The Stranger Came Home – 1954

A Hammer Film Production released by Lippert Pictures Inc.
Copyright MCMLIV by Exclusive Films Ltd.
MPAA Approved Certilicate No. 14942

All characters in this photoplay are fictitious and bear no resemblance to any real person living or dead.

RCA Sound System
Black & White 80 minutes

Storyline

Philip Vickers mysteriously reappears to his wife and friends during a party at her upscale country estate after an absence of four years. He had been presumed dead after he disappeared on a fishing trip in Portugal with three friends. He was knocked unconscious and pushed overboard by an unknown assailant. In the interim, he had suffered from amnesia but now has regained his faculties. All the potential suspects, including his wife, are at the party. When one of them is killed, the police are called in, and suspicion for the crime falls on the vengeful Vickers.

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Crew


Function	Credited	Age at Release	Birth	Death	Age	Hammer Credits
	Click a link for more info					Credited	Uncredited	Total
Art Director	J. Elder Wills	54	26 Apr 1900	1970	69	22		22
Ast. Director	Jack Causey	40	1914	1977	63	6	1	7
Camera Operator	Len Harris	38	19 May 1916	21 Feb 1995	78	52	1	53
Director	Terence Fisher	50	23 Feb 1904	18 Jun 1980	76	31		31
Director of Photog.	Walter Harvey BSc	51	9 Feb 1903	1979	75	34		34
Editor	Bill Lenny	26	1928	2002	74	10	2	12
From the novel “Stranger at Home” by	George Sanders	48	3 Jul 1906	25 Apr 1972	65	1		1
Hairdresser	Eileen Bates					3		3
Make-up	Phil Leakey	46	4 May 1908	26 Nov 1992	84	48		48
Music Composer	Leonard Salzedo	32	24 Sep 1921	6 May 2000	78	7	1	8
Musical Director	John Hollingsworth	38	20 Mar 1916	29 Dec 1963	47	36	2	38
Producer	Michael Carreras	26	21 Dec 1927	19 Apr 1994	66	82	3	85
Production Manager	Jimmy Sangster	26	2 Dec 1927	19 Aug 2011	83	65	2	67
Screenplay	Michael Carreras	26	21 Dec 1927	19 Apr 1994	66	82	3	85
Sound Recording	Sid Wiles	55	2 Feb 1899	Jul 1973	74	6		6
Sound Recording	Ken Cameron	38	1 Dec 1915	8 Aug 2000	84	8	2	10
Wardrobe	Molly Arbuthnot	45	19 Dec 1908	31 Oct 2001	92	48	4	52
Uncredited
Additional Music	Ivor Slaney	33	27 May 1921	20 Mar 1998	76	11	1	12
Additional Music	Eric Rogers	32	25 Sep 1921	8 Apr 1981	59		2	2
Sound Camera Operator	Don Alton	40	1914	18 Jan 1987	73		9	9

Cast


Character	Actor	Age at Release	Birth	Death	Age	Hammer Productions
	Click a link for more info					Credited	Uncredited	Total
Angie	Paulette Goddard	44	3 Jun 1910	23 Apr 1990	79	1		1
Bill Saul	Paul Carpenter	32	8 Dec 1921	12 Jun 1964	42	5		5
Blonde	Pat Owens	29	17 Jan 1925	31 Aug 2000	75	1		1
Brownie	Jack Taylor					2		2
Inspector Traherne	Russell Napier	43	28 Nov 1910	19 Aug 1964	53	5	1	6
Jennie	Kay Callard	30	10 Nov 1923	7 Mar 2008	84	1		1
Joan Merill	Alvys Maben	32	1 Jan 1922	29 Sep 1963	41	3		3
Job Crandall	Patrick Holt	42	31 Jan 1912	12 Oct 1993	81	3	1	4
Medical Examiner	Philip Lennard	45	24 Sep 1908	18 Sep 1994	85	1		1
Philip Vickers	William Sylvester	32	31 Jan 1922	25 Jan 1995	72	1		1
Redhead	Owen Evans					1		1
Roddy	Kim Mills	23	22 Oct 1930	28 Aug 2006	75	1		1
Sergeant Johnson	Jeremy Hawk	36	20 May 1918	15 Jan 2002	83	2		2
Sessions	David King-Wood	40	12 Sep 1913	3 Sep 2003	89	4		4
Uncredited
Party Guest	Arthur Howell	34	5 Jan 1920	Aug 2003	83		5	5
Party Guest	Richard Neller	59	1 Oct 1894	14 Jul 1970	75		8	8
Party Guest	John Wilder						2	2

Production


FILMING BEGAN	1 February 1954
UK RELEASE	9 August 1954
STUDIO	Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire, England

Footnotes

The novel “Stranger At Home” by George Sanders, which this film is based on, was actually ghost-written by Leigh Brackett.

William Sylvester appeared in Stanly Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968).

Patrick Holt played an uncredited First Lieutenant in Hammer’s 1958 film “Further Up The Creek”.

Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection