Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense Episode 4
The Corvini Inheritance

© 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
ITV London Transmission Date: 15th October 1984
Storyline
The lonesome daily routine of a top-notch Security Chief of a London auction-house, who’s a bit nerdy and unstable and so completely obsessed with his work that he even spies on his neighbors from his home seeing it not as an invasion of privacy but as the natural extension of his job, is interrupted when a scared female neighbor rings his doorbell to complain of a ski-masked stalker.
He helps her secure her apartment and falls for her, but she rejects his advances. Meanwhile, the auction-house handles a valuable Renaissance collection which includes a necklace said to bear a deadly curse. It belonged to a medieval nobleman who was betrayed by his wife and killed by her lover, a member of the notorious medieval Corvini assassin family. The jewellery supposedly continued to bring only betrayal, murder and madness to those who later owned it.



Crew
Function | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
Click a link for more info | Credited | Uncredited | Total | ||||||
American Casting | William J Kenney | 45 | 29 May 1939 | 30 Dec 1992 | 53 | 12 | 12 | ||
American Casting | Daniel Travis | 12 | 12 | ||||||
Art Director | Carolyn Scott | 23 | 23 | ||||||
Ast. Art Director | Heather Armitage | 42 | 1942 | 81 | 6 | 6 | |||
Ast. Director | Ken Baker | 18 | 18 | ||||||
Ast. to Producer | Karen Woods | 6 | 6 | ||||||
Camera Operator | Ken Withers | 56 | 21 Aug 1928 | 10 Mar 2020 | 91 | 14 | 14 | ||
Casting Director | Lesley de Pettit | 48 | 1936 | 2002 | 66 | 14 | 14 | ||
Continuity | Lorely Farley | 45 | 1 Apr 1939 | 84 | 22 | 22 | |||
Costume Supervisor | Laura Nightingale | 35 | 35 | ||||||
Director | Gabrielle Beaumont | 42 | 7 Apr 1942 | 8 Oct 2022 | 80 | 1 | 1 | ||
Director of Photog. | Frank Watts BSc | 55 | 13 Jun 1929 | 5 Mar 1994 | 64 | 15 | 15 | ||
Dubbing Editor | Terry Poulton | 54 | 1930 | 1993 | 63 | 16 | 1 | 17 | |
Dubbing Mixer | Ernie Marsch | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Editor | Peter Weatherley GBFE | 54 | 1930 | Sep 2015 | 85 | 15 | 15 | ||
Executive Producer | Brian Lawrence | 64 | 1920 | 2004 | 84 | 25 | 25 | ||
Executive Story Editor | Don Houghton | 54 | 1930 | Jul 1991 | 61 | 20 | 20 | ||
Hairdresser | Betty Sherriff | 59 | 29 Sep 1925 | 2000 | 74 | 10 | 10 | ||
Make-up | Eddie Knight | 59 | 14 Mar 1925 | 27 Aug 1996 | 71 | 31 | 31 | ||
Music Composer | David Bedford | 47 | 4 Aug 1937 | 1 Oct 2011 | 74 | 3 | 3 | ||
Musical Supervisor | Philip Martell | 77 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 104 | 1 | 105 | |
Producer | Roy Skeggs | 50 | 1 Apr 1934 | 29 Dec 2018 | 84 | 45 | 1 | 46 | |
Production Accountant | Linda Nettleton | 35 | 1 Jan 1949 | 74 | 13 | 13 | |||
Production Accountant | Sheala Daniell | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Production Ast. | Sheila Collins | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Production Manager | Ron Jackson | 49 | 1935 | 1993 | 58 | 34 | 1 | 35 | |
Publicity | Jean Garioch | 56 | 1 Jan 1928 | 95 | 13 | 1 | 14 | ||
Screenplay | David Fisher | 55 | 13 Apr 1929 | 10 Jan 2018 | 88 | 3 | 3 | ||
Sound Recordist | John Bramall | 61 | 18 Aug 1923 | 13 Jun 2000 | 76 | 23 | 23 | ||
Still Photog. | John Jay | 63 | 14 Nov 1920 | 29 Apr 2005 | 84 | 13 | 22 | 35 | |
Story Editor | John Peacock | 39 | 1945 | 1 Jun 2017 | 72 | 13 | 13 |
Cast
Character | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
Credited | Uncredited | Total | |||||||
1st Female Model | Kirstie Pooley | 1 | 1 | ||||||
2nd Female Model | Ruth Burnett | 25 | 1 Jan 1959 | 64 | 1 | 1 | |||
Bob | Benedict Blythe | 32 | 1 Jan 1952 | 71 | 1 | 1 | |||
Brophy | Robert Swales | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Business Man | Martin Weedon | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Collier | Timothy Morand | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Elderly Lady | Mollie Maureen | 80 | 16 Aug 1904 | 26 Jan 1987 | 82 | 1 | 1 | ||
Eva Bailey | Jan Francis | 37 | 5 Aug 1947 | 76 | 1 | 1 | |||
Frank Lane | David McCallum | 51 | 19 Sep 1933 | 25 Sep 2023 | 90 | 1 | 1 | ||
Geoff – Male Model | Christian Fletcher | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Hammond | Terence Alexander | 61 | 11 Mar 1923 | 28 May 2009 | 86 | 2 | 2 | ||
Jogger | Peter Rumney | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Knowles | Stephen Yardley | 42 | 24 Mar 1942 | 81 | 1 | 1 | |||
Madame Roulier | Marianne Borgo | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Roulier | Paul Bacon | 57 | 21 Jan 1927 | 29 Mar 1995 | 68 | 1 | 1 | ||
T.V. Director | Ben Fietelson | 30 | 4 Jun 1954 | 69 | 1 | 1 | |||
Taxi Driver | Johnny Wade | 51 | 1 Jan 1933 | 90 | 1 | 1 | |||
Viner | Leonard Trolly | 66 | 1 Jan 1918 | 10 Feb 2005 | 87 | 1 | 1 | ||
Williams | Peter Attard | 40 | 1 Apr 1944 | 79 | 1 | 1 |
Footnotes
David McCallum played Illya Kuryakin in the MGM Television series “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.”.
Jan Francis starred the the BBC TV comedy series “Just Good Friends”.
Terence Alexander played Charlie Hungerford in the BBC TV series “Bergerac”.
Details were complied viewing the Episode.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection