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	01.01.1938		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	01.01.1934		88		3	3
Grip	Albert Cowlard	41	1923	01.01.1923		99		10	10
Production Secretary	Maureen White	34	1930	01.01.1930		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	17.06.1939		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	08.12.1939		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	15.05.1944		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