Poor Butterfly

A strange costume ball is the setting where a young woman dressed as a butterfly desperately wants to leave before something ominous happens.

Trailer by The Hammer Graveyard

Production Details

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

UK Transmission date 19th May 1969

Locations:
MGM Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire – Studio

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Cast & Crew

CREW	NAME	CREDITED	AGE AT RELEASE	BIRTH	Hidden	DEATH	AGE	CREDITS	UNCREDITED	TOTAL HAMMER
Art Director	William Kellner	Yes	68	30 Jul 1900		1 May 1996	95	7		7
Assistant Art Director	George Lack	Yes	51	1918		1 Jul 2014	96	7		7
Assistant Director	Derek Whitehurst	Yes	40	2 Oct 1928		6 Dec 2005	77	16		16
Casting	James Liggat	Yes	49	1920		28 Sep 1981	61	29	2	31
Continuity	Lillian Lee	Yes						6		6
Director	Alan Gibson	Yes	31	28 Apr 1938		5 Jul 1987	49	8		8
Director of Photography	Arthur Lavis B.S.C.	Yes	44	14 Jun 1924		15 Jan 1999	74	6		6
Editor	Ronald J. Fagan	Yes	41	6 Apr 1928		21 Oct 2000	72	4		4
Executive Consultant	Jack Fleischmann	Yes						17		17
Executive Producer	Joan Harrison	Yes	61	26 Jun 1907		14 Aug 1994	87	15		15
Focus Puller	Bob Jordan	No							29	29
Hair Stylist	Elsie Alder	Yes	63	2 Nov 1905		1979	73	8		8
Main Title Theme	Harry Robertson	Yes	36	19 Nov 1932		17 Jan 1996	63	26		26
Make-up	Ernest Taylor	Yes	56	31 Jan 1913		Apr 1987	74	8		8
Music Composer	David Lindup	Yes	41	10 May 1928		7 Jan 1992	63	6		6
Music Supervisor	Philip Martell	Yes	61	6 Oct 1907		11 Aug 1993	85	104	1	105
Post Production Consultant	Robert Mintz	Yes						17		17
Producer	Anthony Hinds	Yes	46	18 Sep 1922		30 Sep 2013	91	87	3	90
Production Manager	John Oldknow	Yes	42	5 Mar 1927		10 Apr 1989	62	16		16
Set Decoration	Tim Abady	No	22	20 Nov 1946			78		2	2
Sound Editor	Roy Baker	Yes	41	1 Jul 1927		1 Feb 2011	83	29	1	30
Sound Editor	Tony Pullen	Yes						7		7
Sound Recordist	John Streeter	Yes	44	1925		2012	87	8		8
Story by	William Abney	Yes	48	7 Jan 1921		9 Aug 1997	76	3		3
Story Editor	John Gould	Yes	33	1936		21 Apr 1974	38	19		19
Supervising Editor	James Needs	Yes	49	17 Oct 1919		4 Feb 2003	83	113	1	114
Teleplay	Jeremy Paul	Yes	29	29 Jul 1939		3 May 2011	71	2		2
Unit Manager	Michael Brown	Yes						7		7
Wardrobe	Klara Kerpin	Yes	59	25 Oct 1909		1982	72	7		7
CAST
Aviator	Donald Gee	Yes	31	28 Sep 1937		14 Jan 2022	84	1		1
Barbara	Maggie Don	Yes	26	2 Jan 1943		30 Jul 2022	79	1		1
Ben Loker	Bernard Lee	Yes	61	10 Jan 1908		16 Jan 1981	73	2		2
Butler	Michael Nightingale	Yes	46	6 Oct 1922		8 May 1999	76	2	1	3
Diana	Marty Cruickshank	Yes	26	1943	01/01/1943		82	1		1
Friar Tuck	Norman Chappell	Yes	43	31 Dec 1925		21 Jul 1983	57	3		3
Guest	Martin Lyder	No	46	30 Sep 1922		12 Jan 2003	80		4	4
Jimmy McNeil	Roy Hanlon	Yes	30	30 Jun 1938		19 Apr 2005	66	1		1
Lady Hamilton	Linda Cole	Yes						1		1
March Hare	Patrick Desmond	Yes	61	10 Sep 1907		28 Aug 1976	68	1		1
Mrs Loker	Susan Richards	Yes	70	6 Aug 1898		24 Dec 1986	88	1		1
Nelson	Antony Webb	Yes	35	1934		2018	84	1		1
Queen Victoria	Fay Compton	Yes	74	18 Sep 1894		12 Dec 1978	84	1		1
Red Queen	Ann Lancaster	Yes	49	5 May 1920		31 Oct 1970	50	1		1
Robert Sawyer	Edward Fox	Yes	32	13 Apr 1937			88	1		1
Rose	Susan Brodrick	Yes	24	27 Mar 1945			80	3		3
Steven Miller	Chad Everett	Yes	31	11 Jun 1937		24 Jul 2012	75	1		1

Footnotes

Fay Compton reprised her role as Queen Victoria from The Prime Minister (1941).

Susan Brodrick went on to appear in two Hammer films, as Susan Spencer in Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde, and Teri in Countess Dracula , both 1971.

Marty Cruikshank is the daughter of respected Scottish actor Andrew Cruikshank, who appeared in Hammer’s 1959 film Stranglers of Bombay.

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