Opening titles:- “For hundreds of years there existed in India a perverted religious sect dedicated to the wanton destruction of human life…..so secret was this savage cult that even the British East India Company, rulers of the country at the time, was unaware of their existence…..until…..in 1829…..” Captain Lewis suspects that the disappearance of a host of local people may be connected to a secretive cult and, despite the incredulity of his fellow officers, makes it his mission to discover the truth.
Production Details
A Hammer Film production in association with Kenneth Hyman released by Columbia Pictures
Copyright MCMLlX by Hammer Film Productions Ltd. – All rights reserled
MPAA Approved Certificate
The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herein are fictitious and any similarity to the name, character, or history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional
RCA Sound Recording
Produced at Bray Studios
Black and White 80 mins Megascope
Filming Began: 6th June 1959
UK Release: 18th January 1960
Studio:
Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire
Locations:
Callow Hill Sandpit, Virginia Water, Surrey
Sand and Gravel Quarry, Wapsey’s Wood, Gerrard’s Cross, Buckinghamshire
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Original Poster
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Footnotes
George Pastell’s characters in Hammer films usually had very unpleasant ends. In this film, he is thrown alive on to a blazing funeral pyre; in “The Mummy” (1959), he has his back snapped in half by Christopher Lee; and, in “The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb” (1964), his brains are squashed to a pulp by Dickie Owen. Life must have seemed quiet indeed when he was called on to dub Andre Morell’s role in “She” (1965)!