She – 1965

A Hammer film production presented by Associated British Picture Corporation Limited and released through Warner-Pathe Distributors Ltd (UK) and Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer (USA)
Copyright MCMLXV Hammer film Productions Ltd. – All rights reserved
MPAA Approved Certificate
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 System
Made at the Elstree Studios of Associated British Picture Corporation, Herts, England
Technicolor 106 mins Hammerscope
Storyline
Palestine 1918: Ex-soldiers Leo, Holly and Job are pondering their future now that the Great War is over. Then Leo is accosted in an alleyway and knocked unconscious. He awakes in a strange house, where he meets Ayesha, a beautiful, mysterious young woman who promises him power, riches and glory if he can survive a perilous journey to join her again in her own land. Giving him a map and a golden ring, Ayesha then sends Leo away. He manages to find his way back to Holly, who recognises the insignia on the ring as that of Kallikrites, an ancient High Priest of the legendary lost city of Kuma, supposedly somewhere deep in the desert in the Mountains of the Moon. Leo, Holly and their batman, Job; set off into the desert in search of the city and discover an adventure beyond their wildest dreams – a dangerous and mystical adventure of cruel love and burning jealousy, of romance and tragedy, and of death and immortality – an adventure which has already spanned more than 2,000 years!
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Crew
Function | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | |
Art Director | Robert Jones | 6 | |||||
Assistant Art Director | Don Mingaye | 36 | 1929 | 8 Nov 2017 | 88 | 25 | |
Assistant Director | Bruce Sharman | 35 | 22 Dec 1929 | 92 | 1 | ||
Assistant to Producer | Ian Lewis | 32 | 23 Nov 1932 | 89 | 5 | ||
Associate Producer | Aida Young | 44 | 11 Aug 1920 | 12 Aug 2007 | 87 | 8 | |
Based on the Novel by | H. Rider Haggard | 108 | 22 Jun 1856 | 14 May 1925 | 68 | 1 | |
Camera Operator | Ernest Day | 37 | 15 Apr 1927 | 16 Nov 2006 | 79 | 1 | |
Choreography | Cristyne Lawson | 29 | 31 May 1935 | 86 | 1 | ||
Construction Manager | Arthur Banks | 18 | |||||
Continuity | Eileen Head | 5 | |||||
Costumes for Miss Andress | Carl Toms | 37 | 29 May 1927 | 4 Aug 1999 | 72 | 7 | |
Directed by | Robert Day | 42 | 11 Sep 1922 | 17 Mar 2017 | 94 | 1 | |
Director of Photography | Harry Waxman, BSc | 52 | 3 Apr 1912 | 24 Dec 1984 | 72 | 3 | |
Editor | Eric Boyd-Perkins | 48 | 1917 | 4 Dec 2014 | 97 | 10 | |
Hair Stylist | Eileen Warwick | 1 | |||||
Location Manager | Yoske Hausdorf | 37 | 10 Oct 1927 | 94 | 1 | ||
Make-up | John O'Gorman | 53 | 7 May 1911 | 1 Aug 1977 | 66 | 1 | |
Music Composed by | James Bernard | 39 | 20 Sep 1925 | 12 Jul 2001 | 75 | 24 | |
Musical Supervisor | Philip Martell | 57 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 103 | |
Produced by | Michael Carreras | 37 | 21 Dec 1927 | 19 Apr 1994 | 66 | 82 | |
Production Manager | R.L.M. Davidson | 52 | 1913 | 1968 | 55 | 1 | |
Recording Director | A.W. Lumkin | 51 | 2 Feb 1913 | 25 Oct 1985 | 72 | 30 | |
Research | Andrew Low | 4 | |||||
Screenplay by | David T. Chantler | 39 | 24 May 1925 | 13 Mar 2012 | 86 | 2 | |
Sound Editor | Jim Groom | 40 | 1925 | 17 May 2016 | 91 | 9 | |
Sound Editor | Vernon Messenger | 37 | 1928 | 94 | 2 | ||
Sound Recordist | Claude Hitchcock | 46 | 8 Nov 1918 | 4 Oct 2010 | 91 | 14 | |
Special Effects | George Blackwell | 57 | 26 Feb 1907 | 1975 | 67 | 2 | |
Special Effects Make-up | Roy Ashton | 55 | 16 Apr 1909 | 10 Jan 1995 | 85 | 36 | |
Special Processes | Les Bowie | 51 | 10 Nov 1913 | 27 Jan 1979 | 65 | 32 | |
Supervising Editor | James Needs | 45 | 17 Oct 1919 | 2003 | 83 | 110 | |
Wardrobe Mistress | Jackie Cummins | 2 |
Cast
Character | Actor | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Appearances | |
Ayesha | Ursula Andress | 28 | 19 Mar 1936 | 85 | 1 | ||
Billali | Christopher Lee | 42 | 27 May 1922 | 7 Jun 2015 | 93 | 22 | |
Guard Captain | John Maxim | 39 | 20 Jul 1925 | 20 Jan 1990 | 64 | 2 | |
Handmaiden | Bula Coleman | 1 | |||||
Handmaiden | Cherry Larman | 1 | |||||
Haumeid | Andre Morell | 55 | 20 Aug 1909 | 4 Dec 1978 | 69 | 9 | |
Holly | Peter Cushing | 51 | 26 May 1913 | 11 Aug 1994 | 81 | 24 | |
Job | Bernard Cribbins | 36 | 29 Dec 1928 | 92 | 2 | ||
Leo | John Richardson | 30 | 19 Jan 1934 | 5 Jan 2021 | 86 | 3 | |
Ustane | Rosenda Monteros | 29 | 31 Aug 1935 | 29 Dec 2018 | 83 | 1 |
Production
FILMING BEGAN | 24 August 1964 | |
UK RELEASE | 18 April 1965 | |
STUDIO | Elstree Studios of Associated British Picture Corporation, Hertfordshire, England | |
Associated British Elstree Studios, Shenley Road, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire, England | ||
LOCATION | Negev Desert, Israel |
Footnotes
This was Hammer’s longest film and their most ambitious production to date, an epic adventure in the style much preferred by Michael Carreras to the Company’s usual subject matter. It also marks the first billing of later producer Aida Young.
Although she had made her mark in the first James Bond film, “Dr No” (1962), it was this film that rocketed Ursula Andress to international stardom.
John Richardson had already appeared in Mario Bava’s “Black Sunday” (1961), an Italian horror film starring Barbara Steele. His other roles for Hammer were in “One Million Years B.C.” (1966) and “The Vengeance of She” (1968).
Robert Day was a highly versatile director. His widely contrasting films include “The Green Man” (1956), “First Man into Space” (1958), “Grip of the Strangler” (1958, with Boris Karloff), “Corridors of Blood” (1958, with Karloff again and Christopher Lee), “Two-Way Stretch” (1960) and five “Tarzan” movies – “Tarzan the Magnificent” (1960), “Tarzan’s Three Challenges” (1963), “Tarzan and the Valley of Gold” (1966), “Tarzan and the Great River” (1967) and “Tarzan and the Jungle Boy” (1968).
Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection