Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense Episode 7

A Distant Scream

© 1984 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, All rights reserved

The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herin are fictitious and any similarity to the name, character or history of any person is entirely co-incidental.

Produced by Hammer Film Productions Limited entirely on location in The United Kingdom and Austria

ITV London Transmission Date: 5th November 1984

Storyline

Lying on his deathbed, an elderly man who has spent most of his life in prison for the murder of the woman he loved is granted a supernatural chance to go back to that fateful weekend and attempt to discover what really happened…

Crew


Function	Credited	Birth	Death	Age	Hammer Credits
Art Director	Carolyn Scott				23
Assistant Art Director	Peta Button	1 Jul 1941		79	4
Assistant Director	Ken Baker				18
Assistant to Producer	Karen Woods				6
Associate Camerman	Terry Cole				4
Associate Producer	John Hough	21 Nov 1941		79	6
Camera Operator	Ken Withers	21 Aug 1928		92	14
Continuity	Lorely Farley	1 Apr 1939		82	22
Costume Supervisor	Laura Nightingale				35
Director	John Hough	21 Nov 1941		79	6
Director of Photography	Brian West BSc	27 Apr 1928		92	8
Dubbing Editor	Terry Poulton GBFE	1930	1993	63	16
Dubbing Mixer	Ernie Marsch				13
Editor	Paul Weatherley GBFE	1930	1 Sep 2015	85	15
Executive Producer	Brian Lawrence	1920	2004	84	25
Executive Story Editor	Don Houghton	1930	1 Jul 1991	61	20
Hairdresser	Daphne Volmer	15 Aug 1928	11 Jan 2006	77	17
Make-up	Eddie Knight	14 Mar 1925	27 Aug 1996	71	31
Music Composed by	Paul Patterson	15 Jun 1947		73	8
Musical Supervisor	Philip Martell	6 Oct 1907	11 Aug 1993	85	103
Producer	Roy Skeggs	1 Apr 1934	29 Dec 2018	84	45
Production Accountant	Sheala Daniell				13
Production Accountant	Linda Nettleton				13
Production Assistant	Sheila Collins				13
Production Manager	Ron Jackson				34
Publicity	Jean Garioch	1928		93	13
Recorded at	Warwick Dubbing Theatre
Screenplay	Martin Worth	1 Nov 1926	1 Jul 2018	91	1
Sound Recordist	John Bramall	18 Aug 1923	13 Jun 2000	76	23
Still Photographer	John Jay	14 Nov 1920	29 Apr 2005	84	13

Cast


Character	Credited	Birth	Death	Age	Hammer Credits
Clifford	Stephen Grief	26 Aug 1944		76	1
Doctor	Bernard Horsefall	20 Nov 1930	29 Jan 2013	82	1
Gary	Stephan Chase	8 Feb 1945	27 Jun 2019	74	1
Michael / Harris	David Carradine	8 Dec 1936	6 Mar 2009	72	1
Mrs Kimble	Fanny Carby	2 Feb 1925	20 Sep 2002	77	1
Prison Officer	Edward Peel	1943		78	1
Robin	Ewan Stuart	8 Oct 1957		63	1
Rosemary Richardson	Stephanie Beacham	28 Feb 1948		73	2
Sarah	Lesley Dunlop	10 Mar 1956		65	1

Footnotes

Stephanie Beecham played alongside Peter Cushing as Jessica van Helsing, in Hammer’s Dracula A.D.72 (1972).
David Carradine played Caine in the popular Warner Brothers Television series Kung Fu (1972).

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