Maniac – 1963

Columbia Pictures Corporation presents A Hammer Film Production
Copyright MCMLXII Hammer Film Productions Ltd.
MPAA Approved Certificate
The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herein are fictitious and any similarity to the names characters or history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional
A Hammer Film Production made at Metro, Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Borehamwood, England
RCA Sound Recording
Black & White 86 mins Hammerscope
Storyline
A dissolute drifter down on his luck, Jeff Farrell, is stranded in a cheap bar in France where he falls for Annette, the proprietor’s pretty stepdaughter. Annette’s stepmother Eve, gradually shifts the young man’s attentions to herself, rather than her stepdaughter, and together Eve and Jeff concoct a plot to help free Eve’s estranged husband from the institution in which he’s been confined as a homicidal maniac these past four years after committing the so-called “Acetylene Murder”, when used a blowtorch to kill the man who raped Annette. The idea is that Georges, the husband, will leave the country, but, unknown to Jeff, it’s not Georges who escapes but Henri, the guard who has become Eve’s lover . . .



Crew
Function | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
Click a link for more info | Credited | Uncredited | Total | ||||||
Art Director | Edward Carrick | 58 | 3 Jan 1905 | 21 Jan 1998 | 93 | 3 | 3 | ||
Ast. Director | Ross MacKenzie | 3 | 3 | ||||||
Ast. Producer | Ian Lewis | 30 | 23 Nov 1932 | 90 | 5 | 5 | |||
Camera Operator | Harry Gillam | 26 Apr 1990 | 3 | 3 | |||||
Continuity | Kay Rawlings | 45 | 1918 | Jul 1981 | 63 | 3 | 3 | ||
Director | Michael Carreras | 35 | 21 Dec 1927 | 19 Apr 1994 | 66 | 82 | 3 | 85 | |
Director of Photog. | Wilkie Cooper | 51 | 19 Oct 1911 | 15 Dec 2001 | 90 | 1 | 1 | ||
Editor | Tom Simpson | 6 | 6 | ||||||
Hair Stylst | Pat McDermot | 33 | 1930 | 2015 | 84 | 5 | 5 | ||
Make-up Artist | Basil Newall | 39 | 17 May 1924 | Nov 1991 | 67 | 2 | 2 | ||
Music Composed and Conducted by | Stanley Black | 49 | 14 Jun 1913 | 26 Nov 2002 | 89 | 5 | 5 | ||
Producer | Jimmy Sangster | 35 | 2 Dec 1927 | 19 Aug 2011 | 83 | 65 | 2 | 67 | |
Production Manager | Bill Hill | 41 | 1 Jun 1921 | 101 | 3 | 3 | |||
Sound Editor | Roy Baker | 35 | Jul 1927 | Feb 2011 | 83 | 29 | 1 | 30 | |
Sound Recordist | Cyril Swern | 42 | 27 Jan 1921 | Dec 1987 | 66 | 2 | 2 | ||
Supervising Editor | James Needs | 43 | 17 Oct 1919 | 4 Feb 2003 | 83 | 110 | 1 | 111 | |
Wardrobe Supervisor | Molly Arbuthnot | 54 | 19 Dec 1908 | 31 Oct 2001 | 92 | 48 | 4 | 52 | |
Writer | Jimmy Sangster | 35 | 2 Dec 1927 | 19 Aug 2011 | 83 | 65 | 2 | 67 | |
Uncredited | |||||||||
Ast. Art Director | Jean Peyre | 37 | 1926 | 2001 | 75 | 1 | 1 | ||
Ast. Make-up Artist | Stella Morris | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Boom Operator | Bill Baldwin | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Chargehand Props | Tommy Ibbetson | 42 | 9 Oct 1920 | 29 Jun 2005 | 84 | 1 | 1 | ||
Clapper Loader | Ray Andrew | 23 | 1940 | 83 | 3 | 3 | |||
Draughtsman | Fred Carter | 31 | 1932 | 91 | 2 | 2 | |||
Electrician | Bert Chapple | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Focus Puller | Trevor Wrenn | 27 | 1 May 1936 | 86 | 2 | 2 | |||
Focus Puller | Tommy Fletcher | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Grip | L. Kelly | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Master Carpenter | Tommy Westbrook | 29 | 1934 | 89 | 1 | 1 | |||
Production Design | Bernard Robinson | 50 | 28 Jul 1912 | 2 Mar 1970 | 57 | 46 | 3 | 49 | |
Production Secretary | Margurite Green | 41 | 1922 | 4 Jun 1983 | 61 | 1 | 1 | ||
Props Buyer | Marjory Whittington | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Scenic Artist | Feliks Sergejak | 57 | 1906 | 1982 | 76 | 4 | 4 | ||
Second Ast. Director | Terry Lens | 29 | 1 Aug 1933 | 2008 | 74 | 2 | 2 | ||
Sound Camera Operator | Ron Matthews | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Sound Maintenance | Peter Martingell | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Still Photog. | James Swarbrick | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Wardrobe | Jean Fairlie | 38 | 25 Jun 1924 | 2007 | 82 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Cast
Character | Actor | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
Credited | Uncredited | Total | |||||||
Annette Beynat | Liliane Brousse | 26 | 27 Sep 1936 | 86 | 2 | 2 | |||
Eve Beynat | Nadia Gray | 39 | 23 Nov 1923 | 13 Jun 1994 | 70 | 1 | 1 | ||
Giles | Jerold Wells | 54 | 8 Aug 1908 | 19 Jul 1999 | 90 | 4 | 4 | ||
Grace | Justine Lord | 26 | 8 Mar 1937 | 85 | 2 | 2 | |||
Henri | Donald Houston | 39 | 6 Nov 1923 | 13 Oct 1991 | 67 | 2 | 2 | ||
Inspector Etienne | George Pastell | 40 | 13 Mar 1923 | 4 Apr 1976 | 53 | 5 | 1 | 6 | |
Janiello | Arnold Diamond | 48 | 18 Apr 1915 | 18 Mar 1992 | 76 | 4 | 2 | 6 | |
Jeff Farrell | Kerwin Matthews | 37 | 8 Jan 1926 | 5 Jul 2007 | 81 | 2 | 2 | ||
Salon | Norman Bird | 38 | 30 Oct 1924 | 22 Apr 2005 | 80 | 5 | 5 | ||
Uncredited | |||||||||
Bar Patron | Jack May | 3 | 3 | ||||||
Blanchard | Leon Peers | 32 | 7 Apr 1931 | 91 | 1 | 1 | |||
Salon (Voice) | Andre Maranne | 37 | 14 May 1926 | 12 Apr 2021 | 94 | 1 | 1 |
Production
FILMING BEGAN | 28 May 1962 | |
UK RELEASE | 20 May 1963 | |
STUDIO | MGM British Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England | |
LOCATION | Montfrin Gard, France | Eve and Jeff meet at this town's WWI memorial |
Les Baux-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France | Quarry | |
Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France | Roman amphitheatre | |
Carmarque, France |
Footnotes
The film was on Hammer’s 1960 schedule but for unclear reasons it was shelved. It would have starred Peter Cushing and George Sanders.
Norman Bird is dubbed by André Maranne.
Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection