On the day before her birthday, Professor Fuchs gives his daughter Margaret a beautiful ring adorned with a huge ruby. Margaret has been suffering nightmares in which she sees herself laying in a sarcophagus, on her severed hand the very ring she has just been given. It transpires that the ring was found in the tomb of an ancient Egyptian queen, Tera, discovered and opened at the very moment of Margaret’s birth. Now, it seems that an astral conjunction is about to occur which will herald the rebirth of the evil, long-dead Tera…..
Production Details
A Hammer production released through MGM-EMI Film Distributors Limited Copyright MCMLXXl Hammer film Productions Limited – All rights reserved
MPAA Approved Certificate No. 22850
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 “Jewel of the Seven Stars” by Bram Stoker
RCA Sound System
Made at EMI/MGM Eistree Studios, Hertfordshire, England
Technicolor 94 mins
Filming Began: 11th January 1971
UK Release: 7th November 1971
Studio:
EMI-MGM Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire
Stills from film
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Cast & Crew
Cast – Verified complete
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
Assistant Art Director | Don Picton | 55 | 22 Feb 1916 | Nov 1981 | 65 | 15 | 2 | 17 | |
Assistant Director | Derek Whitehurst | 43 | 2 Oct 1928 | 6 Dec 2005 | 77 | 16 | 16 | ||
Boom Operator | Mike Silverlock | 28 | 1943 | 1989 | 46 | 1 | 1 | ||
Camera Grip | Peter Woods | 3 | 3 | ||||||
Camera Operator | Neil Binney | 40 | Jun 1931 | 01.06.1931 | 93 | 17 | 10 | 27 | |
Clapper Loader | Roderick Barron | 26 | 16 Aug 1945 | 26 Oct 2016 | 71 | 3 | 3 | ||
Construction Manager | Bill Greene | 9 | 9 | ||||||
Continuity | Betty Harley | 6 | 6 | ||||||
Designer | Scott MacGregor | 57 | 22 Oct 1914 | 1971 | 56 | 15 | 1 | 16 | |
Director | Seth Holt | 48 | 21 Jun 1923 | 14 Feb 1971 | 47 | 3 | 3 | ||
Director | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/michael-carreras/# | 43 | 21 Dec 1927 | 19 Apr 1994 | 66 | 98 | 9 | 107 | |
Director of Photography | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/arthur-grant/# | 56 | 1915 | 1972 | 57 | 34 | 34 | ||
Draughtsman | Tony Baines | 3 | 3 | ||||||
Dubbing Mixer | Dennis Whitlock | 43 | 1928 | 2008 | 80 | 13 | 1 | 14 | |
Editor | Peter Weatherley GBFE | 41 | 1930 | Sep 2015 | 85 | 15 | 15 | ||
Electrician | Derek Suter | 27 | 4 Jun 1944 | 4.06.1944 | 80 | 3 | 3 | ||
Focus Puller | Bob Jordan | 29 | 29 | ||||||
Hairdressing Supervisor | Ivy Emmerton | 7 | 7 | ||||||
Make-up Supervisor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/eddie-knight/# | 46 | 14 Mar 1925 | 27 Aug 1996 | 71 | 31 | 31 | ||
Music Composer | Tristram Cary | 46 | 14 May 1925 | 24 Apr 2008 | 82 | 2 | 2 | ||
Musical Supervisor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/philip-martell/# | 64 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 104 | 1 | 105 | |
Painter | Michael Finlay | 23 | 23 Apr 1948 | 23.04.1948 | 76 | 1 | 20 | 21 | |
Print Boy | Jimmy Carreras | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Producer | Howard Brandy | 42 | 20 Jun 1929 | 23 Jun 2008 | 79 | 1 | 1 | ||
Production Manager | Christopher Neame | 28 | 24 Dec 1942 | 12 Jun 2011 | 15 | 9 | 24 | ||
Production Secretary | Sally Pardo | 30 | 10 Dec 1940 | 10.12.1940 | 83 | 4 | 4 | ||
Production Supervisor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/roy-skeggs/# | 37 | Apr 1934 | 29 Dec 2018 | 84 | 45 | 2 | 47 | |
Recording Director | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/aw-lumkin/# | 58 | 1 Feb 1913 | 25 Oct 1985 | 72 | 30 | 30 | ||
Scenic Artist | Bill Beavis | 57 | 9 Aug 1914 | 7 Feb 1997 | 82 | 2 | 2 | ||
Screenplay | Christopher Wicking | 28 | 10 Jan 1943 | 13 Oct 2008 | 65 | 4 | 4 | ||
Second Assistant Director | Lindsey C. Vickers | 31 | 1940 | 01.01.1940 | 84 | 7 | 7 | ||
