The Indian Spirit Guide

A widow desperate to contact her late husband falls prey to a con artist out to expose phoney spiritualists.

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 30th June 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	Roy Stannard	Yes	38	1931		1 Mar 2008	77	10		10
Assistant Art Director	Graham Parker	Yes	38	1931		7 Oct 1992	61	8		8
Assistant Director	John Elton	Yes						4		4
Camera Operator	Moray Grant	Yes	51	13 Nov 1917		17 Sep 1977	59	29		29
Casting	James Liggat	Yes	49	1920		28 Sep 1981	61	29	2	31
Continuity	Estelle Stewart	Yes						8		8
Director	Roy Ward Baker	Yes	52	19 Dec 1916		5 Oct 2010	93	8		8
Director of Photography	Kenneth Talbot BSc	Yes	49	17 Jan 1920		May 1993	73	9		9
Editor	Brian Freemantle	Yes	35	1934	01/01/1934		91			4
Executive Consultant	Jack Fleischmann	Yes						17		17
Executive Producer	Joan Harrison	Yes	62	26 Jun 1907		14 Aug 1994	87	15		15
Focus Puller	Bob Jordan	No							29	29
Hair Stylist	Mibs Parker	Yes						8		8
Main Title Theme	Harry Robertson	Yes	36	19 Nov 1932		17 Jan 1996	63	26		26
Make-up	Bill Partleton	Yes	58	12 Jan 1911		Apr 1975	64	6		6
Music Composer	Basil Kirchin	Yes	41	8 Aug 1927		18 Jun 2005	77	2		2
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
Sound Editor	Brian Hickin	Yes	30	7 Jun 1939		30 Oct 2023	84	10		10
Sound Editor	Roy Baker	Yes	41	1 Jul 1927		1 Feb 2011	83	29	1	30
Sound Recordist	Stan Smart	Yes						8		8
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
Unit Manager	Christopher Neame	Yes	26	24 Dec 1942		12 Jun 2011		15	9	24
Wardrobe	Mary Gibson	Yes						13		13
Written	Robert Bloch	Yes	52	5 Apr 1917		23 Sep 1994	77	2		2
CAST
Bright Arrow	Julian Sherrier	Yes	40	21 Jun 1929		Aug 2012	83	1		1
Chardur	Marne Maitland	Yes	54	18 Dec 1914		Mar 1992	77	9		9
Housekeeper	Fanny Carby	No	44	2 Feb 1925		20 Sep 2002	77	1	2	3
Jerry Crown	Tom Adams	Yes	31	9 Mar 1938		11 Dec 2014	76	2		2
Joyce	Tracy Reed	Yes	27	21 Sep 1941		2 May 2012	70	1		1
Leona Gillings	Julie Harris	Yes	43	2 Dec 1925		24 Aug 2013	87	1		1
Man at Seance	Frank Williams	No	37	2 Jul 1931		26 Jun 2022	90		2	2
Mixx Sarah Prinn	Catherine Lacey	Yes	65	6 May 1904		20 Sep 1979	75	3		3
Mrs Hubbard	Dennis Ramsden	Yes	50	7 Nov 1918		31 Mar 2018	99	1		1

Footnotes

Marne Maitland’s other appearances for Hammer were, Break in the Circle (1955), The Camp on Blood Island (1958), I Only Arsked (1958), The Stranglers of Bombay (1959), The Terror of the Tongs (1961), The Phantom of the Opera (1962) and The Reptile (1966).

Frank Williams, best known for playing clergy in, amongst others, Dad’s Army and You Rang M’Lord, appears uncredited here.

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