The Damned – 1963

A Hammer production released by Columbia Pictures
Copyright MCMLXI Swallow Productions Ltd. – All right, reserved
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

RCA Sound Recording
Produced at Bray Studios, England
Black & White 86 mins Hammerscope

Storyline

American Simon Wells, on holiday in Weymouth, is set upon and beaten up by a motorbike gang led by the psychotic King. Later, Wells puts out to sea, taking with him King’s sister, Joan. Pursued by King and the gang, they take refuge in an isolated cove, where they stumble upon a top secret establishment in which radioactive children are being raised to safeguard the future of the human race after a nuclear holocaust.

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Crew


Function	Credited	Age at Release	Birth	Death	Age	Hammer Credits
Assistant Director	John Peverall	41	1921	3 Oct 2009	88	20
Associate Producer	Anthony Nelson-Keys	50	13 Nov 1911	19 Mar 1985	73	41
Based on the novel "The Children of Light" by	H.L. Lawrence	53	22 Apr 1908	1 Jun 1990	82	1
Camera Operator	Anthony Heller					1
Casting	Stuart Lyons	34	1928	23 Feb 1998	70	8
Continuity	Pamela Davies			5 Jan 1986		1
Director	Joseph Losey	52	14 Jan 1909	22 Jun 1984	75	2
Director of Photography	Arthur Grant, BSC	47	1915	1972	57	30
Editor	Reginald Mills	49	15 Jul 1912	1 Jul 1990	77	1
Executive Producer	Michael Carreras	34	21 Dec 1927	19 Apr 1994	66	83
Hair Stylist	Frieda Steiger					28
Make-up Artist	Roy Ashton	52	16 Apr 1909	10 Jan 1995	85	36
Music Composer	James Bernard	36	20 Sep 1925	12 Jul 2001	75	24
Musical Supervisor	John Hollingsworth	45	20 Mar 1916	29 Dec 1963	47	36
Producer	Anthony Hinds	39	18 Sep 1922	30 Sep 2013	91	84
Production Manager	Don Weeks	57	15 Nov 1904	1 Mar 1988	83	30
Screenplay by	Evan Jones	34	29 Dec 1927	31 Jul 2012	84	1
Sound Editor	Malcolm Cooke	32	23 Jun 1929	2 Dec 2008	79	1
Sound Recordist	Jock May	57	1905	8 Jan 1991	86	29
Wardrobe Supervisor	Molly Arbuthnot	53	19 Dec 1908	1 Nov 2001	92	48

Cast


Character	Actor	Age at Release	Birth		Death	Age	Hammer Appearances
Anne	Rebecca Dignam						1
Bernard	Alexander Knox	54	16 Jan 1907		25 Apr 1995	88	1
Captain Gregory	James Villiers	28	29 Sep 1933		18 Jan 1998	64	3
Charles	John Thompson						1
Elizabeth	Caroline Sheldon	12	1950	01.01.1950		72	1
Freya Nielson	Viveca Lindfors	41	29 Dec 1920		25 Oct 1995	74	1
George	David Palmer	13	1949	01.01.1949		73	1
Henry	Kit Williams						1
Joan	Shirley Ann Field	23	27 Jun 1938	27.06.1938		83	1
King	Oliver Reed	23	13 Feb 1938		2 May 1999	61	9
Major Holland	Walter Gotell	37	15 Mar 1924		5 May 1997	73	1
Mary	Siobhan Taylor	12	1950	01.01.1950		72	1
Miss Lamont	Barbara Everest	78	9 Jun 1883		9 Feb 1968	84	1
Mr Dingle	Brian Oulton	53	11 Feb 1908		13 Apr 1992	84	3
Mr Stuart	Alan Mcclelland	44	31 Dec 1917		24 Jan 1989	71	1
Mr Talbot	James Maxwell	32	23 Mar 1929		18 Aug 1995	66	2
Richard	Nicholas Clay	15	18 Sep 1946		25 May 2000	53	1
Sid	Kenneth Cope	30	14 Apr 1931	14.04.1931		90	2
Simon Wells	Macdonald Carey	48	15 Mar 1913		21 Mar 1994	81	1
Ted	Thomas Kempinski	23	24 Mar 1938	24.03.1938		83	2
Victoria	Rachel Clay	12	1950	01.01.1950		72	1
William	Christopher Witty	11	26 May 1950	26.05.1950		71	1

Production


FILMING BEGAN	7 May 1961
UK RELEASE	20 May 1963
STUDIO	Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire, England
LOCATION	Portland Bill, Dorset, England
	Weymouth, Dorset, England
	Chesil Beach, Dorset, England

Footnotes

This highly off-beat production proved something of a headache and it was two years before it came down off the shelf and was released in an unsuccessful double bill with Hammer’s “Maniac” (1963).

There is no credit for Production Designer on the film, but sources name Bernard Robinson as the most likely candidate for the job.

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