Having witnessed her mother murdering her father, Janet has visions that she will also become a murderer confined to a lunatic asylum. Can her appointed guardian Henry, and his lover Grace, manipulate her to kill Henry’s wife?
Production Details
A Hammer film production released by Universal Pictures
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MPAA Approved Certificate No. 20455
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
RCA Sound Recording
Hammerscope
Produced at Bray Studios, England
Black & White 83 mins
Filming Began: 19th April 1960
UK Release: 29th September 1961
Studio:
Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire
Location:
Wargrave Station, Station Road, Wargrave, Berkshire
Oakley Court Hotel, Windsor Road, Oakley Green, Windsor, Berkshire – Exterior scenes
Stills from film
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Original Poster
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Footnotes
Released as a support to Hammer’s The Evil of Frankenstein in 1964, this film is noted for its atmospheric title sequence where the credits appear throughout a protracted stagger around a dank asylum.
George A. Cooper also appeared for Hammer as Doug Savage in Hell is a City (1960) and as the landlord in Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968). His notable TV work includes the part of Mr Griffiths – the caretaker in BBC TV’s Grange Hill (1977).
Jennie Linden starred alongside Glenda Jackson and Oliver Reed in Women in Love (1970), and as Barbara in the spin-off from the cult BBC TV series Dr Who and the Daleks (1965) starring Peter Cushing as the Doctor.
Timothy Bateson’s other Hammer appearances were as Mr Bird in The Anniversary and (uncredited) as Simpson in Yesterday’s Enemy (1959)