Straight on Till Morning – 1972
A Hammer production released through MGM-EMI Film Distributors Limited Copyright MCMLXXII Hammer Film Productions Limited – All rights reserved MPAA
Approved Certificate No. 23532
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 System
Made at Elstree Studios Hertfordshire, England
Technicolor 96 mins
Storyline
Brenda Thompson is a naive, almost childlike, young Liverpudlian girl, who lives in a dream world in which she is a fantasy princess. Desperate to have a baby, she leaves her home in Liverpool and heads for the bright lights of London in search of a potential father. There, she meets an attractive young man, Peter, who seems to be everything she is hoping for. But all is not as it appears, for he is in reality a dangerous, psychopathic murderer!
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Crew
| Function | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
| Click a link for more info | Credited | Uncredited | Total | ||||||
| Art Director | Scott MacGregor | 57 | 22 Oct 1914 | 1971 | 56 | 14 | 1 | 15 | |
| Ast. Art Director | Richard Rambaut | 34 | 5 May 1938 | Nov 1974 | 36 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Ast. Director | Clive Reed | 40 | 1 Jan 1932 | 91 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Camera Operator | Keith Jones | 10 May 2010 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Camera Operator | Roy Ford | 37 | 1 Jan 1935 | 10 Dec 2008 | 73 | 5 | 5 | ||
| Casting Director | James Liggat | 52 | 1 Jan 1920 | 28 Sep 1981 | 61 | 29 | 2 | 31 | |
| Construction Manager | Bill Greene | 9 | 9 | ||||||
| Continuity | Betty Harley | 6 | 6 | ||||||
| Director | Peter Collinson | 36 | 1 Apr 1936 | 16 Dec 1980 | 44 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Director of Photog. | Brian Probyn BSc | 51 | 30 Nov 1920 | 25 Nov 1982 | 61 | 6 | 6 | ||
| Dubbing Recordist | Dennis Whitlock | 44 | 1928 | 2008 | 80 | 13 | 1 | 14 | |
| Editor | Alan Pattillo | 42 | 26 Jul 1929 | 16 Jan 2020 | 90 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Hairdressing | Pearl Tipaldi | 24 Aug 1993 | 7 | 7 | |||||
| Lyrics | John Peacock | 27 | 1 Jan 1945 | 1 Jun 2017 | 72 | 13 | 13 | ||
| Make-up | George Blackler | 60 | 7 Mar 1912 | 30 Oct 1986 | 74 | 7 | 1 | 8 | |
| Music Composer | Roland Shaw | 52 | 26 May 1920 | 11 May 2012 | 91 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Musical Supervisor | Philip Martell | 64 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 104 | 1 | 105 | |
| Original Screenplay | John Peacock | 27 | 1945 | 1 Jun 2017 | 72 | 13 | 13 | ||
| Producer | Michael Carreras | 44 | 21 Dec 1927 | 19 Apr 1994 | 66 | 82 | 3 | 85 | |
| Production Manager | Tom Sachs | 43 | 10 Apr 1929 | 94 | 8 | 1 | 9 | ||
| Production Supervisor | Roy Skeggs | 38 | 1 Apr 1934 | 29 Dec 2018 | 84 | 45 | 1 | 46 | |
| Recording Director | A.W. Lumkin | 59 | 1 Feb 1913 | 25 Oct 1985 | 72 | 30 | 30 | ||
| Song | Annie Ross | 41 | 25 Jul 1930 | 21 Jul 2020 | 89 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Sound Editor | Alan Bell | 41 | 27 May 1931 | 5 Aug 2006 | 75 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Sound Recordist | John Purchese | 47 | 21 Feb 1925 | 21 Dec 2008 | 83 | 4 | 4 | ||
| Wardrobe Supervisor | Laura Nightingale | 35 | 35 | ||||||
| Uncredited | |||||||||
| Draughtsman | Keith Pain | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Focus Puller | Keith Blake | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Presenter | Nat Cohen | 67 | 1905 | 10 Feb 1988 | 83 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Third Ast. Director | Michael Murray | 2 | 2 |
Cast
| Character | Actor | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
| Click a link for more info | Credited | Uncredited | Total | ||||||
| Brenda Thompson | Rita Tushingham | 30 | 14 Mar 1942 | 80 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Caroline | Katya Wyeth | 24 | 1 Jan 1948 | 74 | 3 | 3 | |||
| Customer | Lola Willard | 60 | 3 Jan 1912 | 6 May 1997 | 85 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Indian Princess | Mavis Villiers | 62 | 10 Dec 1909 | 23 Feb 1976 | 66 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Jimmy Lindsay | Tom Bell | 38 | 2 Aug 1933 | 4 Oct 2006 | 73 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Joey | James Bolam | 37 | 16 Jun 1935 | 87 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Liza | Annie Ross | 41 | 25 Jul 1930 | 21 Jul 2020 | 89 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Margo | Clare Kelly | 50 | 25 Feb 1922 | 18 Feb 2001 | 78 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Mr Godfrey | Tommy Godfrey | 56 | 20 Jun 1916 | 24 Jun 1984 | 68 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Mr Harris | Harold Berens | 69 | 4 Mar 1903 | 10 May 1995 | 92 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Newsagent | John Clive | 39 | 6 Jan 1933 | 14 Oct 2012 | 79 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Peter | Shane Briant | 25 | 17 Aug 1946 | 27 May 2021 | 74 | 4 | 4 | ||
| Uncredited | |||||||||
| Man on Park Bench | Guy Standeven | Oct 1998 | 7 | 7 | |||||
| Mr Harris's Client | Mike Mungarvan | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Uneasy Man | Paul Brooke | 27 | 22 Nov 1944 | 77 | 1 | 1 |
Production
| FILMING BEGAN | 17 December 1971 | |
| UK RELEASE | 9 July 1972 | |
| STUDIO | Elstree Studios of Associated British Picture Corporation, Hertfordshire, England | |
| LOCATION | South Bank Centre, South Bank, Lambeth, London, England | |
| Aldenham Country Park, Hertfordshire, England | ||
| 214 Earl's Court Road, Kensington, London, England | Newsagents shop |
Footnotes
Rita Tushingham had made a name for herself in the sixties with films like “A Taste of Honey” (1961), “The Knack…and how to get it” (1965) and “Smashing Time” (1967).
James Bolam was well-known to TV audiences as one of the BBC’s “The Likely Lads”. His many other appearances include BBC TV’s “When the Boat Comes in”.
In 1971, Peter Collinson had directed the hysterical psychological thriller “Fright”, which was produced by Harry Fine and Michael Style, the men behind Hammer’s “Karnstein” vampire trilogy.
Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection