Since his birth, 30 years ago, John Soames has been in a coma. Now he’s operated on and brought to life in a neurologic clinic. They plan to make him develop from a 30 years old baby to a man, but there’s no time for the love and care a normal baby would receive.
Production Details
An Amicus Production
Produced at Shepperton Studios
98 Mins
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Hammer Connections
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Hidden | Death | Age | Hammer Productions |
Art Direction | Don Mingaye | 41 | 31 Dec 1928 | 8 Nov 2017 | 88 | 40 | |
Camera Operator | David Harcourt | 55 | 27 Sep 1915 | 5 May 2013 | 97 | 3 | |
Continuity | Kay Rawlings | 52 | 31 Dec 1917 | 1 Jul 1981 | 63 | 3 | |
Director | Alan Cooke | 44 | 28 Mar 1926 | 8 Oct 1994 | 68 | 1 | |
Make-Up Artist | Jill Carpenter | 4 Mar 2015 | 2 | ||||
Second Assistant Director | Ariel Levy | 26 | 12 Mar 1944 | 12.03.1944 | 80 | 2 | |
Set Dresser | Andrew Low | 4 | |||||
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Hidden | Death | Age | Hammer Productions |
Jenny Bannerman | Judy Parfitt | 34 | 7 Nov 1935 | 07.11.1935 | 88 | 1 | |
Journalist | Alan Lake | 29 | 24 Nov 1940 | 10 Oct 1984 | 43 | 1 | |
Nicholls | Dan Jackson | 45 | 1 Jan 1925 | 18 Nov 2004 | 79 | 1 | |
Old Man In Car | Joe Gladwin | 64 | 21 Jan 1906 | 11 Mar 1987 | 81 | 1 | |
Sgt. Clifford | Billy Cornelius | 36 | 18 Aug 1934 | 18.08.1934 | 89 | 1 | |
Thomas Fleming | Christian Roberts | 26 | 17 Mar 1944 | 26 Dec 2022 | 78 | 1 |
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Footnotes
Alan Lake (married to Hammer actress Diana Dors) is one of the journalists in observation area, watching the of surgery on John Soames. He also appeared for Hammer in the Journey to the Unknown episode Paint Me a Murder.