Fred, Tim and Deirdre plan a fun weekend break on the coast. What they didn’t make allowances for was the company of Deirdre’s mother who insists on coming along as her daughter’s chaperone.
Production Details
A Hammer Film Production presented by Columbia Pictures Corporation
Copyright MCMLIV by Exclusive Films Ltd.
MPAA Approved
All characters and incidents portrayed, and the names used herewith are ficticious and the similarity to any names, characters or history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional
Westrex Sound System
Made at Shepperton Studios, England
Black & White 86 mins
Filming Began: 14th November 1960
UK Release: 1st May 1961
Studio:
Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey
Locations:
Lydd Airport, Romney Marsh, Kent
Toton Marshalling Yard, Long Eaton, Derbyshire – Goods yard scene
Longmoor Military Railway, Hampshire – Chateauron sur Bois signal box scene
Stills from film
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Cast & Crew
Red = Uncredited
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
Additional Music and Orchestrations | Tony Osborne | 38 | Jun 1922 | 1 Mar 2009 | 86 | 1 | 1 | ||
Assistant Art Director | Helen Thomas | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Assistant Director | Christopher Sutton | 29 | Sep 1931 | 01.09.1931 | 93 | 7 | 7 | ||
Boom Operator | Tom Buchanan | 3 | 3 | ||||||
Camera Operator | Brian West | 32 | 27 Apr 1928 | 27.04.1928 | 96 | 8 | 1 | 9 | |
Clapper Loader | Bob Stilwell | 23 | 3 Dec 1937 | 10 May 2006 | 68 | 3 | 3 | ||
Continuity | Splinters Deason | 48 | 1913 | 11 Oct 2001 | 88 | 3 | 3 | ||
Director | John (Paddy) Carstairs | 50 | 11 May 1910 | 12 Dec 1970 | 60 | 1 | 1 | ||
Director of Photography | Ken Hodges | 38 | 25 Oct 1922 | 1993 | 70 | 3 | 3 | ||
Draughtsman | David Minty | 21 | 1940 | 2013 | 73 | 1 | 1 | ||
Editor | Tom Simpson | 6 | 6 | ||||||
Executive Producer | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/michael-carreras/# | 33 | 21 Dec 1927 | 19 Apr 1994 | 66 | 84 | 8 | 92 | |
Exterior Photography | Jack Mills | 24 Mar 2005 | 3 | 3 | |||||
First Assistant Editor | Brian Smedley-Aston | 26 | 1935 | 01.01.1935 | 89 | 1 | 1 | ||
Focus Puller | Wally Fairweather | 34 | 1927 | 01.01.1927 | 97 | 1 | 1 | ||
Hair Stylist | Bill Griffiths | 61 | 9 Oct 1899 | 5 | 5 | ||||
Location Manager | Colin Brewer | 28 | 7 May 1932 | 14 Dec 2016 | 84 | 1 | 1 | ||
Make-up Artist | Dick Bonner-Morris | 50 | 1911 | 20 Sep 1964 | 53 | 4 | 4 | ||
Producer | Ted Lloyd | 48 | 1913 | 12 Feb 1987 | 74 | 3 | 3 | ||
Production Designer | John Howell | 46 | 14 Aug 1914 | Jan 1993 | 78 | 1 | 1 | ||
Production Manager | Jacques de Lane Lea | 29 | 22 Nov 1931 | Jan 2018 | 86 | 1 | 1 | ||
Production Secretary | Jill Langley | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Publicist | Dora Dobson | 43 | 1918 | 30 Dec 2011 | 93 | 1 | 1 | ||
Scenic Artist | Ted Barnes | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Screenplay | Ted Lloyd | 48 | 1913 | 12 Feb 1987 | 74 | 3 | 3 | ||
Second Assistant Director | Ricky Coward | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Second Assistant Editor | Gillian Scott | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Sound Camera Operator | Douglas Barnett | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Sound Editor | Allan Morrison | 31 | 1930 | 14 Feb 2012 | 82 | 1 | 1 | ||
Sound Maintenance | Ernie Cousins | 39 | 23 Nov 1921 | 1985 | 63 | 1 | 1 | ||
Sound Recordist | Bill Salter | 1983 | 17 | 17 | |||||
Still Photographer | Bob Penn | 35 | 8 May 1925 | 2002 | 76 | 1 | 1 | ||
Story | Val Valentine | 66 | 14 Feb 1895 | 16 Nov 1971 | 76 | 1 | 1 | ||
Story | Ted Lloyd | 48 | 1913 | 12 Feb 1987 | 74 | 3 | 3 | ||
Supervising Editor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/james-needs/# | 41 | 17 Oct 1919 | 4 Feb 2003 | 83 | 110 | 1 | 111 | |
Theme Music Composed | Russ Conway | 35 | 2 Sep 1925 | 16 Nov 2000 | 75 | 2 | 2 | ||
Third Assistant Director | Michael Klaw | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Wardrobe | Maude Churchill | 3 | 3 | ||||||
