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 | 31 | 1931 | 3 Oct 2009 | 78 | 21 |
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 | 82 |
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 | 30 |
Wardrobe Supervisor | Molly Arbuthnot | 53 | 19 Dec 1908 | 31 Oct 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 | 72 | 1 | ||
Freya Nielson | Viveca Lindfors | 41 | 29 Dec 1920 | 25 Oct 1995 | 74 | 1 | |
George | David Palmer | 13 | 1949 | 73 | 1 | ||
Henry | Kit Williams | 1 | |||||
Joan | Shirley Ann Field | 23 | 27 Jun 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 | 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 | 90 | 2 | ||
Simon Wells | Macdonald Carey | 48 | 15 Mar 1913 | 21 Mar 1994 | 81 | 1 | |
Ted | Thomas Kempinski | 23 | 24 Mar 1938 | 83 | 2 | ||
Victoria | Rachel Clay | 12 | 1950 | 72 | 1 | ||
William | Christopher Witty | 11 | 26 May 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