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 Credits |
Art Director | Lionel Couch | 59 | 20 May 1913 | 31 Aug 1989 | 76 | 3 |
Assistant Art Director | Don Picton | 56 | 22 Feb 1916 | 1 Nov 1981 | 65 | 15 |
Assistant Director | Ken Barker (2) | 55 | 1918 | 13 Feb 2001 | 83 | 10 |
Camera Operator | Chic (Rodney) Anstiss | 41 | 1 Feb 1931 | 30 Jun 2011 | 80 | 12 |
Casting Director | James Liggat | 53 | 1920 | 28 Sep 1981 | 61 | 29 |
Construction Manager | Ken Softley | 43 | 1930 | 2000 | 70 | 2 |
Continuity | Sally Ball | 28 | 1945 | 1 Oct 2009 | 64 | 4 |
Directed by | John Robins | 4 | ||||
Director of Photography | Moray Grant | 55 | 13 Nov 1917 | 17 Sep 1977 | 59 | 29 |
Dubbing Mixer | Dennis Whitlock | 45 | 1928 | 2008 | 80 | 13 |
Editor | James Needs | 53 | 17 Oct 1919 | 2003 | 83 | 110 |
Hairdresser | Maud Onslow | 4 | ||||
Make-up | George Blackler | 60 | 7 Mar 1912 | 1 Oct 1986 | 74 | 7 |
Music Composed by | Albert Elms | 52 | 28 Feb 1920 | 16 Oct 2009 | 89 | 1 |
Musical Supervisor | Philip Martell | 65 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 103 |
Produced by | Roy Skeggs | 38 | 1 Apr 1934 | 29 Dec 2018 | 84 | 45 |
Production Manager | Ron Jackson | 34 | ||||
Screenplay by | Harry Driver | 41 | 13 May 1931 | 25 Nov 1973 | 42 | 2 |
Screenplay by | Vince Powell | 44 | 6 Aug 1928 | 13 Jul 2009 | 80 | 2 |
Sound Editor | Roy Hyde | 52 | 15 Feb 1920 | 28 Jun 1985 | 65 | 30 |
Sound Recordist | Claude Hitchcock | 54 | 8 Nov 1918 | 4 Oct 2010 | 91 | 14 |
Wardrobe Supervisor | Laura Nightingale | 35 |
Cast
Character | Actor | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Appearances | |
1st Black Girl | Kubi Chaza | 1 | |||||
2nd Black Girl | Venicia Day | 1 | |||||
Airport Clerk | Berry Cornish | 2 | |||||
Airport Porter | George Tovey | 58 | 8 Mar 1914 | 4 Dec 1982 | 68 | 2 | |
Annie Booth | Patricia Hayes | 63 | 22 Dec 1909 | 19 Sep 1998 | 88 | 1 | |
Arthur | Tommy Godfrey | 56 | 20 Jun 1916 | 24 Jun 1984 | 68 | 2 | |
Barbie Reynolds | Nina Baden-Semper | 28 | 1945 | 77 | 1 | ||
Betty | Anna Dawson | 35 | 27 Jul 1937 | 84 | 1 | ||
Bill Reynolds | Rudolph Walker | 33 | 28 Sep 1939 | 82 | 2 | ||
Black Bride | Corinne Skinner | 42 | 1931 | 91 | 2 | ||
Black Groom | Dan Jackson | 48 | 1925 | 18 Nov 2004 | 79 | 1 | |
Bus Driver | Nosher Powell | 44 | 15 Aug 1928 | 20 Apr 2013 | 84 | 3 | |
Carol | Siobhan Quinlan | 1 | |||||
Carter | Arthur English | 53 | 9 May 1919 | 16 Apr 1995 | 77 | 1 | |
Charlie | Lincoln Webb | 1 | |||||
Clippie | Isobel Hurll | 1 | |||||
Coloured Driver | Horace James | 45 | 1928 | 17 Jun 2000 | 72 | 2 | |
Cyril | James Beck | 43 | 21 Feb 1929 | 6 Aug 1973 | 44 | 1 | |
Dolly | Pamela Cundell | 52 | 15 Jan 1920 | 14 Feb 2015 | 95 | 2 | |
Eddie Booth | Jack Smethurst | 40 | 9 Apr 1932 | 16 Feb 2022 | 89 | 2 | |
Indian Conductor | Norman Chappell | 47 | 31 Dec 1925 | 21 Jul 1983 | 57 | 3 | |
Jacko | Keith Marsh | 47 | 1926 | 1 Jan 2013 | 87 | 3 | |
Joan Booth | Kate Williams | 32 | Dec 1941 | 80 | 2 | ||
Joe Reynolds | Charles Hyatt | 41 | 14 Feb 1931 | 1 Jan 2007 | 75 | 1 | |
Lil | Annie Leake | 44 | 1 Aug 1928 | 93 | 2 | ||
Man at Bus Stop | George Roderick | 59 | 9 Oct 1913 | 10 Mar 1976 | 62 | 3 | |
Mr Granger | Bill Fraser | 64 | 5 Jun 1908 | 5 Sep 1987 | 79 | 4 | |
Norma | Andrea Lawrence | 36 | 20 Jun 1936 | 85 | 5 | ||
Police Constable | Michael Sharvell-Martin | 28 | 2 Feb 1944 | 28 Oct 2010 | 66 | 2 | |
Postman | Bill Pertwee | 46 | 21 Jul 1926 | 27 May 2013 | 86 | 2 | |
Registrar | Clifford Mollison | 76 | 30 Mar 1897 | 4 Jun 1986 | 89 | 3 | |
Susie | Princess Tamara | 1 | |||||
Taxi Driver | Fred Griffiths | 60 | 8 Mar 1912 | 27 Aug 1994 | 82 | 1 | |
Terry | Melvyn Hayes | 37 | 11 Jan 1935 | 87 | 4 | ||
Van Driver | Patrick Durkin | 36 | 9 Jun 1936 | 1 Sep 2009 | 73 | 1 | |
White Bride | Lesley Goldie | 1 | |||||
White Groom | John Binden | 29 | 4 Oct 1943 | 10 Oct 1993 | 50 | 1 | |
Winston | Azad Ali | 1 | |||||
Woman on Bus | Damaris Hayman | 43 | 16 Jun 1929 | 3 Jun 2021 | 91 | 2 |
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