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	23.11.1932		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	01.06.1921		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	01.01.1940		83		3	3
Draughtsman	Fred Carter	31	1932	01.01.1932		91		2	2
Electrician	Bert Chapple							1	1
Focus Puller	Trevor Wrenn	27	1 May 1936	01.05.1936		86		2	2
Focus Puller	Tommy Fletcher							1	1
Grip	L. Kelly							1	1
Master Carpenter	Tommy Westbrook	29	1934	01.01.1934		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	27.09.1936		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	08.03.1937		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	07.04.1931		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