Sound Camera Operator | Jack Harris | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Sound Editor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/roy-hyde/# | 51 | 15 Feb 1920 | 28 Jun 1985 | 65 | 30 | 1 | 31 | |
Sound Maintenance | Dan Grimmel | 56 | 25 Jun 1915 | 1985 | 69 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
Sound Recordist | Tony Dawe | 31 | 26 Sep 1940 | 26.09.1940 | 84 | 1 | 1 | ||
Sound Recordist | Claude Hitchcock | 52 | 8 Nov 1918 | 4 Oct 2010 | 91 | 14 | 4 | 18 | |
Special Effects | Michael Collins | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Stand-in: Valerie Leon | Sarah Mathieson | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Stunts | Colin Skeaping | 27 | 18 Jun 1944 | 18.06.1944 | 80 | 1 | 1 | ||
Stunts | Peter Diamond | 42 | 10 Aug 1929 | 27 Mar 2004 | 74 | 4 | 25 | 29 | |
Third Assistant Director | Michael Murray | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Unit Runner | Philip Campbell | 19 | 1952 | 01.01.1952 | 72 | 9 | 9 | ||
Wardrobe Mistress | Diane Jones | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Wardrobe Supervisor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/rosemary-burrows/# | 36 | 5 | 41 | |||||
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
Berigan | George Coulouris | 68 | 1 Oct 1903 | 25 Apr 1989 | 85 | 2 | 2 | ||
Corbeck | James Villiers | 38 | 29 Sep 1933 | 18 Jan 1998 | 64 | 3 | 3 | ||
Dandridge | Hugh Burden | 58 | 3 Apr 1913 | 17 May 1985 | 72 | 1 | 1 | ||
Dr Burgess | David Markham | 58 | 3 Apr 1913 | 15 Dec 1983 | 70 | 2 | 2 | ||
Dr Putnam | Aubrey Morris | 45 | 1 Jun 1926 | 15 Jul 2015 | 89 | 3 | 3 | ||
Fuchs | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/andrew-keir/# | 45 | 3 Apr 1926 | 5 Oct 1997 | 71 | 7 | 7 | ||
Helen | Rosalie Crutchley | 51 | 4 Jan 1920 | 28 Jul 1997 | 77 | 2 | 2 | ||
Local Man | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/harry-fielder/# | 31 | 26 Apr 1940 | 6 Feb 2021 | 80 | 10 | 10 | ||
Margaret Fuchs (Voice) | Olive Gregg | 46 | 7 Mar 1925 | 6 Nov 2003 | 78 | 2 | 2 | ||
Margaret/Tera | Valerie Leon | 27 | 12 Nov 1943 | 12.11.1943 | 81 | 1 | 1 | ||
Mrs Caporal | Joan Young | 71 | 1 Feb 1900 | 9 Oct 1984 | 84 | 1 | 1 | ||
Nurse | Angela Ginders | 24 | 1947 | 01.01.1947 | 77 | 1 | 1 | ||
Nurse | Penelope Holt | 20 | 1951 | 01.01.1951 | 73 | 1 | 1 | ||
Older Male Nurse | James Cossins | 37 | 4 Dec 1933 | 12 Feb 1997 | 63 | 5 | 5 | ||
Patient | Tex Fuller | 45 | 11 Dec 1925 | 7 Oct 2020 | 94 | 3 | 3 | ||
Priest | Abdul Kader | 20 | 1 Apr 1951 | 26 Dec 2020 | 69 | 1 | 1 | ||
Priest | Ahmed Osman | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Priest | Luis Madina | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Priest | Omar Amoodi | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Priest | Oscar Charles | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Priest | Saad Ghazi | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Priest | Soltan Lalani | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Saturnine Young Man | Jonathan Burn | 31 | 28 Nov 1939 | 28.11.1939 | 85 | 1 | 1 | ||
Tod Browning | Mark Edwards | 29 | 1942 | 01.01.1942 | 82 | 1 | 1 | ||
Veronica | Tamara Ustinov | 26 | 25 Jul 1945 | 25.07.1945 | 79 | 1 | 1 | ||
Young Male Nurse | David Jackson | 37 | 15 Jul 1934 | 25 Jul 2005 | 71 | 1 | 1 | ||
Youth in Museum | Graham James | 3 | 3 |
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Footnotes
Two tragedies occurred during the making of this film. First, after just one day’s shooting, Peter Cushing had to pull out as his wife was taken seriously ill. She died a few days later, a loss from which the actor never recovered. His role in this film was taken by Andrew Keir.
Then, secondly, a week before filming was due to end, the director, Seth Holt, died after suffering a heart attack. The film was completed by Michael Carreras.
Valerie Leon had appeared in a couple of “Carry On” films, but was most noted for her appearance in the Hai Karate after-shave advertisements.