Journey to the Unknown Episode 14

The Beckoning Fair One

Hammer Film Productions
Copyright © MCMLXVIII
Filmed at Intertel Studios by Addavision
Distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox Television
William Self – In charge

UK Release Date 23rd July 1969

Storyline

A young artist fall under the spell of a coquette – who has been dead for 25 years.

Crew


Function	Credited	Age at Release	Birth		Death	Age	Hammer Productions
	Click a link for more info						Credited	Uncredited	Total
Art Director	Roy Stannard	38	1931		Mar 2008	77	10		10
Ast. Art Director	Graham Parker	38	1 Jan 1931		7 Oct 1992	61	8		8
Ast. Director	John Elton						1		1
Based on a story by	Oliver Onions	95	13 Nov 1873		9 Apr 1961	87	1		1
Casting	James Liggat	49	1 Jan 1920		28 Sep 1981	61	29	2	31
Continuity	Estelle Stewart						8		8
Director	Don Chaffey	51	5 Aug 1917		13 Nov 1990	73	6		6
Director of Photog.	Kenneth Talbot BSc	49	17 Jan 1920		May 1993	73	9		9
Editor	Brian Freemantle						4		4
Executive Consultant	Jack Fleischmann						17		17
Executive Producer	Joan Harrison	62	26 Jun 1907		14 Aug 1994	87	13	1	14
Hair Stylist	Mibs Parker						8		8
Main Title Theme	Harry Robertson	36	19 Nov 1932		17 Jan 1996	63	26		26
Make-up	Elisabeth Blattner	54	14 Oct 1914		1986	71	3		3
Music Composer	Harry Robertson	36	19 Nov 1932		17 Jan 1996	63	26		26
Music Supervisor	Philip Martell	61	6 Oct 1907		11 Aug 1993	85	104	1	105
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	42	Jul 1927		Feb 2011	83	29	1	30
Sound Editor	Brian Hickin	30	7 Jun 1939	07.06.1939		83	10		10
Sound Recordist	Stan Smart						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
Teleplay	William Woods	53	1916		1998	82	1		1
Teleplay	John Gould				21 Apr 1974		19		19
Unit Manager	Christopher Neame	26	24 Dec 1942		12 Jun 2011	68	15	9	24
Wardrobe	Mary Gibson						13		13

Cast


Character	Credited	Age at Release	Birth		Death	Age	Hammer Productions
							Credited	Uncredited	Total
Crichton	Clive Francis	23	26 Jun 1946	26.06.1946		76	1		1
Derek Wilson	John Fraser	38	18 Mar 1931		7 Nov 2020	89	1		1
Jon Holden	Robert Lansing	41	5 Jun 1928		23 Oct 1994	66	1		1
Kit Beaumont	Gabrielle Drake	25	30 Mar 1944	30.03.1944		78	1		1
Mr. Barrett	Larry Noble	54	13 Dec 1914		9 Sep 1993	78	3		3
Mrs Barrett	Gretchen Franklyn	58	7 Jul 1911		11 Jul 2005	94	1		1
Uncredited
Police Constable	David Simeon	26	17 May 1943	17.05.1943		79		1	1
Police Sergeant	Victor Brooks	50	11 Nov 1918		19 Jan 2000	81	1	2	3
With	Warwick Sims	24	5 Nov 1944		1 Oct 2005	60		1	1
With	Tracy Crisp	25	15 Apr 1944	15.04.1944		78		1	1
With	Angela Vincent							1	1
With	Jay Bawden							1	1

Footnotes

Gabrielle Drake played Jill Hammond in BBC TV’s “The Brothers”

Larry Noble played a postman in Hammer’s “Fruther up the Creek” (1958)

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