The Killing Bottle

An aspiring composer is unaware that his unscrupulous manager plans to take control of his estate.

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 9th July 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	Derek Whitehurst	Yes	40	2 Oct 1928		6 Dec 2005	77	16		16
Based upon a story by	L.P. Hartley	Yes	73	30 Dec 1895		13 Dec 1972	76	1		1
Casting	Lesley de Pettit	Yes	33	1936		2002	66	15		15
Continuity	Estelle Stewart	Yes						8		8
Director	John Gibson	Yes	43	15 Nov 1925				1		1
Director of Photography	Kenneth Talbot BSc	Yes	49	17 Jan 1920		May 1993	73	9		9
Editor	Inman Hunter	Yes	54	25 Aug 1914		1 Jul 1986	71	5		5
Executive Consultant	Jack Fleischmann	Yes						17		17
Executive Producer	Joan Harrison	Yes	62	26 Jun 1907		14 Aug 1994	87	15		15
Executive Producer	Norman Lloyd	Yes	54	8 Nov 1914		11 May 2021	106	11		11
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	George Partleton	Yes	60	21 Jan 1909		17 Oct 1992	83	6		6
Music Composer	Bernard Ebbinghouse	Yes	42	18 Mar 1927		24 Feb 2012	84	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	John Beaton	Yes	40	1929		14 Jan 2005	76	2	1	3
Sound Editor	Roy Baker	Yes	42	1 Jul 1927		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
Stunt Double	Chris Webb	Yes	32	16 Mar 1937		27 Nov 2023	86	1		1
Supervising Editor	James Needs	Yes	49	17 Oct 1919		4 Feb 2003	83	113	1	114
Teleplay	Julian Bond	Yes	38	8 Dec 1930		14 Jan 2012	81	1		1
Unit Manager	Christopher Neame	Yes	26	24 Dec 1942		12 Jun 2011	68	15	9	24
Wardrobe	Mary Gibson	Yes						13		13
CAST
Hodgson	John Rudling	Yes	61	31 Aug 1907		18 Dec 1983	76	1		1
Jimmy	Barry Evans	Yes	26	18 Jun 1943		11 Feb 1997	53	1		1
Policeman	Eddie Byrne	Yes	58	31 Jan 1911		21 Aug 1981	70	2		2
Randolph	William Marlowe	Yes	38	25 Jul 1930		31 Jan 2003	72	1		1
Rollo	Roddy McDowell	Yes	40	17 Sep 1928		3 Oct 1998	70	1		1
Vera	Ingrid Brett	Yes	22	1947	01/01/1947		78	2		2

Footnotes

Barry Evans was known for Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968), London Weekend Television sitcoms Doctor in the House (1969) and Mind Your Language (1977), plus The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1993). He died on February 11, 1997 in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England. The circumstances of his early death remain a mystery; he was found dead in his bungalow in Leicestershire, with bottles of whiskey and aspirins nearby. A youth was charged with his murder, but acquitted on lack of evidence. A local coroner later recorded an open verdict.

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