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 Credits | |
Art Director | Don Mingaye | 35 | 1929 | 8 Nov 2017 | 88 | 25 | |
Assistant Director | Douglas Hermes | 40 | 28 Jun 1923 | 1981 | 58 | 6 | |
Camera Operator | Ronnie Maasz | 37 | 2 Feb 1926 | 19 Sep 2007 | 81 | 2 | |
Continuity | Pauline Wise (Harlow) | 26 | 1938 | 84 | 11 | ||
Directed by | Freddie Francis | 46 | 22 Dec 1917 | 17 Mar 2007 | 89 | 6 | |
Director of Photography | John Wilcox, BSc | 58 | 7 May 1905 | 31 May 1979 | 74 | 6 | |
Hair Stylist | Frieda Steiger | 28 | |||||
Make-up Artist | Roy Ashton | 54 | 16 Apr 1909 | 10 Jan 1995 | 85 | 36 | |
Music Composed by | Don Banks | 40 | 25 Oct 1923 | 5 Sep 1980 | 56 | 9 | |
Musical Supervisor | John Hollingsworth | 47 | 20 Mar 1916 | 29 Dec 1963 | 47 | 36 | |
Producer | Jimmy Sangster | 36 | 2 Dec 1927 | 19 Aug 2011 | 83 | 65 | |
Production Designer | Bernard Robinson | 51 | 28 Jul 1912 | 2 Mar 1970 | 57 | 46 | |
Production Manager | Don Weeks | 59 | 15 Nov 1904 | 1 Mar 1988 | 83 | 30 | |
Sound Editor | James Groom | 39 | 1925 | 17 May 2016 | 91 | 9 | |
Sound Recordist | Ken Rawkins | 46 | 1918 | 1971 | 53 | 18 | |
Supervising Editor | James Needs | 44 | 17 Oct 1919 | 2003 | 83 | 110 | |
Wardrobe Mistress | Rosemary Burrows | 36 | |||||
Writer | Jimmy Sangster | 36 | 2 Dec 1927 | 19 Aug 2011 | 83 | 65 |
Cast
Character | Actor | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Appearances | |
Doctor | John Welsh | 49 | 7 Nov 1914 | 21 Apr 1985 | 70 | 5 | |
Grace Maddox | Moira Redmond | 35 | 14 Jul 1928 | 16 Mar 2006 | 77 | 1 | |
Helen Baxter | Clytie Jessop | 35 | 1929 | 9 Apr 2017 | 88 | 1 | |
Henry Baxter | David Knight | 35 | 16 Jan 1928 | 20 Dec 2020 | 93 | 1 | |
Hotel Barman | Timothy Bateson | 37 | 3 Apr 1926 | 15 Sep 2009 | 83 | 3 | |
Janet | Jennie Linden | 24 | 8 Dec 1939 | 81 | 1 | ||
Janet as a child | Elizabeth Dear | 2 | |||||
John | George A. Cooper | 38 | 7 Mar 1925 | 16 Nov 2018 | 93 | 3 | |
Mary Lewis | Brenda Bruce | 44 | 7 Jul 1919 | 19 Feb 1996 | 76 | 1 | |
Mrs Gibbs | Irene Richmond | 52 | 15 Nov 1911 | 24 May 2009 | 97 | 2 |
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