On the run yet again, Baron Frankenstein, with his assistant Hans, returns to his castle, only to find it derelict and all his belongings confiscated by the Burgomaster. Then, by chance, a beggar girl leads him to a cave in the mountains where he finds his creature, perfectly preserved in the ice. He manages to revive it, but needs the services of hypnotist Zoltan to reactivate the brain. Unfortunately, however, the creature will now only react to Zoltan’s voice and he plans to use it for his own greedy and vengeful ends!
Production Details
A Hammer film production released by Universal Pictures
Copyright MCMLXIV Universal Pictures Company Incorporated – All rights reserved
MPAA Approved Certificate No. 20649
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
Produced at Bray Studios, England
Eastmancolor 86 mins
Filming Began: 14th October 1963
UK Release: 1st May 1964
Studio:
Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire
Stills from film
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Cast & Crew
Red = Uncredited
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
Art Director | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/don-mingaye/# | 35 | 1929 | 8 Nov 2017 | 88 | 28 | 15 | 43 | |
Assistant Director | Bill Cartlidge | 21 | 16 Jun 1942 | 3 Mar 2021 | 78 | 4 | 4 | ||
Boom Assistant | Roy Mingaye | 33 | 1931 | 21 Dec 2017 | 86 | 4 | 4 | ||
Boom Operator | Tom Buchanan | 3 | 3 | ||||||
Camera Operator | Ronnie Maasz | 38 | 2 Feb 1926 | 19 Sep 2007 | 81 | 2 | 2 | ||
Clapper Loader | Anthony B. Richmond | 21 | 7 Jul 1942 | 7.07.1942 | 82 | 4 | 4 | ||
Construction Manager | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/arthur-banks/# | 19 | 29 | 48 | |||||
Continuity | Pauline Harlow (Wise) | 26 | 1938 | 01.01.1938 | 86 | 11 | 3 | 14 | |
Director | Freddie Francis | 46 | 22 Dec 1917 | 17 Mar 2007 | 89 | 6 | 6 | ||
Director of Photography | John Wilcox BSc | 59 | 7 May 1905 | 31 May 1979 | 74 | 6 | 1 | 7 | |
Draughtsman | Fred Carter | 32 | 1932 | 01.01.1932 | 92 | 3 | 3 | ||
First Assistant Editor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/chris-barnes/# | 26 | 1938 | 5 Jun 2009 | 71 | 21 | 12 | 33 | |
Focus Puller | Geoff Glover | 30 | 1934 | 01.01.1934 | 90 | 3 | 3 | ||
Hair Stylist | Frieda Steiger | 60 | 29 Dec 1903 | 19 Aug 1993 | 89 | 28 | 28 | ||
Make-up Artist | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/roy-ashton/# | 55 | 16 Apr 1909 | 10 Jan 1995 | 85 | 36 | 4 | 40 | |
Matte Painter | Peter Melrose | 34 | 1930 | 01.01.1930 | 94 | 1 | 4 | 5 | |
Music Composer | Don Banks | 40 | 25 Oct 1923 | 5 Sep 1980 | 56 | 9 | 9 | ||
Music Supervisor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/philip-martell/# | 56 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 104 | 1 | 105 | |
Musical Director | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/john-hollingsworth/# | 48 | 20 Mar 1916 | 29 Dec 1963 | 47 | 37 | 3 | 40 | |
Producer | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/anthony-hinds/# | 41 | 18 Sep 1922 | 30 Sep 2013 | 91 | 88 | 1 | 89 | |
Production Manager | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/don-weeks/# | 59 | 15 Nov 1904 | Mar 1988 | 83 | 30 | 30 | ||
Production Secretary | Maureen White | 34 | 1930 | 01.01.1930 | 94 | 1 | 5 | 6 | |
Publicity Director | Dennison Thornton | 54 | 23 Aug 1909 | 1977 | 67 | 9 | 9 | ||
Scenic Artist | Feliks Sergejak | 58 | 25 May 1906 | 1982 | 76 | 4 | 4 | ||
Screenplay as John Elder | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/anthony-hinds/# | 41 | 18 Sep 1922 | 30 Sep 2013 | 91 | 88 | 1 | 89 | |
Second Assistant Director | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/hugh-harlow/# | 24 | 17 Jun 1939 | 17.06.1939 | 85 | 5 | 33 | 38 | |
Second Assistant Editor | George Patten | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Second Camera Operator | Ginger Gemmel | 37 | 26 Mar 1927 | 7 Apr 2011 | 84 | 1 | 1 | ||
Sound Camera Operator | Alan Thorne | 1 | 8 | 9 | |||||
Sound Editor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/roy-hyde/# | 44 | 15 Feb 1920 | 28 Jun 1985 | 65 | 30 | 1 | 31 | |
Sound Maintenance | Charles Bouvet | 57 | 27 Oct 1906 | 1978 | 71 | 8 | 8 | ||
Sound Recordist | Ken Rawkins | 46 | 1 Jan 1918 | 1971 | 53 | 18 | 18 | ||
Sound Transfer Operator | Michael Sale | 9 | 9 | ||||||
Special Effects | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/les-bowie/# | 50 | 10 Nov 1913 | 27 Jan 1979 | 65 | 30 | 13 | 43 | |
