The Curse of the Werewolf

Spain: A wandering beggar falls foul of the sadistic Marques Siniestro and is flung into a dungeon, where he remains for years, virtually forgotten. Then a young mute servant girl also upsets the Marques and, to teach her a lesson, she is put in the cell with the beggar, who rapes her and promptly dies. The girl kills the Marques and escapes, but now she is pregnant by the beggar. It seems that her baby will be born on Christmas Day and local legend has it that there is only one fate in store for an unwanted child conceived in such circumstances and born on the Lord’s birthday…

Production Details

A Hammer Film production released by Universal Pictures
Copyright MCMLXI by Universal Pictures Company Inc. – All rights reserved
MPAA Approved Certificate
The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herein are fictitious and any similarity to the names characters or history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional

RCA Sound Recording
Produced at Bray Studios England
Technicolor 88 mins

Filming Began: 12th October 1960
UK Release: 1st May 1961

Studio:
Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire

Locations:
Black Park, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England
Callow Hill Sandpit, Virginia Water, Surrey
Sand and Gravel Quarry, Wapseys Wood, Gerrard’s Cross, Buckinghamshire

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Cast & Crew

Red = Uncredited


Crew	Name	Age at Release	Birth	Hidden	Death	Age	Hammer Credited	Hammer Uncredited	Total Hammer
Art Direction	Thomas Goswell	70	28 Mar 1891		1 Jan 1982	90		5	5
Art Director	Don Mingaye	32	1 Jan 1929		8 Nov 2017	88	26	14	40
Assistant Director	John Peverall	30	1 Jan 1931		3 Oct 2009	78	21		21
Associate Producer	Anthony Nelson-Keys	49	13 Nov 1911		19 Mar 1985	73	41		41
Based on the novel "The Werewolf of Paris" by	Guy Endore	60	4 Jul 1900		12 Feb 1970	69	1		1
Camera Operator	Len Harris	44	19 May 1916		21 Feb 1995	78	52	1	53
Casting	Stuart Lyons	33	1 Jan 1928		23 Feb 1998	70	8		8
Charge-hand Props	Peter Allchorne	36	01 Jan 1925	01.01.1925		99		9	9
Clapper Loader	Alan McDonald	23	01 Jan 1938	01.01.1938		86		14	14
Composer: Stock Music	Leonard Salzedo	39	24 Sep 1921		6 May 2000	78	7	1	8
Construction Manager	Arthur Banks						18	29	47
Continuity	Tilly Day	58	1 Jan 1903		1 Jan 1994	91	12	1	13
Director	Terence Fisher	57	23 Feb 1904		18 Jun 1980	76	31		31
Director of Photography	Arthur Grant BSc	46	1 Jan 1915		1 Jan 1972	57	31		31
Editor	Alfred Cox	36	1 Jan 1925		1 Jan 2005	80	21	4	25
Executive Producer	Michael Carreras	33	21 Dec 1927		19 Apr 1994	66	82	5	87
Focus Puller	Harry Oakes	40	16 Jan 1921		11 Dec 2012	91		53	53
Gargoyles	Margaret Robinson	41	31 Jan 1920		3 Oct 2016	96		4	4
Hair Stylist	Frieda Steiger	57	29 Dec 1903		19 Aug 1993	89	28		28
Make-up	Colin Garde	45	16 Jul 1915		1 Dec 1990	75	1	3	4
Make-up Artist	Roy Ashton	52	16 Apr 1909		10 Jan 1995	85	36	4	40
Music Composed & Conducted by	Benjamin Frankel	55	31 Jan 1906		12 Feb 1973	67	3		3
Producer	Anthony Hinds	38	18 Sep 1922		30 Sep 2013	91	84	1	85
Production Designer	Bernard Robinson	48	28 Jul 1912		2 Mar 1970	57	46	3	49
Production Manager	Clifford Parkes	34	1 Jan 1927		1 Jan 2014	87	12		12
Screenplay	Anthony Hinds	38	18 Sep 1922		30 Sep 2013	91	84	1	85
Second Assistant Director	Dominic Fulford	41	19 Aug 1919		23 Apr 2007	87	1	5	6
Set Rigger	Ronald Lenoir	37	1924		1998	74		4	4
Sound Editor	Alban Streeter	31	01 Jan 1930	01.01.1930		94	7		7
Sound Recordist	Jock May	56	1 Jan 1905		8 Jan 1991	86	30	1	31
Special Effects	Les Bowie	47	10 Nov 1913		27 Jan 1979	65	32	11	43
Still Photographer	Tom Edwards				1999			26	26
Stunts	Jack Cooper	38	1 Jan 1923		1 Jan 2010	87	1	5	6
Stunts	Joe Dunne	25	27 Oct 1935		14 Jan 2022	86		2	2
Supervising Editor	James Needs	41	17 Oct 1919		4 Feb 2003	83	110	1	111
Wardrobe Mistress	Molly Arbuthnot	52	19 Dec 1908		31 Oct 2001	92	48	4	52

