Pat Carroll gets more than she has bargained for when she pays a visit on Mrs Trefoil, the mother of her recently dead fiancé. For the old woman is a religious fanatic, who considers Pat to be married to her son in the eyes of God. When Pat, not surprisingly, does not agree with this point of view, she finds herself a prisoner of the increasingly demented Mrs Trefoil, who is determined that she will either mend her ways or die!
Production Details
A Hammer Film production released by Columbia Pictures
Copyright MCMLXV Hammer Film Productions Ltd. – All rights reserved
MPAA Approved Certificate
The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herein are fictitious and any similarity to the name, character, or history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional
Based on the novel by Anne Blaisdell
RCA Sound Recording
Produced at Associated British Studios, Elstree, England
Technicoior 96 mins
Filming Began: 7th September 1964
UK Release: 21st March 1965
Studio:
Elstree Studios of Associated British Picture Corporation, Hertfordshire
Location:
Letchmore Heath, Hertfordshire
Stills from film
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Cast & Crew
Red = Uncredited
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
Assistant Director | Claude Watson | 41 | 25 Aug 1923 | 31 Dec 1968 | 45 | 1 | 1 | ||
Camera Operator | Paul Wilson | 40 | 15 Mar 1925 | 6 Jun 2014 | 89 | 1 | 1 | ||
Continuity | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/renee-glynne/# | 38 | 3 Aug 1926 | 6 Apr 2022 | 95 | 40 | 3 | 43 | |
Director | Silvio Narizzano | 38 | 8 Feb 1927 | 26 Jul 2011 | 84 | 1 | 1 | ||
Director of Photography | Arthur Ibbetson BSc | 42 | 8 Sep 1922 | 19 Oct 1997 | 75 | 1 | 1 | ||
Editor | John Dunsford | 38 | 11 Oct 1926 | 1995 | 68 | 5 | 5 | ||
Hair Stylist | Olga Angelinetta | 62 | 27 Mar 1902 | 18.01.1995 | 88 | 3 | 3 | ||
Make-up | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/roy-ashton/# | 55 | 16 Apr 1909 | 10 Jan 1995 | 85 | 36 | 4 | 40 | |
Make-up | Richard Mills | 3 | 4 | 7 | |||||
Music Composer | Wilfred Josephs | 37 | 24 Jul 1927 | 17 Nov 1997 | 70 | 3 | 3 | ||
Musical Supervisor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/philip-martell/# | 57 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 104 | 1 | 105 | |
Producer | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/anthony-hinds/# | 42 | 18 Sep 1922 | 30 Sep 2013 | 91 | 88 | 1 | 89 | |
Production Designer | Peter Proud | 51 | 6 May 1913 | Mar 1989 | 75 | 1 | 1 | ||
Production Manager | George Fowler | 52 | 21 Dec 1912 | 29 Nov 1993 | 80 | 4 | 4 | ||
Screenplay | Richard Matheson | 39 | 20 Feb 1926 | 23 Jun 2013 | 87 | 3 | 3 | ||
Second Assistant Director | Stuart Black | 41 | 10 Oct 1923 | 10.10.1923 | 100 | 1 | 1 | ||
Second Assistant Director | Peter Beale | 21 | 22 Sep 1943 | 22.09.1943 | 81 | 1 | 1 | ||
Sound Editor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/roy-hyde/# | 45 | 15 Feb 1920 | 28 Jun 1985 | 65 | 30 | 1 | 31 | |
Sound Recordist | Ken Rawkins | 47 | 1 Jan 1918 | 1971 | 53 | 18 | 18 | ||
Still Photographer | Tom Edwards | 1999 | 29 | 29 | |||||
Supervising Editor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/james-needs/# | 45 | 17 Oct 1919 | 4 Feb 2003 | 83 | 110 | 1 | 111 | |
Third Assistant Director | Nigel Wooll | 23 | 23 Oct 1941 | 23.10.1941 | 82 | 2 | 2 | ||
Wardrobe Mistress | Mary Gibson | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
Alan Glendower | Maurice Kaufmann | 37 | 29 Jun 1927 | 21 Sep 1997 | 70 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
Anna | Yootha Joyce | 37 | 20 Aug 1927 | 24 Aug 1980 | 53 | 3 | 3 | ||
Gloria | Gwendolyn Watts | 27 | 23 Sep 1937 | 5 Feb 2000 | 62 | 1 | 1 | ||
Harry | Peter Vaughan | 41 | 4 Apr 1923 | 6 Dec 2016 | 93 | 2 | 2 | ||
Joseph | Donald Sutherland | 29 | 17 Jul 1935 | 20 Jun 2024 | 88 | 1 | 1 | ||
Mrs Trefoil | Tallulah Bankhead | 63 | 31 Jan 1902 | 12 Dec 1968 | 66 | 1 | 1 | ||
Ormsby | Robert Dorning | 51 | 13 May 1913 | 20 Feb 1989 | 75 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
Oscar | Philip Gilbert | 34 | 29 Mar 1930 | 6 Jan 2004 | 73 | 1 | 1 | ||
Pat Carroll | Stefanie Powers | 22 | 2 Nov 1942 | 02.11.1942 | 81 | 3 | 3 | ||
Rector | Henry McGee | 36 | 14 May 1928 | 28 Jan 2006 | 77 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Shopkeeper | Winifred Dennis | 61 | 21 Sep 1903 | 17 Nov 1971 | 68 | 1 | 1 | ||
Woman Shopper | Diana King | 46 | 2 Aug 1918 | 31 Jul 1986 | 67 | 2 | 2 |
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Footnotes
Tallulah Bankhead was another of those ageing actresses, like Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, who took to making horror films at this time. In the thirties and forties, she was a big star of stage and screen and her films include Alfred Hitchcock’s Lifeboat (1943). She was a notorious character who shocked society with her outrageous sex, drugs and alcohol lifestyle. She died in 1968.
This is the last film which bills Anthony Hinds as Producer, although he continued as a writer under his pen-name John Elder.
Stefanie Powers also starred in Hammer’s Crescendo (1969).
Canadian star Donald Sutherland’s early screen career included other horror films, such as Castle of the Living Dead (1964) and Amicus’s Dr Terror’s House of Horrors (1965).
Yootha Joyce will always be remembered as the sex-starved Mildred in Thames TV’s sitcom Man about the House (and the 1974 Hammer film spin-off) and George and Mildred.
Richard Matheson also wrote the screenplay for Hammer’s The Devil Rides Out (1968), as well as those for Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe adaptations The Fall of the House of Usher (1960), Pit and the Pendulum (1961), Tales of Terror (1962) and The Raven (1963). His other work includes Jacques Tourneur’s The Comedy of Terrors (1963, with Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre and Basil Rathbone) and Steven Spielberg’s Duel (1972).