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 | 82 | 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 | 4 Feb 2003 | 83 | 110 | |
Titles by | M.A.P. International Limited | |||||
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 | 92 | 1 | ||
Ken | Dermot Walsh | 10 Sep 1924 | 26 Jun 2002 | 77 | 1 | |
Matakitas | Leon Lissek | 19 Jan 1939 | 82 | 2 | ||
Robert | John Junkin | 29 Jan 1930 | 7 Mar 2006 | 76 | 1 | |
Sylvia Ann | Gay Hamilton | 29 Apr 1943 | 78 | 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