
Lady Grant | Edith Saville | 59 | 6 May 1894 | 16 Feb 1987 | 92 | 1 | 1 | ||
Lena as a Child | Jennifer Dearman | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Lena/Helen | Barbara Payton | 25 | 16 Nov 1927 | 8 May 1967 | 39 | 2 | 2 | ||
Lord Grant | Kynaston Reeves | 59 | 29 May 1893 | 5 Dec 1971 | 78 | 2 | 2 | ||
Robin | John Van Eyssen | 31 | 19 Mar 1922 | 13 Nov 1995 | 73 | 5 | 5 | ||
Robin as a Child | Sean Barrett | 13 | 4 May 1940 | 04.05.1940 | 84 | 1 | 1 | ||
Sir Walter | Percy Marmont | 69 | 25 Nov 1883 | 3 Mar 1977 | 93 | 2 | 2 | ||
Solicitor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/john-stuart/# | 54 | 18 Jul 1898 | 17 Oct 1979 | 81 | 8 | 1 | 9 |
Original Poster
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Footnotes
The film dealt with the moral and scientific themes (not to mention “mad lab” scenes) that were soon to put Hammer Films on the map with the same director’s The Curse of Frankenstein (1957).
Four Sided Triangle has most in common with Fisher’s Frankenstein Created Woman (1967).
James Hayter (Dr. Harvey) and Stephen Murray (Bill) died only four days apart: on March 27, 1983 and March 31, 1983 respectively.