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	Birth	Death	Age	Hammer Credits
Art Director	William Kellner	30 Jul 1900	1 May 1996	95	7
Assistant Art Director	George Lack	1918	1 Jul 2014	96	7
Assistant Director	Bluey Hill	27 Nov 1911	1 Apr 1986	74	5
Camera Operator	Lou Lavelly	11 Mar 1934	26 May 1992	58	5
Casting	James Liggat	1920	28 Sep 1981	61	29
Continuity	Lilian Lee				1
Directed by	Michael Lindsay-Hogg	5 May 1940			1
Director of Photography	Arthur Lavis B.S.C.	14 Jun 1924	15 Jan 1999	74	6
Editor	Inman Hunter	25 Aug 1914	1 Jul 1986	71	5
Executive Consultant	Jack Fleischmann				17
Executive Producer	Joan Harrison	26 Jun 1907	14 Aug 1994	87	13
Hair Stylist	Elsie Alder	2 Nov 1905	1979	73	8
Main Title Theme by	Harry Robertson	19 Nov 1932	17 Jan 1996	63	26
Makeup	Ernest Taylor	31 Jan 1913	1 Apr 1987	74	8
Music Composed by	Norman Kaye	5 Jan 1929	12 May 2001	72	1
Music Supervisor	Philip Martell	6 Oct 1907	11 Aug 1993	85	103
Post – Production Consultant	Robert Mintz				17
Produced by	Anthony Hinds	18 Sep 1922	30 Sep 2013	91	84
Production Manager	John Oldknow	5 Mar 1927	10 Apr 1989	62	16
Sound Editors	Roy Baker G.B.F.E.	1 Jul 1927	1 Feb 2011	83	29
Sound Editors	Tony Pullen				6
Sound Recordist	John Streeter	1925	2012	87	8
Story Editor	John Gould		21 Apr 1974		19
Supervising Editor	James Needs G.B.F.E.	17 Oct 1919	2003	83	111
Titles by	M.A.P. International Limited			0
Unit Manager	Michael Brown				7
Wardrobe	Klara Kerpan	25 Oct 1909	1982	72	7
Written by	Robert Heverley				1

Cast


Character	Credited	Birth	Death	Age	Hammer Credits
June	Vera Miles	23 Aug 1929			1
Ken	Dermot Walsh	10 Sep 1924	26 Jun 2002	77	1
Matakitas	Leon Lissek	1927		94	2
Robert	John Junkin	29 Jan 1930	7 Mar 2006	76	1
Sylvia Ann	Gay Hamilton	29 Apr 1943			2
Tracy	Lyn Pinkney				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”.

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