The Horror of Frankenstein – 1970

A Hammer Film production presented by EMI Film Productions Limited, distributed by Anglo-EMI Film Distributors Limited and released through MGM-EMI Film Distributors Limited
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MPAA Approved Certificate No. 22572
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 EMI-MGM Elstree Studios, Hertfordshire, England
Technicolor 91 mins
Storyline
Young Victor Frankenstein possesses scientific knowledge and ambitions far beyond his tender years, but his father refuses to subsidise any more of his unorthodox experiments. The solution is simple – Victor arranges for his father to be killed in a shooting ‘accident’ and inherits his fortune. Now able to do as he pleases, Frankenstein embarks on his ultimate goal – the creation of a human being. But the creature he builds turns out to be a rampaging, murderous monster!
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Crew
Function | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits |
Art Director | Scott MacGregor | 55 | 22 Oct 1914 | 1971 | 56 | 14 |
Assistant Director | Derek Whitehurst | 41 | 2 Oct 1928 | 6 Dec 2005 | 77 | 16 |
Based on the characters created by | Mary Shelley | 172 | 30 Aug 1797 | 1 Feb 1851 | 53 | 2 |
Camera Operator | Neil Binney | 38 | 1 Jun 1931 | Living | 89 | 17 |
Construction Manager | Arthur Banks | 18 | ||||
Continuity | Betty Harley | 6 | ||||
Director | Jimmy Sangster | 42 | 2 Dec 1927 | 19 Aug 2011 | 83 | 65 |
Director of Photography | Moray Grant | 52 | 13 Nov 1917 | 17 Sep 1977 | 59 | 29 |
Dubbing Mixer | Bill Rowe | 38 | 2 Feb 1931 | 29 Sep 1992 | 61 | 10 |
Editor | Chris Barnes | 32 | 1938 | 5 Jun 2009 | 71 | 21 |
Hairdressing Supervisor | Pearl Tipaldi | 24 Aug 1993 | 7 | |||
Make-up Supervisor | Tom Smith | 49 | 15 Aug 1920 | 3 Apr 2009 | 88 | 5 |
Music Composed by | Malcolm Williamson | 38 | 21 Nov 1931 | 2 Mar 2003 | 71 | 3 |
Music Supervisor | Philip Martell | 62 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 103 |
Producer | Jimmy Sangster | 42 | 2 Dec 1927 | 19 Aug 2011 | 83 | 65 |
Production Manager | Tom Sachs | 40 | 10 Apr 1929 | Living | 92 | 8 |
Recording Director | A.W. Lumkin | 56 | 2 Feb 1913 | 25 Oct 1985 | 72 | 30 |
Screenplay by | Jeremy Burnham | 41 | 28 May 1931 | Living | 92 | 6 |
Screenplay by | Jimmy Sangster | 42 | 2 Dec 1927 | 19 Aug 2011 | 83 | 65 |
Sound Editor | Terry Poulton | 40 | 1930 | 1993 | 63 | 16 |
Sound Recordist | Claude Hitchcock | 51 | 8 Nov 1918 | 4 Oct 2010 | 91 | 14 |
Wardrobe Mistress | Laura Nightingale | 35 |
Cast
Character | Actor | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Appearances |
Alys | Kate O'Mara | 30 | 10 Aug 1939 | 30 Mar 2014 | 74 | 2 |
Bailiff | James Hayter | 62 | 23 Apr 1907 | 27 Mar 1983 | 75 | 3 |
Baron | George Belbin | 49 | 16 Feb 1920 | 25 Jan 2008 | 87 | 2 |
Dean | James Cossins | 36 | 4 Dec 1933 | 12 Feb 1997 | 63 | 5 |
Elizabeth | Veronica Carlson | 25 | 18 Sep 1944 | Living | 76 | 3 |
First Bandit | Terry Duggan | 37 | 15 Apr 1932 | 1 May 2008 | 76 | 2 |
Graverobber | Dennis Price | 54 | 23 Jun 1915 | 6 Oct 1973 | 58 | 5 |
Graverobber's Wife | Joan Rice | 39 | 3 Feb 1930 | 1 Jan 1997 | 66 | 2 |
Henry | Jon Finch | 27 | 2 Mar 1942 | 28 Dec 2012 | 70 | 3 |
Instructor | Geoffrey Lumsden | 55 | 26 Dec 1914 | 4 Mar 1984 | 69 | 1 |
Little Girl | Carol Jeayes | 1 | ||||
Maggie | Glenys O'Brien | 1 | ||||
Priest | Chris Lethbridge-Baker | 42 | 1 Jul 1927 | 5 Nov 2013 | 86 | 1 |
Professor | Bernard Archard | 53 | 20 Aug 1916 | 1 May 2008 | 91 | 1 |
Schoolmaster | Neil Wilson | 53 | 24 Jun 1916 | 24 Jan 1975 | 58 | 2 |
Stephan | Stephen Turner | 1 | ||||
The Monster | David Prowse | 34 | 1 Jul 1935 | 28 Nov 2020 | 85 | 3 |
Victor Frankenstein | Ralph Bates | 29 | 12 Feb 1940 | 27 Mar 1991 | 51 | 5 |
Wilhelm | Graham James | 3 | ||||
Woodsman | Hal Jeayes | 39 | 1931 | Living | 90 | 1 |
Workman | Michael Goldie | 37 | 26 Feb 1932 | 17 Jun 2013 | 81 | 1 |
Footnotes
Dennis Price appeared in many films, including the ghost story “A Place of One’s Own” (1945), “Kind Hearts and Coronets!’ (1949), “Private’s Progress” (1956), “The Naked Truth” (1957), “I’m All Right, Jack” (1959), “The VIPs” (1963), “Jules Verne’s Rocket to the Moon” (1967), “The Haunted House of Horror” (1969) and “Theatre of Blood” (1973, with Vincent Price).
He was also in two of Terence Fisher’s films away from Hammer, “The Horror of It All” (1963) and “The Earth Dies Screaming” (1964).
His other Hammer productions were “Don’t Panic, Chaps!” (1959), “Watch it, Sailor!” (1961), “Twins of Evil” (1971) and “That’s Your Funeral” (1972). He died in 1973.
Kate O’Mara also appears in Hammer’s “The Vampire Lovers” (1970).
Jon Finch went on to take starring roles in Roman Polanski’s “Macbeth” (1971) and Alfred Hitchcock’s “Frenzy” (1972).
For Hammer, he also made “Vampire Lovers” (1970).
David Prowse also played Frankenstein’s monstrous creation in Hammer’s “Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell” (1973), but his most famous role is probably that of Darth Vader (but not the voice) in the (then) “Star Wars” trilogy. He was also the Green Cross Code Man in the television road safety campaign of the 1970s. His other appearance for Hammer was in “Vampire Circus” (1971).
Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection