The estate agent Norman Shenley hates his old wife Emily Shenley and wants to divorce her to marry his secretary Lolly. When a new client wants to sell an old and isolated mansion, Norman begins to have odd nightmares, and he becomes confused between reality and dream. When Norman awakes, a surprise waits for him.
Production Details
Jack Gill Presents “Hammer House of Horror” Copyright MCMLXXX
Chips Productions Limited. All Rights Reserved
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.
A Jack Gill Presentation for Chips Productions Ltd.
A Cinema Arts International Production in association with Hammer Films for ITC Entertainment – An OCC company.
UK Transmission Date: 27th September 1980
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Cast & Crew
Red = Uncredited
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
Assistant Art Director | Bob Bell | 62 | 21 Mar 1918 | 6 Jun 2009 | 91 | 13 | 13 | ||
Assistant Art Director | Richard Rooker | 36 | 1944 | 01.01.1944 | 80 | 13 | 13 | ||
Assistant Director | Ken Baker | 20 | 20 | ||||||
Camera Operator | Neil Binney | 49 | Jun 1931 | 01.06.1931 | 93 | 17 | 10 | 27 | |
Casting Director | Eileen Garstka | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Continuity | Lorely Farley | 41 | Apr 1939 | 01.04.1939 | 85 | 23 | 23 | ||
Costume Supervisor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/laura-nightingale/# | 35 | 35 | ||||||
Designer | Carolyn Scott | 23 | 23 | ||||||
Director | Peter Sasdy | 45 | 27 May 1935 | 27.05.1935 | 89 | 10 | 10 | ||
Director of Photography | Frank Watts BSc | 51 | 13 Jun 1929 | 5 Mar 1994 | 64 | 16 | 16 | ||
Dubbing Editor | Bryan Tilling | 51 | 1929 | 19 Feb 2011 | 82 | 13 | 13 | ||
Dubbing Editor | Jack Knight | 50 | 9 Aug 1930 | 7 Nov 1993 | 63 | 15 | 15 | ||
Dubbing Mixer | Otto Snel | 42 | 7 Dec 1937 | 18 Dec 2022 | 85 | 11 | 4 | 15 | |
Editor | Bob Dearberg | 41 | 3 Feb 1939 | 8 May 2017 | 78 | 10 | 2 | 12 | |
Executive Producer | Brian Lawrence | 60 | 1920 | 2004 | 84 | 26 | 26 | ||
Executive Producer | David Reid | 42 | 1 Mar 1938 | 01.03.1938 | 86 | 13 | 13 | ||
Gaffer | Steve Birtles | 65 | 12 Nov 1914 | 2003 | 88 | 14 | 15 | 29 | |
Hairdresser | Daphne Volmer | 52 | 15 Aug 1928 | 11 Jan 2006 | 77 | 17 | 17 | ||
Make-up | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/eddie-knight/# | 55 | 14 Mar 1925 | 27 Aug 1996 | 71 | 31 | 31 | ||
Music Composer | Paul Patterson | 33 | 15 Jun 1947 | 15.06.1947 | 77 | 8 | 8 | ||
Music Editor | Marcel Durham | 60 | 21 Jun 1920 | Apr 2000 | 79 | 13 | 13 | ||
Musical Supervisor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/philip-martell/# | 72 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 104 | 1 | 105 | |
Producer | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/roy-skeggs/# | 46 | Apr 1934 | 29 Dec 2018 | 84 | 45 | 2 | 47 | |
Production Assistant | Margaret Nicholas | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Production Assistant | Mike Widd | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Production Manager | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/ron-jackson/# | 45 | 1935 | 1993 | 58 | 34 | 1 | 35 | |
Production Runner | Callum McDougall | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Screenplay | Gerald Savory | 70 | 17 Nov 1909 | 6 Feb 1996 | 86 | 1 | 1 | ||
Sound Recordist | John Bramall | 57 | 18 Aug 1923 | 13 Jun 2000 | 76 | 23 | 23 | ||
Special Effects | Ian Scoones | 40 | 20 Feb 1940 | 20 Jan 2010 | 69 | 13 | 9 | 22 | |
Story Editor | Anthony Read | 45 | 21 Apr 1935 | 21 Nov 2015 | 80 | 14 | 14 | ||
Title Designer | Chris Wood | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
CID Sergeant | Pat Gorman | 47 | 10 May 1933 | 9 Oct 2018 | 85 | 4 | 4 | ||
Dr Melbury | Gareth Armstrong | 32 | 26 Jun 1948 | 26.06.1948 | 76 | 1 | 1 | ||
Emily Shenley | Pat Heywood | 49 | 1 Aug 1931 | 26 Jun 2024 | 92 | 1 | 1 | ||
Lolly | Lucy Gutteridge | 23 | 28 Nov 1956 | 28.11.1956 | 67 | 1 | 1 | ||
Maid | Patricia Mort | 47 | 27 Apr 1933 | 24 Mar 1999 | 65 | 1 | 1 | ||
Man in Street | Alan Meacham | 51 | 14 May 1929 | 2 May 1998 | 68 | 5 | 5 | ||
Mr Rayburn | James Laurenson | 40 | 17 Feb 1940 | 17.01.1940 | 84 | 2 | 2 | ||
Norman Shenley | Denholm Elliott | 58 | 31 May 1922 | 6 Oct 1992 | 70 | 2 | 2 |
Footnotes
Denholm Elliott played Marcus Brody in the Indiana Jones films.
Pat Heywood played serial killer Reginald Christie’s wife, Ethel, in the 1971 film 10 Rillington Place