The Stranglers of Bombay – 1959

A Hammer Film production in association with Kenneth Hyman released by Columbia Pictures
Copyright MCMLlX by Hammer Film Productions Ltd. – All rights reserled
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 Recording
Produced at Bray Studios
Black and White 80 mins Megascope

Storyline

Opening titles:- “For hundreds of years there existed in India a perverted religious sect dedicated to the wanton destruction of human life…..so secret was this savage cult that even the British East India Company, rulers of the country at the time, was unaware of their existence…..until…..in 1829…..” Captain Lewis suspects that the disappearance of a host of local people may be connected to a secretive cult and, despite the incredulity of his fellow officers, makes it his mission to discover the truth.

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Crew


Function	Credited	Age at Release	Birth		Death	Age	Hammer Productions
	Click a link for more info						Credited	Uncredited	Total
Assistant Director	John Peverall	29	1 Jan 1931		3 Oct 2009	78	21		21
Associate Producer	Anthony Nelson-Keys	48	13 Nov 1911		19 Mar 1985	73	41		41
Camera Operator	Len Harris	43	19 May 1916		21 Feb 1995	78	52	1	53
Continuity	Tilly Day	57	1903		1994	91	13	1	14
Director	Terence Fisher	55	23 Feb 1904		18 Jun 1980	76	31		31
Director of Photog.	Arthur Grant BSc	45	1915		1972	56	30		30
Editor	Alfred Cox	35	1925		2005	80	21	4	25
Executive Producer	Michael Carreras	32	21 Dec 1927		19 Apr 1994	66	82	3	85
Hair Stylist	Henry Montsash	54	17 Sep 1905		29 Sep 1974	69	16		16
Historical Adviser	Michael Edwards						1		1
Make-up	Roy Ashton	50	16 Apr 1909		10 Jan 1995	85	36	4	40
Music Composer	James Bernard	34	20 Sep 1925		12 Jul 2001	75	24	1	25
Musical Supervisor	John Hollingsworth	43	20 Mar 1916		29 Dec 1963	47	36	2	38
Producer	Anthony Hinds	37	18 Sep 1922		30 Sep 2013	91	84	1	85
Production Designer	Bernard Robinson	47	28 Jul 1912		2 Mar 1970	57	46	3	49
Production Manager	Don Weeks	55	15 Nov 1904		Mar 1988	83	30		30
Sound Editor	Arthur Cox						4	1	5
Sound Recordist	Jock May	55	1 Jan 1905		8 Jan 1991	86	30	1	31
Supervising Editor	James Needs	40	17 Oct 1919		4 Feb 2003	83	110	1	111
Wardrobe Mistress	Molly Arbuthnot	51	19 Dec 1908		31 Oct 2001	92	48	4	52
Writer	David Z Goodman	30	15 Jan 1930		26 Sep 2011	81	1		1
Uncredited
Ast. Art Director	Don Mingaye	31	1 Jan 1929		8 Nov 2017	88	26	14	40
Assistant Editor	Chris Barnes	22	1 Jan 1938		5 Jun 2009	71	21	12	33
Clapper Loader	Alan McDonald	22	1938	01.01.1938		85		14	14
Focus Puller	Harry Oakes	39	16 Jan 1921		11 Dec 2012	91		53	53
Master Plasterer	Arthur Banks						18	29	47
Publicist	Colin Reid							6	6
Publicity Director	Dennison Thornton	50	23 Aug 1909		1977	67		9	9
Second Ast. Director	Tom Walls	47	31 May 1912		28 Nov 1992	80	1	9	10
Second Ast. Director	Hugh Harlow	20	17 Jun 1939	17.06.1939		83	3	28	31
Still Photographer	Tom Edwards				1999			26	26

Cast


Character	Actor	Age at Release	Birth	Death	Age	Hammer Productions
	Click a link for more info					Credited	Uncredited	Total
Burns	John Harvey	48	27 Sep 1911	19 Jul 1982	70	12	1	13
Cut. Connaught-Smith	Allan Cuthbertson	39	7 Apr 1920	8 Feb 1988	67	3		3
Captain Lewis	Guy Rolfe	48	27 Dec 1911	19 Oct 2003	91	2		2
Girl Thug	Marie Devereux	19	27 Nov 1940	30 Dec 2019	79	3	1	4
Henderson	Andrew Cruickshank	52	25 Dec 1907	29 Apr 1988	80	1		1
High Priest	George Pastell	36	13 Mar 1923	4 Apr 1976	53	5	1	6
Lieutenant Silva	Paul Stassino	30	1 Jan 1930	28 Jun 2012	82	1		1
Mary Lewis	Jan Holden	28	9 May 1931	11 Oct 2005	74	3	1	4
Patel Shari	Marne Maitland	45	18 Dec 1914	Mar 1992	77	8		8
Ramdas	Tutte Lemkow	41	28 Aug 1918	10 Nov 1991	73	1		1
Street Seller	Warren Mitchell	34	14 Jan 1926	14 Nov 2015	89	4	1	5
Thug	Roger Delgado	41	1 Mar 1918	18 Jun 1973	55	4	1	5
Uncredited
Camel Vendor	Ewen Solon	42	7 Sep 1917	7 Jul 1985	67	5	1	6
Corp. Roberts	Jack McNaughton	54	22 Dec 1905	22 Feb 1990	84	2	1	3
Dorothy Flood	Margaret Gordon						1	1
Gopali Das	David Spenser	25	12 Mar 1934	20 Jul 2013	79		1	1
Sidney Flood	Michael Nightingale	37	6 Oct 1922	8 May 1999	76	2	1	3
Thuggee Cult Member	Walter Randall	41	1919	2008	88		2	2
Thuggee Cult Member	Vincent Wong	31	4 Feb 1928	13 Mar 2015	87		4	4
Walters	Steven Scott	39	23 Jan 1920	1981	60		2	2

Production


FILMING BEGAN	6 June 1959
UK RELEASE	18 Jan 1960
STUDIO	Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire, England
LOCATION	Callow Hill Sandpit, Virginia Water, Surrey, England
	Sand and Gravel Quarry, Wapsey's Wood, Gerrard's Cross, Buckinghamshire, England

Footnotes

George Pastell’s characters in Hammer films usually had very unpleasant ends. In this film, he is thrown alive on to a blazing funeral pyre; in “The Mummy” (1959), he has his back snapped in half by Christopher Lee; and, in “The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb” (1964), his brains are squashed to a pulp by Dickie Owen. Life must have seemed quiet indeed when he was called on to dub Andre Morell’s role in “She” (1965)!

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