Nightmare – 1964

A Hammer film production released by Universal Pictures
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MPAA Approved Certificate No. 20455
The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herein are fictitious and any similarity to the name, character, or history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional
RCA Sound Recording
Hammerscope
Produced at Bray Studios, England
Black & White 83 mins
Storyline
Having witnessed her mother murdering her father, Janet (Jennie Linden) has visions that she will also become a murderer confined to a lunatic asylum. Can her appointed guardian Henry, and his lover Grace, manipulate her to kill Henry’s wife?
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Crew
Function | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
Click a link for more info | Credited | Uncredited | Total | ||||||
Art Director | Don Mingaye | 35 | 1 Jan 1929 | 8 Nov 2017 | 88 | 26 | 14 | 40 | |
Ast. Director | Douglas Hermes | 40 | 28 Jun 1923 | 1 Jan 1981 | 57 | 6 | 6 | ||
Camera Operator | Ronnie Maasz | 38 | 2 Feb 1926 | 19 Sep 2007 | 81 | 2 | 2 | ||
Continuity | Pauline Harlow (Wise) | 26 | 1 Jan 1938 | 84 | 11 | 3 | 14 | ||
Director | Freddie Francis | 46 | 22 Dec 1917 | 17 Mar 2007 | 89 | 6 | 6 | ||
Director of Photog. | John Wilcox BSc | 59 | 7 May 1905 | 31 May 1979 | 74 | 6 | 1 | 7 | |
Hair Stylist | Frieda Steiger | 60 | 29 Dec 1903 | 19 Aug 1993 | 89 | 28 | 28 | ||
Make-up Artist | Roy Ashton | 55 | 16 Apr 1909 | 10 Jan 1995 | 85 | 36 | 4 | 40 | |
Music Composer | Don Banks | 40 | 25 Oct 1923 | 5 Sep 1980 | 56 | 9 | 9 | ||
Musical Supervisor | John Hollingsworth | 48 | 20 Mar 1916 | 29 Dec 1963 | 47 | 36 | 2 | 38 | |
Producer | Jimmy Sangster | 36 | 2 Dec 1927 | 19 Aug 2011 | 83 | 65 | 2 | 67 | |
Production Designer | Bernard Robinson | 51 | 28 Jul 1912 | 2 Mar 1970 | 57 | 46 | 3 | 49 | |
Production Manager | Don Weeks | 59 | 15 Nov 1904 | Mar 1988 | 83 | 30 | 30 | ||
Sound Editor | James Groom | 39 | 1 Jan 1925 | 17 May 2016 | 91 | 13 | 3 | 16 | |
Sound Recordist | Ken Rawkins | 46 | Jan 1918 | 1971 | 52 | 18 | 18 | ||
Supervising Editor | James Needs | 44 | 17 Oct 1919 | 4 Feb 2003 | 83 | 110 | 1 | 111 | |
Wardrobe Mistress | Rosemary Burrows | 36 | 5 | 41 | |||||
Writer | Jimmy Sangster | 36 | 2 Dec 1927 | 19 Aug 2011 | 83 | 65 | 2 | 67 | |
Uncredited | |||||||||
Ast. Art Director | Kenneth Ryan | 6 | 6 | ||||||
Boom Ast. | Roy Mingaye | 33 | 1 Jan 1931 | 21 Dec 2017 | 86 | 4 | 4 | ||
Boom Operator | Jim Perry | 8 | 8 | ||||||
Chief Electrician | Jack Curtis | 3 | 23 | 26 | |||||
Construction Manager | Arthur Banks | 18 | 29 | 47 | |||||
Electrician | George Robinson | 2 | 2 | ||||||
First Ast. Editor | Chris Barnes | 26 | 1 Jan 1938 | 5 Jun 2009 | 71 | 21 | 12 | 33 | |
Focus Puller | Ronnie Fox-Rogers | 32 | 1 Jan 1932 | 30 Jan 2008 | 76 | 2 | 2 | ||
Focus Puller | Geoff Glover | 30 | 1934 | 88 | 3 | 3 | |||
Grip | Albert Cowlard | 41 | 1923 | 99 | 10 | 10 | |||
Production Secretary | Maureen White | 34 | 1930 | 92 | 5 | 5 | |||
Property Master | Tom Money | 47 | 1917 | 1974 | 56 | 2 | 20 | 22 | |
Props Buyer | Eric Hillier | 44 | 1920 | 1975 | 55 | 16 | 16 | ||
Publicity Director | Dennison Thornton | 54 | 23 Aug 1909 | 1977 | 67 | 9 | 9 | ||
Second Ast. Director | Hugh Harlow | 24 | 17 Jun 1939 | 83 | 3 | 28 | 31 | ||
Second Ast. Editor | Alan Willis | 27 | 12 Jan 1937 | 25 Apr 2015 | 78 | 2 | 2 | ||
Sound Camera Operator | Alan Thorne | 7 | 7 | ||||||
Sound Camera Operator | Michael Sale | 8 | 8 | ||||||
Special Effects | Les Bowie | 50 | 10 Nov 1913 | 27 Jan 1979 | 65 | 32 | 11 | 43 | |
Still Photog. | Tom Edwards | 1999 | 26 | 26 |
Cast
Character | Actor | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
Credited | Uncredited | Total | |||||||
Doctor | John Welsh | 49 | 7 Nov 1914 | 21 Apr 1985 | 70 | 5 | 5 | ||
Grace Maddox | Moira Redmond | 35 | 14 Jul 1928 | 16 Mar 2006 | 77 | 1 | 1 | ||
Helen Baxter | Clytie Jessop | 35 | 1 Jan 1929 | 9 Apr 2017 | 88 | 1 | 1 | ||
Henry Baxter | David Knight | 36 | 16 Jan 1928 | 20 Dec 2020 | 92 | 1 | 1 | ||
Hotel Barman | Timothy Bateson | 38 | 3 Apr 1926 | 15 Sep 2009 | 83 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
Janet | Jennie Linden | 24 | 8 Dec 1939 | 83 | 1 | 1 | |||
Janet as a child | Elisabeth Dear | 11 | 1953 | 9 Dec 2006 | 53 | 2 | 2 | ||
John | George A. Cooper | 39 | 7 Mar 1925 | 16 Nov 2018 | 93 | 3 | 3 | ||
Mary Lewis | Brenda Bruce | 44 | 7 Jul 1919 | 19 Feb 1996 | 76 | 1 | 1 | ||
Mrs Gibbs | Irene Richmond | 52 | 15 Nov 1911 | 24 May 2009 | 97 | 2 | 2 | ||
Uncredited | |||||||||
Maid (Anne) | Julie Samuel | 20 | 15 May 1944 | 78 | 1 | 1 | |||
Mother | Isla Cameron | 37 | 5 Mar 1927 | 3 Apr 1980 | 53 | 1 | 1 | ||
Sir James Dudley | Hedger Wallace | 36 | 14 Oct 1927 | 30 Jan 2000 | 72 | 1 | 1 | ||
Waiter | Frank Forsyth | 58 | 19 Dec 1905 | 2 May 1984 | 78 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
Production
FILMING BEGAN | 17 December 1962 | |
UK RELEASE | 30 May 1964 | |
STUDIO | Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire, England | |
LOCATION | Wargrave Station, Station Road, Wargrave, Berkshire, England | |
Oakley Court Hotel, Windsor Road, Oakley Green, Windsor, Berkshire, England | External grounds |
Footnotes
Released as a support to Hammer’s “The Evil of Frankenstein” in 1964, this film is noted for its atmospheric title sequence where the credits appear throughout a protracted stagger around a dank asylum.
George A. Cooper also appeared for Hammer as Doug Savage in “Hell is a City” (1960) and as the landlord in “Dracula Has Risen from the Grave” (1968). His notable TV work includes the part of Mr Griffiths – the caretaker in BBC TV’s “Grange Hill” (1977).
Jennie Linden starred alongside Glenda Jackson and Oliver Reed in “Women in Love” (1970), and as Barbara in the spin-off from the cult BBC TV series “Dr Who and the Daleks” (1965) starring Peter Cushing as the Doctor.
Timothy Bateson’s other Hammer appearances were as Mr Bird in “The Anniversary” and (uncredited) as Simpson in “Yesterday’s Enemy” (1959)
Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection