Love Thy Neighbour – 1973

A Hammer production released through MGM-EMI Film Distributors Limited
Copyright MCMLXXIII Hammer Film Productions Limited – All rights reserved
MPAA Approved Certificate No. 23568

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
Made at EMI/MGM Elstree Studios Boreham Wood, Hertfordshire, England
Processed at Humphries Film Laboratories 85 mins

Storyline

Eddie Booth and his coloured neighbour, Bill Reynolds, are continually sniping at each other with racist taunts, which even continue at the factory where they both work. Finally, the two fall out completely over a union matter and, with their relationship at an all-time low, their wives Joan and Barbie choose this rather inauspicious moment to enter a ‘Love thy Neighbour’ competition! Meanwhile, to make things worse, Bill’s father arrives from Trinidad and seems to get on a bit too well with Eddie’s mum…..

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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	Lionel Couch	60	20 May 1913		31 Aug 1989	76	3		3
Ast. Art Director	Don Picton	57	22 Feb 1916		Nov 1981	65	15	2	17
Ast. Director	Ken Barker	55	1 Jan 1918		13 Feb 2001	83	10		10
Camera Operator	Chic (Rodney) Anstiss	42	1 Feb 1931		30 Jun 2011	80	12		12
Casting Director	James Liggat	53	1 Jan 1920		28 Sep 1981	61	29	2	31
Construction Manager	Ken Softley	43	1930		2000	69	2		2
Continuity	Sally Ball (Jones)	28	1945		Oct 2009	64	4		4
Director	John Robins	39	1 Mar 1934	1.03.1934		89	4	1	5
Director of Photog.	Moray Grant	55	13 Nov 1917		17 Sep 1977	59	29		29
Dubbing Mixer	Dennis Whitlock	45	1928		2008	80	13	1	14
Editor	James Needs	53	17 Oct 1919		4 Feb 2003	83	110	1	111
Hairdresser	Maud Onslow						4		4
Make-up	George Blackler	61	7 Mar 1912		30 Oct 1986	74	7	1	8
Music Composer	Albert Elms	53	28 Feb 1920		16 Oct 2009	89	1		1
Musical Supervisor	Philip Martell	65	6 Oct 1907		11 Aug 1993	85	104	1	105
Producer	Roy Skeggs	39	1 Apr 1934		29 Dec 2018	84	45	1	46
Production Manager	Ron Jackson	38	1935		1993	58	34	1	35
Screenplay	Vince Powell	45	6 Aug 1928		13 Jul 2009	80	2		2
Screenplay	Harry Driver	42	13 May 1931		25 Nov 1973	42	2		2
Sound Editor	Roy Hyde	53	15 Feb 1920		28 Jun 1985	65	30	1	31
Sound Recordist	Claude Hitchcock	54	8 Nov 1918		4 Oct 2010	91	14	4	18
Wardrobe Supervisor	Laura Nightingale						35		35
Uncredited
Production Secretary	Sally Pardo	32	10 Dec 1940	10.12.1940		82		4	4