Still Photographer | Tom Edwards | 1999 | 29 | 29 | |||||
Stunts | Peter Diamond | 34 | 10 Aug 1929 | 27 Mar 2004 | 74 | 4 | 25 | 29 | |
Supervising Editor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/james-needs/# | 44 | 17 Oct 1919 | 4 Feb 2003 | 83 | 110 | 1 | 111 | |
Third Assistant Director | Stephen Victor | 3 | 3 | ||||||
Wardrobe Mistress | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/rosemary-burrows/# | 36 | 5 | 41 | |||||
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
Baron Frankenstein | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/peter-cushing/# | 51 | 26 May 1913 | 11 Aug 1994 | 81 | 24 | 1 | 25 | |
Beggar Girl | Katy Wild | 24 | 23 Apr 1940 | 23.04.1940 | 84 | 1 | 1 | ||
Body Snatcher | Tony Arpino | 54 | 27 Jul 1909 | 1973 | 63 | 1 | 1 | ||
Burgomaster | David Hutcheson | 58 | 14 Jun 1905 | 18 Feb 1976 | 70 | 1 | 1 | ||
Burgomasters Wife | Caron Gardner | 23 | 9 Jan 1941 | 9.01.1941 | 83 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
Burly Constable | Anthony Blackshaw | 34 | 23 Sep 1929 | 16 Jun 1995 | 65 | 1 | 1 | ||
Chief Of Police | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/duncan-lamont/# | 45 | 17 Jun 1918 | 19 Dec 1978 | 60 | 7 | 7 | ||
Creature | Kiwi Kingston | 50 | 1914 | 1992 | 78 | 2 | 2 | ||
Cure | Kenneth Kove | 72 | 30 Apr 1892 | Dec 1984 | 92 | 2 | 2 | ||
David Carrell | Patrick Halpin | 63 | 4 Mar 1901 | 21 May 1971 | 70 | 6 | 6 | ||
Dr Sergado - US version | Steven Geray | 59 | 10 Nov 1904 | 26 Dec 1973 | 69 | 2 | 2 | ||
Drunk | Howard Goorney | 43 | 11 May 1921 | 29 Mar 2007 | 85 | 2 | 2 | ||
Hans | Sandor Eles | 27 | 15 Jun 1936 | 4 Sep 2002 | 66 | 3 | 3 | ||
Hypnotised Man | Timothy Bateson | 38 | 3 Apr 1926 | 15 Sep 2009 | 83 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
Karlstaad Pedestrian | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/fred-wood/# | 42 | 26 Oct 1921 | 25 Jan 2003 | 81 | 19 | 19 | ||
Landlord | Alister Williamson | 45 | 17 Jun 1918 | 19 May 1999 | 80 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
Little Girl | Michelle Scott | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Manservant | Frank Forsyth | 58 | 19 Dec 1905 | 2 May 1984 | 78 | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
Priest | James Maxwell | 35 | 23 Mar 1929 | 18 Aug 1995 | 66 | 2 | 2 | ||
Rena as a child - US version | Tracy Stratford | 9 | 19 Jan 1955 | 19.01.1955 | 69 | 1 | 1 | ||
Renas father - US version | William Phipps | 42 | 4 Feb 1922 | 1 Jun 2018 | 96 | 1 | 1 | ||
Renas mother - US version | Maria Palmer | 46 | 5 Sep 1917 | 6 Sep 1981 | 64 | 1 | 1 | ||
Roustabout | Derek Martin | 31 | 11 Apr 1933 | 11.04.1933 | 91 | 1 | 1 | ||
Roustabout | Robert Flynn | 27 | 30 Dec 1936 | 10 Nov 2005 | 68 | 1 | 1 | ||
Roustabout | Anthony Poole | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Roustabout | James Garfield | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Villager | Jim O’Brady | 57 | 13 May 1907 | 1 Jan 1991 | 83 | 18 | 18 | ||
Villager | Steven Geray | 59 | 10 Nov 1904 | 26 Dec 1973 | 69 | 2 | 2 | ||
Young Constable | David Conville | 34 | 4 Jun 1929 | 24 Nov 2018 | 89 | 2 | 2 | ||
Zoltan | Peter Woodthorpe | 32 | 25 Sep 1931 | 12 Aug 2004 | 72 | 2 | 2 |
Original Poster
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Footnotes
Freddie Francis’s other films as director for Hammer are Paranoiac (1963), Nightmare (1963), Hysteria (1964) and Dracula has Risen from the Grave“(1968). For Hammer rivals Amicus, he directed Dr Terror’s House of Horrors (1965), The Skull (1965), The Psychopath (1966), The Deadly Bees (1966), Torture Garden (1967), They Came from beyond Space (1967) and Tales from the Crypt (1972).
For his son Kevin’s Tyburn Films, he directed The Ghoul (1974) and Legend of the Werewolf (1975).
His other credits as director include Trog (1970), The Creeping Flesh and “Tales that Witness Madness (both 1973). He also worked for Hammer as director of photography on Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960)
Sandor Eles also appeared in Hammer’s Countess Dracula (1970).
New Zealander wrestler Kiwi Kingston can be seen without his monster make-up in a fleeting role in Hammer’s Hysteria (1964).
Philip Martell takes over the musical reins following the death of John Hollingsworth, remaining as Hammer’s chief Musical Director right up until their last film of the original era The Lady Vanishes (1979).