Journey to the Unknown Episode 3
Matakitas is Coming

Hammer Film Productions
Copyright © MCMLXVIII
Filmed at Intertel Studios by Addavision
Distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox Television
William Self – In charge
UK Release Date 28th April 1969
Storyline
Librarians are stalked by a psychotic strangler who continues his murder spree from beyond the grave.



Crew
Function | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
Click a link for more info | Credited | Uncredited | Total | ||||||
Art Director | William Kellner | 68 | 30 Jul 1900 | May 1996 | 95 | 7 | 7 | ||
Ast. Art Director | George Lack | 51 | 1918 | Jul 2014 | 96 | 7 | 7 | ||
Ast. Director | Bluey Hill | 57 | 27 Nov 1911 | Apr 1986 | 74 | 5 | 5 | ||
Camera Operator | Lou Lavelly | 35 | 11 Mar 1934 | 26 May 1992 | 58 | 5 | 5 | ||
Casting | James Liggat | 49 | 1 Jan 1920 | 28 Sep 1981 | 61 | 29 | 2 | 31 | |
Continuity | Lillian Lee | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Director | Michael Lindsay-Hogg | 28 | 5 May 1940 | 82 | 1 | 1 | |||
Director of Photog. | Arthur Lavis B.S.C. | 44 | 14 Jun 1924 | 15 Jan 1999 | 74 | 6 | 6 | ||
Editor | Inman Hunter | 54 | 25 Aug 1914 | Jul 1986 | 71 | 5 | 5 | ||
Executive Consultant | Jack Fleischmann | 17 | 17 | ||||||
Executive Producer | Joan Harrison | 61 | 26 Jun 1907 | 14 Aug 1994 | 87 | 13 | 1 | 14 | |
Hair Stylist | Elsie Alder | 63 | 2 Nov 1905 | 1979 | 73 | 8 | 8 | ||
Make-up | Ernest Taylor | 56 | 31 Jan 1913 | Apr 1987 | 74 | 8 | 8 | ||
Music Composer | Norman Kaye | 40 | 5 Jan 1929 | 12 May 2001 | 72 | 1 | 1 | ||
Music Supervisor | Philip Martell | 61 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 104 | 1 | 105 | |
Music Title Theme | Harry Robertson | 36 | 19 Nov 1932 | 17 Jan 1996 | 63 | 26 | 26 | ||
Post – Production Consultant | Robert Mintz | 17 | 17 | ||||||
Producer | Anthony Hinds | 46 | 18 Sep 1922 | 30 Sep 2013 | 91 | 84 | 1 | 85 | |
Production Manager | John Oldknow | 42 | 5 Mar 1927 | 10 Apr 1989 | 62 | 16 | 16 | ||
Sound Editor | Roy Baker | 41 | Jul 1927 | Feb 2011 | 83 | 29 | 1 | 30 | |
Sound Editor | Tony Pullen | 6 | 6 | ||||||
Sound Recordist | John Streeter | 44 | 1925 | 2012 | 86 | 8 | 8 | ||
Story Editor | John Gould | 21 Apr 1974 | 19 | 19 | |||||
Supervising Editor | James Needs | 49 | 17 Oct 1919 | 4 Feb 2003 | 83 | 110 | 1 | 111 | |
Unit Manager | Michael Brown | 7 | 7 | ||||||
Wardrobe | Klara Kerpin | 59 | 25 Oct 1909 | 1982 | 72 | 7 | 7 | ||
Written | Robert Heverley | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Uncredited | |||||||||
Foucs Puller | Bob Jordan | 16 | 16 | ||||||
Second Ast. Director | Nicholas Granby | 23 | 19 Nov 1945 | 77 | 6 | 6 |
Cast
Character | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
Credited | Uncredited | Total | |||||||
June | Vera Miles | 39 | 23 Aug 1929 | 93 | 1 | 1 | |||
Ken | Dermot Walsh | 44 | 10 Sep 1924 | 26 Jun 2002 | 77 | 1 | 1 | ||
Matakitas | Leon Lissek | 30 | 19 Jan 1939 | 13 Jan 2022 | 82 | 2 | 2 | ||
Robert | John Junkin | 39 | 29 Jan 1930 | 7 Mar 2006 | 76 | 1 | 1 | ||
Sylvia Ann | Gay Hamilton | 25 | 29 Apr 1943 | 79 | 2 | 2 | |||
Tracy | Lyn Pinkney | 1 | 1 |
Footnotes
Fame came to Vera Miles when she attracted the attention of two master directors, Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford. Ford cast her in the classic western The Searchers (1956) and Hitchcock, who put her under personal contract and hailed her as his “new Grace Kelly”, paired her with the great Henry Fonda in The Wrong Man (1956). Hitchcock cast her in the potentially star-making role of Judy Barton in Vertigo (1958), but Miles withdrew from the film when she became pregnant. Hitchcock gave Miles a supporting role in another masterpiece Psycho (1960).
Leon Lissek played the Sergeant of Bailiffs in Hammers 1971 film “Countess Dracula”.
Dermot Walsh was at one time married to Hammer star Hazel Court.
Details were complied viewing the Episode.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection