A Weekend with Lulu – 1961
A Hammer Film Production presented by Columbia Pictures Corporation
Copyright MCMLIV by Exclusive Films Ltd.
MPAA Approved
All characters and incidents portrayed, and the names used herewith are ficticious and the similarity to any names, characters or history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional
Westrex Sound System
Made at Shepperton Studios, England
Black & White 86 mins
Storyline
Fred, Tim and Deirdre plan a fun weekend break on the coast. What they didn’t make allowances for was the company of Deirdre’s mother who insists on coming along as her daughter’s chaperone.
Crew
| Function | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
| Click a link for more info | Credited | Uncredited | Total | ||||||
| Additional Music | Tony Osborne | 38 | Jun 1922 | 1 Mar 2009 | 91 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Assistant Director | Christopher Sutton | 29 | 1 Sep 1931 | 91 | 7 | 7 | |||
| Camera Operator | Brian West | 32 | 27 Apr 1928 | 94 | 8 | 1 | 9 | ||
| Continuity | Splinters Deason | 48 | 1 Jan 1913 | 11 Oct 2001 | 88 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Director | John (Paddy) Carstairs | 50 | 11 May 1910 | 12 Dec 1970 | 60 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Director of Photog. | Ken Hodges | 38 | 25 Oct 1922 | 1993 | 70 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Editor | Tom Simpson | 6 | 6 | ||||||
| Executive Producer | Michael Carreras | 33 | 21 Dec 1927 | 19 Apr 1994 | 66 | 82 | 3 | 85 | |
| Exterior Photography | Jack Mills | 24 Mar 2005 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Hair Stylist | Bill Griffiths | 61 | 9 Oct 1899 | 5 | 5 | ||||
| Location Manager | Colin Brewer | 28 | 7 May 1932 | 14 Dec 2016 | 84 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Make-up Artist | Dick Bonner-Morris | 50 | 1 Jan 1911 | 20 Sep 1964 | 53 | 4 | 4 | ||
| Producer | Ted Lloyd | 48 | 1 Jan 1913 | 12 Feb 1987 | 74 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Production Designer | John Howell | 46 | 14 Aug 1914 | Jan 1993 | 78 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Production Manager | Jacques de Lane Lea | 29 | 22 Nov 1931 | Jan 2018 | 86 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Screenplay | Ted Lloyd | 48 | 1 Jan 1913 | 12 Feb 1987 | 74 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Sound Editor | Allan Morrison | 31 | 1 Jan 1930 | 14 Feb 2012 | 82 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Sound Recordist | Bill Salter | 1983 | 17 | 17 | |||||
| Story | Ted Lloyd | 48 | 1 Jan 1913 | 12 Feb 1987 | 74 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Story | Val Valentine | 66 | 14 Feb 1895 | 16 Nov 1971 | 76 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Supervising Editor | James Needs | 41 | 17 Oct 1919 | 4 Feb 2003 | 83 | 110 | 1 | 111 | |
| Uncredited | |||||||||
| Assistant Art Director | Helen Thomas | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Boom Operator | Tom Buchanan | 3 | 3 | ||||||
| Clapper Loader | Bob Stilwell | 23 | 3 Dec 1937 | 10 May 2006 | 96 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Draughtsman | David Minty | 21 | 1940 | 2013 | 88 | 1 | 1 | ||
| First Assistant Editor | Brian Smedley-Aston | 26 | 1935 | 88 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Focus Puller | Wally Fairweather | 34 | 1927 | 96 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Production Secretary | Jill Langley | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Publicist | Dora Dobson | 43 | 1 Jan 1918 | 30 Dec 2011 | 93 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Scenic Artist | Ted Barnes | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Second Ass. Director | Ricky Coward | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Second Ast. Editor | Gillian Scott | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Sound Camera Op. | Douglas Barnett | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Sound Maintenance | Ernie Cousins | 39 | 23 Nov 1921 | 1985 | 64 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Still Photographer | Bob Penn | 35 | 8 May 1925 | 2002 | 76 | 1 | 1 |
Cast
| Character | Actor | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
| Click a link for more info | Credited | Uncredited | Total | ||||||
| Bar Patron | Denis Shaw | 40 | 7 Apr 1921 | 28 Feb 1971 | 49 | 4 | 3 | 7 | |
| British Tourist | Kenneth Connor | 42 | 6 Jun 1918 | 28 Nov 1993 | 75 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Cafe Patron | Sidney James | 47 | 8 May 1913 | 26 Apr 1976 | 62 | 7 | 7 | ||
| Card Seller | Harold Berens | 58 | 4 Mar 1903 | 10 May 1995 | 92 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Chiron | Graham Stark | 39 | 20 Jan 1922 | 29 Oct 2013 | 91 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Comte de Grenoble | Alfred Marks | 40 | 28 Jan 1921 | 1 Jul 1996 | 75 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Count’s Butler | Keith Pyott | 59 | 9 Mar 1902 | 6 Apr 1968 | 66 | 2 | 2 | 4 | |
| Count’s Chauffeur | Ernst Walder | 33 | 17 Nov 1927 | 6 Sep 2021 | 93 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Deidrie Proudfoot | Shirley Eaton | 24 | 12 Jan 1937 | 86 | 2 | 2 | |||
| Florence Bell | Irene Handl | 59 | 27 Dec 1901 | 29 Nov 1987 | 85 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Fred Scrutton | Bob Monkhouse | 32 | 1 Jun 1928 | 29 Dec 2003 | 75 | 1 | 1 | ||
| French Girl | Marie Devereux | 20 | 27 Nov 1940 | 30 Dec 2019 | 79 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| French Pianist | Russ Conway | 35 | 2 Sep 1925 | 16 Nov 2000 | 75 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Inspector Larue | Eugene Deckers | 47 | 22 Oct 1913 | 13 Jul 1977 | 63 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Lodge Keeper | Andreas Malandrinos | 72 | 14 Nov 1888 | 11 Jul 1970 | 81 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Lulabelle | Heidi Erich | 24 | 9 Dec 1936 | 86 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Mme, Bon-Bon | Judith Furse | 49 | 3 Mar 1912 | 29 Aug 1974 | 62 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Stationmaster | Sidney Tafler | 44 | 31 Jul 1916 | 8 Nov 1979 | 63 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Timothy Geay | Leslie Phillips | 36 | 20 Apr 1924 | 99 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Uncredited | |||||||||
| Airport Commuter | Pearl Walters | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Band Leader | Geraldo | 56 | 10 Aug 1904 | 4 May 1974 | 69 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Bon Viveur | Harold Kasket | 34 | 26 Jul 1926 | 20 Jan 2002 | 75 | 1 | 1 | ||
| French Railway Worker | John G. Heller | 32 | 19 Apr 1928 | 19 Nov 1989 | 61 | 1 | 1 | ||
| French Tanker Driver | Steve Plytas | 48 | 9 Jan 1913 | 27 Dec 1994 | 81 | 1 | 1 | ||
| French Waiter | Jacques Cey | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| Girl at Mme. Bon-Bon's | Eve Eden | 21 | 1940 | 83 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Girl at Mme. Bon-Bon's | Sally Douglas | 19 | 30 Nov 1941 | Sep 2001 | 59 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Humper | Jim O'Brady | 53 | 13 May 1907 | 1 Jan 1991 | 83 | 18 | 18 | ||
| Humper | Gordon Rollings | 34 | 17 Apr 1926 | 7 Jun 1985 | 59 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Lodgekeeper's Wife | Edie Martin | 81 | 1 Jan 1880 | 21 Feb 1964 | 84 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Mayor | Alexis Bobrinskoy | 67 | 16 Oct 1893 | 6 Feb 1971 | 77 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Police Officer | Jack Silk | 38 | 10 Sep 1922 | 12 Mar 2005 | 82 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Police Officer | Jeff Silk | 35 | 23 Dec 1925 | 19 Oct 1999 | 73 | 3 | 3 | ||
| Restaurant Patron | Bob Raymond | 57 | 21 Jan 1904 | 19 Jun 1985 | 81 | 1 | 1 | ||
| With | Janette Roswell | 21 | 10 May 1939 | 84 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Youth | David Gregory | 26 | 14 Mar 1935 | 88 | 2 | 2 |
Production
| FILMING BEGAN | 14 November 1960 | |
| UK RELEASE | 1 May 1961 | |
| STUDIO | Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England | |
| LOCATION | Lydd Airport, Romney Marsh, Kent, England | |
| Toton Marshalling Yard, Long Eaton, Derbyshire, England | Goods yard scene | |
| Longmoor Military Railway, Hampshire, England | Chateauron sur Bois signal box scene |
Footnotes
This was Bob Monkhouse’s only film for Hammer. He bacame a household name as host of London Weekend TV’s “Golden Shot” in 1967, followed by shows such as “Celebrity Squares” & “Family Fortunes”.
Leslie Phillips, a much-loved comic actor who has specialized in playing plummy, quintessentially English stereotypes. A star of many films, he also provided the voice for The Sorting Hat in the “Harry Potter” films.
Shirley Eaton famously played the girl painted gold in the James Bond film “Goldfinger” (1964).
This was Sid James’ last film for Hammer, he starred in “Quatermass 2” (1957), “The Glass Cage” (1955), “The House Across the Lake” (1954), “The Flanagan Boy” (1953) and “The Lady Craved Excitement” (1950).
Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection