The Silent Scream

An elderly pet shop owner, who is secretly a former Nazi concentration camp guard, is intent on continuing experiments on human victims. His plan is to create prisons with no bars, for which he captures a former prison inmate and his wife.

Production Details

The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herin are fictitious and any similarity to the name, character or history of any person is entirely co-incidental.

Produced by Hammer Film Productions Limited.

UK Transmission Date: 25 Oct 1980

Locations:

Broad Street, Chesham, Buckinghamshire – The Central Pet Shop
Pump Lane South, Little Marlow, Buckinghamshire – Chuck and Annie’s house
Park Parade Centre, Hazlemere, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire – Chuck and Annie leave the supermarket

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Cast & Crew

Crew & Cast – Verified complete

CREW	NAME	CREDITED	AGE AT RELEASE	BIRTH	Hidden	DEATH	AGE	CREDITS	UNCREDITED	TOTAL HAMMER
Assistant Art Director	Bob Bell	Yes	62	21 Mar 1918		6 Jun 2009	91	13		13
Assistant Art Director	Richard Rooker	Yes	36	1944	01/01/1944		81	13		13
Assistant Director	Ken Baker	Yes						23		23
Camera Operator	Neil Binney	Yes	49	1 Jun 1931			94	17	10	27
Casting Director	Eileen Garstka	Yes						13		13
Continuity	Marjorie Lavelly	Yes	59	12 Apr 1921		22 Sep 2006	85	8		8
Continuity	Lorely Farley	Yes	41	1 Apr 1939			86	23		23
Costume Supervisor	Laura Nightingale	Yes						35		35
Designer	Carolyn Scott	Yes						23		23
Director	Alan Gibson	Yes	42	28 Apr 1938		5 Jul 1987	49	8		8
Director of Photography	Frank Watts BSc	Yes	51	13 Jun 1929		5 Mar 1994	64	16		16
Dubbing Editor	Bryan Tilling	Yes	51	1929		19 Feb 2011	82	13		13
Dubbing Editor	Jack Knight	Yes	50	9 Aug 1930		7 Nov 1993	63	15		15
Dubbing Editor	Peter Best	Yes						7		7
Dubbing Mixer	Otto Snel	Yes	42	7 Dec 1937		18 Dec 2022	85	11	4	15
Editor	Bob Dearberg	Yes	41	3 Feb 1939		8 May 2017	78	10	2	12
Executive Producer	Brian Lawrence	Yes	60	1920		2004	84	26		26
Executive Producer	David Reid	Yes	42	1 Mar 1938			87	13		13
Gaffer	Steve Birtles	Yes	65	12 Nov 1914		2003	88	14	15	29
Hairdresser	Daphne Volmer	Yes	52	15 Aug 1928		11 Jan 2006	77	17		17
Make-up	Eddie Knight	Yes	55	14 Mar 1925		27 Aug 1996	71	31		31
Music Composer	Leonard Salzedo	Yes	59	24 Sep 1921		6 May 2000	78	7	1	8
Music Editor	Marcel Durham	Yes	60	21 Jun 1920		Apr 2000	79	13		13
Musical Supervisor	Philip Martell	Yes	73	6 Oct 1907		11 Aug 1993	85	104	1	105
Presenter	Jack Gill	Yes	61	1919				13		13
Producer	Roy Skeggs	Yes	46	1 Apr 1934		29 Dec 2018	84	45	2	47
Production Assistant	Margaret Nicholas	Yes						13		13
Production Assistant	Mike Widd	Yes						13		13
Production Manager	Ron Jackson	Yes	45	1935		1993	58	34	1	35
Production Runner	Callum McDougall	No							13	13
Screenplay	Francis Essex	Yes	51	29 Mar 1929		5 Mar 2009	79	1		1
Sound Recordist	John Bramall	Yes	57	18 Aug 1923		13 Jun 2000	76	23		23
Special Effects	Ian Scoones	Yes	40	20 Feb 1940		20 Jan 2010	69	13	9	22
Story Editor	Anthony Read	Yes	45	21 Apr 1935		21 Nov 2015	80	14		14
Title Designer	Chris Wood	Yes						13		13
CAST
Aldridge	Antony Carrick	Yes	48	16 Feb 1932		2 Nov 2024	92	1		1
Annie	Elaine Donnelly	Yes	32	22 Mar 1948			77	1		1
Chuck	Brian Cox	Yes	34	1 Jun 1946			79	1		1
Lionel	Terry Kinsella	Yes						1		1
Martin Blueck	Peter Cushing	Yes	67	26 May 1913		11 Aug 1994	81	24	1	25
Police Officer	Robin Browne	Yes						1		1

Footnotes

This was Peter Cushing’s final performance for Hammer.

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