Cast


Character	Actor	Age at Release	Birth		Death	Age	Hammer Productions
	Click a link for more info						Credited	Uncredited	Total
1st Black Girl	Kubi Chaza						1		1
2nd Black Girl	Venicia Day						1		1
Airport Clerk	Berry Cornish						2		2
Airport Porter	George Tovey	59	8 Mar 1914		4 Dec 1982	68	2		2
Annie Booth	Patricia Hayes	63	22 Dec 1909		19 Sep 1998	88	2		2
Arthur	Tommy Godfrey	57	20 Jun 1916		24 Jun 1984	68	2		2
Barbie Reynolds	Nina Baden-Semper	28	1 Jan 1945	01.01.1945		78	1		1
Betty	Anna Dawson	36	27 Jul 1937	27.07.1937		86	1		1
Bill Reynolds	Rudolph Walker	33	28 Sep 1939	28.09.1939		84	2	1	3
Black Bride	Corinne Skinner	42	1 Jan 1931	01.01.1931		92	2		2
Black Groom	Dan Jackson	48	1 Jan 1925		18 Nov 2004	79	1		1
Bus Driver	Nosher Powell	45	15 Aug 1928		20 Apr 2013	84	3	5	8
Carol	Siobhan Quinlan						1		1
Carter	Arthur English	54	9 May 1919		16 Apr 1995	75	1		1
Charlie	Lincoln Webb						1		1
Clippie	Isobel Hurll						1		1
Coloured Driver	Horace James	45	1 Jan 1928		17 Jun 2000	72	2		2
Cyril	James Beck	44	21 Feb 1929		6 Aug 1973	44	1		1
Dolly	Pamela Cundell	53	15 Jan 1920		14 Feb 2015	95	2		2
Eddie Booth	Jack Smethurst	41	9 Apr 1932		16 Feb 2022	89	2		2
Indian Conductor	Norman Chappell	47	31 Dec 1925		21 Jul 1983	57	3		3
Jacko	Keith Marsh	47	1 Jan 1926		28 Jan 2013	87	3		3
Joan Booth	Kate Williams	31	12 Dec 1941	12.12.1941		81	2		2
Joe Reynolds	Charles Hyatt	42	14 Feb 1931		1 Jan 2007	75	1		1
Lil	Anne Leake	45	1 Aug 1928		19 Dec 2006	78	2		2
Man at Bus Stop	George Roderick	59	9 Oct 1913		10 Mar 1976	62	3	2	5
Mr Granger	Bill Fraser	65	5 Jun 1908		5 Sep 1987	79	4		4
Norma	Andrea Lawrence	37	20 Jun 1936	20.06.1936		87	5		5
Police Constable	Michael Sharvell-Martin	29	2 Feb 1944		28 Oct 2010	66	2		2
Postman	Bill Pertwee	47	21 Jul 1926		27 May 2013	86	2		2
Registrar	Clifford Mollison	76	30 Mar 1897		4 Jun 1986	89	3		3
Susie	Princess Tamara						1		1
Taxi Driver	Fred Griffiths	61	8 Mar 1912		27 Aug 1994	82	1		1
Terry	Melvyn Hayes	38	11 Jan 1935	11.01.1935		88	4		4
Van Driver	Patrick Durkin	37	9 Jun 1936		1 Sep 2009	73	1		1
White Bride	Lesley Goldie						1		1
White Groom	John Binden	29	4 Oct 1943		10 Oct 1993	50	1		1
Winston	Azad Ali	41	1932		Jul 1993	61	1		1
Uncredited
Woman on Bus	Damaris Hayman	44	16 Jun 1929		3 Jun 2021	91	2	1	3
Diner on Ship	Pauline Chamberlain	40	2 Oct 1932		14 Jan 2021	88		5	5
Diner on Ship	Pearl Walters							2	2
Taxi Driver	James Payne							5	5
Unneighbourly Neighbour	Fred Wood	51	26 Oct 1921		25 Jan 2003	81		19	19
Waiter on Ship	Harry Fielder	33	26 Apr 1940		6 Feb 2021	80		10	10
Worker	Reg Thomason	54	29 Nov 1918		30 Aug 2003	84		5	5

Production


FILMING BEGAN	20 January 1973
UK RELEASE	26 August 1973
STUDIO	Elstree Studios of Associated British Picture Corporation, Hertfordshire, England
LOCATION	Blackfriars Bridge, Blackfriars, London
	Borehamwood, Hertfordshire

Footnotes

Probably the less written the better about this lamentable, tasteless and insulting supposed comedy. Suffice it to say that, in all their long history, Hammer never made anything quite so embarrassingly dreadful! Incidentally, for what it’s worth, the film is a spin-off from an equally dire Thames TV sitcom.

Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection