The Full Treatment – 1960

Alternative Title: Stop Me Before I Kill

A Val Guest production in association with Falcon Films Limited released by Columbia Pictures
Copyright MCMLX by Hilary Productions Ltd. – All rights reserved
MPAA Approved Certificate No. 19650

The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herein are fictitious and any similarity to the names, character, or history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional

RCA Sound Recording
Made at Associated British Studios, Elstree, England
Black & White 109 mins
Megascope

Storyline

Still recovering from serious head injuries sustained in a car crash, motor racing driver Alan Colby and his wife Denise go on holiday to the South of France. There, Alan is suddenly and unexpectedly struck with a compulsion to strangle his wife. Hearing about this, Dr. David Prade, a local psychiatrist, offers to help, but his offer is rejected by Alan and he and Denise return to London.
The psychiatrist follows them there, convinced that sooner or later his services will be needed and that he should be close at hand. At first, all seems well with Alan, but then one morning he wakes from a long sleep to find that Denise has disappeared. Worse, all the evidence points to his having murdered her…..

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Crew


Function	Credited	Age at Release	Birth		Death	Age	Hammer Productions
							Credited	Uncredited	Total
Art Direction	Tony Masters	41	9 Nov 1919		12 May 1990	70	1		1
Assistant Director	Kip Gowans	30	28 Mar 1930		11 Mar 2011	80	1		1
Associate Producer	Victor Lyndon	42	19 Dec 1918		Sep 1996	77	1		1
Camera Operator	Moray Grant	43	13 Nov 1917		17 Sep 1977	59	29		29
Continuity	Doreen Dearnaley	32	20 Nov 1928		3 Feb 1992	63	13		13
Costumes	Beatrice Dawson	53	26 Jan 1908		16 Apr 1976	68	2		2
Director	Val Guest	49	11 Dec 1911		10 May 2006	94	29		29
Director of Photography	Gilbert Taylor BSc	46	21 Apr 1914		23 Aug 2013	99	1		1
Film Editor	Bill Lenny	33	1928		2002	74	10	2	12
From novel by	Ronald Scott Thorn	40	27 Apr 1920		20 Apr 1996	75	2		2
Hairdressing	Ivy Emmerton						7		7
Make-up	Tony Sforzini						1		1
Music	Stanley Black	47	14 Jun 1913		26 Nov 2002	89	5		5
Producer	Val Guest	49	11 Dec 1911		10 May 2006	94	29		29
Production Manager	Clifton Brandon	34	26 Jan 1927		20 Sep 2018	91	1		1
Screenplay	Val Guest	49	11 Dec 1911		10 May 2006	94	29		29
Screenplay	Ronald Scott Thorn	40	27 Apr 1920		20 Apr 1996	75	2		2
Set Decoration	Scott Slimon	45	8 Aug 1915		1980	64	1		1
Sound Recordist	Bert Ross	56	26 Apr 1904		1972	67	1		1
Uncredited
Focus Puller	Kelvin Pike	32	1 Jan 1929	01.01.1929		94	1	1	2
Production Accountant	Doreen Jones	35	1926	01.01.1926		97		2	2
Special Photog. Effects	Vic Margutti	48	1913		1980	67		6	6

Cast


Character	Actor	Age at Release	Birth		Death	Age	Hammer Productions
							Credited	Uncredited	Total
Alan Colby	Ronald Lewis	32	11 Dec 1928		11 Jan 1982	53	3		3
Baroness de la Vaillon	Barbara Chilcott	38	10 Sep 1922		1 Jan 2022	99	1		1
Connie	Katya Douglas	22	14 Feb 1938	14.02.1938		84	1		1
Denise Colby	Diane Cilento	28	2 Apr 1932		6 Oct 2011	79	2		2
Doctor Manfield	George Merritt	70	10 Dec 1890		27 Aug 1977	86	3		3
Doctor Roberts	Edwin Styles	62	13 Jan 1899		20 Dec 1960	61	1		1
Dr David Prade	Claude Dauphin	57	19 Aug 1903		16 Nov 1978	75	1		1
Harry	Bernard Braden	44	16 May 1916		2 Feb 1993	76	1		1
Madame Prade	Francoise Rosay	69	19 Apr 1891		28 Mar 1974	82	1		1
Nicole	Ann Tirard	43	5 Jun 1917		12 Aug 2003	86	1		1
Uncredited
London Taxi Driver	Dickie Owen	33	26 Mar 1927		7 Apr 2015	88	3	1	4
Onlooker at Crash	Roy Everson				1 Apr 2001			1	1
Onlooker at Crash	Aileen Lewis	46	9 Apr 1914		12 Feb 2014	99	1	5	6

Production


FILMING BEGAN	2 May 1960
UK RELEASE	1 February 1961
STUDIO	Associated British Elstree Studios, Shenley Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England
LOCATION	French Riviera, Alpes-Maritimes, France

Footnotes

In the introduction to the main filmography, we stated that only films described in their credits as Hammer productions would be eligible for inclusion. Well, this film is the one exception we shall be making to that rule. The reasons for doing so are two-fold:- (a) it is included in all lists of Hammer Films, and (b) Falcon was a subsidiary of Hammer.

Actor Ronald Lewis also starred in Hammer’s “Taste of Fear” (1961) and “The Brigand of Kandahar” (1965).

Bernard Braden was, like his wife Barbara Kelly, more well known as a TV personality than an actor and was host of programmes such as “Criss Cross Quiz” and “On the Braden Beat” in the 1960s. Another of his acting roles was also for director Val Guest in the documentary-style sci-fi thriller “The Day the Earth Caught Fire” (1961).

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