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	1.01.1942		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	01.04.1939		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	1.01.1949		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	01.01.1928		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	01.01.1959		64	1		1
Bob	Benedict Blythe	32	1 Jan 1952	01.01.1952		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	05.08.1947		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	24.03.1942		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	4.06.1954		69	1		1
Taxi Driver	Johnny Wade	51	1 Jan 1933	01.01.1933		90	1		1
Viner	Leonard Trolly	66	1 Jan 1918		10 Feb 2005	87	1		1
Williams	Peter Attard	40	1 Apr 1944	01.04.1944		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