Cast	Name	Age at Release	Birth	Hidden	Death	Age	Hammer Credited	Hammer Uncredited	Total Hammer
1st Customer	Rodney Burke	28	13 Jul 1932	13.07.1932		91		4	4
2nd Customer	Alan Page	38	3 May 1922		5 Jul 1987	65		1	1
2nd Footman	Gordon Whiting	42	9 May 1918		21 Feb 2002	83		1	1
3rd Customer	Richard Golding							1	1
Alfredo	Clifford Evans	49	17 Feb 1912		9 Jun 1985	73	2		2
Angry Mob	Hubert Hill							3	3
Angry Villager (Bottom Left) in Assembled Mob	Fred Wood	39	26 Oct 1921		25 Jan 2003	81		19	19
Another Farmer	Stephen Scott	33	8 Feb 1928	8.02.1928		96		1	1
Bar Customer	John Adams							4	4
Bearded Customer	Francis De Wolff	48	7 Jan 1913		18 Apr 1984	71	3	1	4
Beggar	Richard Wordsworth	46	19 Jan 1915		21 Nov 1993	78	4		4
Cantina Patron	Victor Harrington	51	27 Aug 1909		23 Jul 1980	70		7	7
Cheeky Farmer	Max Butterfield	29	10 Jun 1931		1 Jan 1991	59	2	1	3
Chef	Charles Lamb	60	20 Nov 1900		19 Mar 1989	88	4		4
Cook	Emille Stemmler	50	1911					6	6
Cristina	Catherine Feller	22	01 Jan 1939	01.01.1939		85	1		1
Dominique	George Woodbridge	54	16 Feb 1907		31 Mar 1973	66	9	1	10
Don Enrique	Peter Sallis	40	1 Feb 1921		2 Jun 2017	96	2		2
Don Fernando	Ewen Solon	43	7 Sep 1917		7 Jul 1985	67	5	1	6
Farmer in Cantina	Michael Peake	42	13 Oct 1918		1 Apr 1967	48	2	3	5
Footman	Desmond Llewelyn	46	12 Sep 1914		19 Dec 1999	85	2	2	4
Gaoler	Denis Shaw	40	7 Apr 1921		28 Feb 1971	49	4	3	7
Gardener	Frank Sieman	52	7 Aug 1908		9 Mar 1992	83	1	1	2
Irate Farmer	Howard Lang	50	20 Mar 1911		11 Dec 1989	78		2	2
Isabel	Joy Webster	27	01 Jan 1934	01.01.1934		90	2		2
Jose	Martin Matthews						1		1
Landlord	Hamlyn Benson	50	1 Jan 1911		11 Feb 1968	57		1	1
Leon	Oliver Reed	23	13 Feb 1938		2 May 1999	61	9		9
Marques Siniestro	Anthony Dawson	44	18 Oct 1916		8 Jan 1992	75	1		1
Marquesa	Josephine Llewellyn						1		1
Midwife	Kitty Atwoood	59	28 Jun 1901		1 Jan 1991	89		2	2
Official	Ray Browne							1	1
Old Soak	Michael Ripper	48	27 Jan 1913		28 Jun 2000	87	34	2	36
Page	Michael Lewis							1	1
Patron	Bill Rooney							3	3
Pepe Valiente	Warren Mitchell	35	14 Jan 1926		14 Nov 2015	89	4	1	5
Policeman	Alister Williamson	42	17 Jun 1918		19 May 1999	80	3	1	4
Policeman	John Bennett	32	8 May 1928		11 Apr 2005	76		2	2
Priest	John Gabriel	46	27 Sep 1914		28 May 1998	83	1		1
Rico Gomez	David Conville	31	4 Jun 1929		24 Nov 2018	89	2		2
Rosa Valiente	Anne Blake	52	4 Nov 1908		27 Jan 2000	91	3		3
Senora Zumara	Serafina Di Leo	48	7 May 1912		23 Oct 2007	95	1		1
Servant Girl	Yvonne Romain	23	17 Feb 1938	17.02.1938		86	3		3
Servant Girl as Child	Loraine Carvana							1	1
Teresa	Hira Talfrey	34	14 Sep 1926		3 Oct 2011	85	1		1
Vera	Sheala Brennan	30	01 Jan 1931	01.01.1931		93	1		1
Villager	George Spence							4	4
Villager	Jimmy Charters							7	7
Young Leon	Justin Walters	9	1 Jan 1952		1 Jan 1978	26	1		1
Yvonne	Renny Lister	26	24 May 1934	24.05.1934		89	1		1

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Footnotes

Before this film was made, Hammer planned to make one about the Spanish Inquisition, but there were rumours that the Catholic Office would take a very dim view of such a movie and try to have it banned. The project was therefore abandoned, but not before Bernard Robinson’s sets had been constructed. Not a company to waste resources, Hammer transferred the action of Guy Endore’s novel “The Werewolf of Paris” to Spain and Anthony Hinds wrote the script for “The Curse of the Werewolf”, the first of many screenplays written by him under the pseudonym John Elder.

Welsh actor Clifford Evans returned to Hammer in 1963 to star as the vampire-killer in “The Kiss of the Vampire”.

1961 BBFC Cert. “X"

Production Details

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Cast & Crew

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Footnotes