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
Airport Commuter | Pearl Walters | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Band Leader | Geraldo | 56 | 10 Aug 1904 | 4 May 1974 | 69 | 1 | 1 | ||
Bar Patron | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/denis-shaw/# | 40 | 7 Apr 1921 | 28 Feb 1971 | 49 | 4 | 3 | 7 | |
Bon Viveur | Harold Kasket | 34 | 26 Jul 1926 | 20 Jan 2002 | 75 | 1 | 1 | ||
British Tourist | Kenneth Connor | 42 | 6 Jun 1918 | 28 Nov 1993 | 75 | 1 | 1 | ||
Cafe Patron | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/sidney-james/# | 47 | 8 May 1913 | 26 Apr 1976 | 62 | 7 | 7 | ||
Card Seller | Harold Berens | 58 | 4 Mar 1903 | 10 May 1995 | 92 | 2 | 2 | ||
Chiron | Graham Stark | 39 | 20 Jan 1922 | 29 Oct 2013 | 91 | 2 | 2 | ||
Comte de Grenoble | Alfred Marks | 40 | 28 Jan 1921 | 1 Jul 1996 | 75 | 1 | 1 | ||
Counts Butler | Keith Pyott | 59 | 9 Mar 1902 | 6 Apr 1968 | 66 | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
Counts Chauffeur | Ernst Walder | 33 | 17 Nov 1927 | 6 Sep 2021 | 93 | 1 | 1 | ||
Deidrie Proudfoot | Shirley Eaton | 24 | 12 Jan 1937 | 12.01.1937 | 87 | 2 | 2 | ||
Florence Bell | Irene Handl | 59 | 27 Dec 1901 | 29 Nov 1987 | 85 | 2 | 2 | ||
Fred Scrutton | Bob Monkhouse | 32 | 1 Jun 1928 | 29 Dec 2003 | 75 | 1 | 1 | ||
French Girl | Marie Devereux | 20 | 27 Nov 1940 | 30 Dec 2019 | 79 | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
French Pianist | Russ Conway | 35 | 2 Sep 1925 | 16 Nov 2000 | 75 | 2 | 2 | ||
French Railway Worker | John G. Heller | 32 | 19 Apr 1928 | 19 Nov 1989 | 61 | 1 | 1 | ||
French Tanker Driver | Steve Plytas | 48 | 9 Jan 1913 | 27 Dec 1994 | 81 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
French Waiter | Jacques Cey | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
Girl at Mme. Bon-Bons | Eve Eden | 21 | 1940 | 01.01.1940 | 84 | 1 | 1 | ||
Girl at Mme. Bon-Bons | Sally Douglas | 19 | 30 Nov 1941 | Sep 2001 | 59 | 1 | 1 | ||
Humper | Jim O’Brady | 53 | 13 May 1907 | 1 Jan 1991 | 83 | 18 | 18 | ||
Humper | Gordon Rollings | 34 | 17 Apr 1926 | 7 Jun 1985 | 59 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Inspector Larue | Eugene Deckers | 47 | 22 Oct 1913 | 13 Jul 1977 | 63 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Lodge Keeper | Andreas Malandrinos | 72 | 14 Nov 1888 | 11 Jul 1970 | 81 | 2 | 2 | ||
Lodgekeepers Wife | Edie Martin | 81 | 1 Jan 1880 | 21 Feb 1964 | 84 | 1 | 1 | ||
Lulabelle | Heidi Erich | 24 | 9 Dec 1936 | 9.12.1936 | 87 | 1 | 1 | ||
Mayor | Alexis Bobrinskoy | 67 | 16 Oct 1893 | 6 Feb 1971 | 77 | 1 | 1 | ||
Mme, Bon-Bon | Judith Furse | 49 | 3 Mar 1912 | 29 Aug 1974 | 62 | 2 | 2 | ||
Police Officer | Jack Silk | 38 | 10 Sep 1922 | 12 Mar 2005 | 82 | 3 | 3 | ||
Police Officer | Jeff Silk | 35 | 23 Dec 1925 | 19 Oct 1999 | 73 | 3 | 3 | ||
Postman Leon | Tutte Lemkow | 42 | 28 Aug 1918 | 10 Nov 1991 | 73 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Restaurant Patron | Bob Raymond | 57 | 21 Jan 1904 | 19 Jun 1985 | 81 | 1 | 1 | ||
Stationmaster | Sidney Tafler | 44 | 31 Jul 1916 | 8 Nov 1979 | 63 | 3 | 3 | ||
Timothy Geay | Leslie Phillips | 36 | 20 Apr 1924 | 7 Nov 2022 | 98 | 1 | 1 | ||
With | Janette Roswell | 21 | 10 May 1939 | 10.05.1939 | 85 | 1 | 1 | ||
Youth Having Hair Permed | David Gregory | 26 | 14 Mar 1935 | 30 Nov 2022 | 87 | 2 | 2 |
Original Poster
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Footnotes
This was Bob Monkhouse’s only film for Hammer. He bacame a household name as host of London Weekend TV’s Golden Shot in 1967, followed by shows such as Celebrity Squares & Family Fortunes.
Leslie Phillips, a much-loved comic actor who has specialized in playing plummy, quintessentially English stereotypes. A star of many films, he also provided the voice for The Sorting Hat in the “Harry Potter” films.
Shirley Eaton famously played the girl painted gold in the James Bond film Goldfinger (1964).
This was Sid James’ last film for Hammer, he starred in Quatermass 2 (1957), The Glass Cage (1955), The House Across the Lake (1954), The Flanagan Boy (1953) and The Lady Craved Excitement (1950).