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
© 1984 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, 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.
Produced by Hammer Film Productions Limited.
UK Transmission Date: 25 Oct 1980
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Cast & Crew
Red = Uncredited
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Hidden | Death | Age | Hammer Credited | Hammer Uncredited | Hammer Total |
Assistant Art Director | Bob Bell | 62 | 21 Mar 1918 | 6 Jun 2009 | 91 | 13 | 13 | ||
Assistant Art Director | Richard Rooker | 36 | 01 Jan 1944 | 01.01.1944 | 80 | 13 | 13 | ||
Camera Operator | Neil Binney | 49 | 01 Jun 1931 | 01.06.1931 | 93 | 17 | 10 | 27 | |
Casting Director | Eileen Garstka | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Continuity | Marjorie Lavelly | 59 | 12 Apr 1921 | 22 Sep 2006 | 85 | 8 | 8 | ||
Costume Supervisor | Laura Nightingale | 35 | 35 | ||||||
Designer | Carolyn Scott | 23 | 23 | ||||||
Director | Alan Gibson | 42 | 28 Apr 1938 | 5 Jul 1987 | 49 | 8 | 8 | ||
Director of Photography | Frank Watts BSc | 51 | 13 Jun 1929 | 5 Mar 1994 | 64 | 15 | 15 | ||
Dubbing Editor | Brian Tilling | 51 | 1 Jan 1929 | 19 Feb 2011 | 82 | 13 | 13 | ||
Dubbing Editor | Jack Knight | 50 | 9 Aug 1930 | 7 Nov 1993 | 63 | 15 | 15 | ||
Dubbing Editor | Peter Best | 7 | 7 | ||||||
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 | 9 | 2 | 11 | |
Executive Producer | Brian Lawrence | 60 | 1 Jan 1920 | 1 Jan 2004 | 84 | 25 | 25 | ||
Executive Producer | David Reid | 42 | 01 Mar 1938 | 01.03.1938 | 86 | 13 | 13 | ||
Gaffer | Steve Birtles | 65 | 12 Nov 1914 | 1 Jan 2003 | 88 | 13 | 14 | 27 | |
Hairdresser | Daphne Volmer | 52 | 15 Aug 1928 | 11 Jan 2006 | 77 | 17 | 17 | ||
Make-up | Eddie Knight | 55 | 14 Mar 1925 | 27 Aug 1996 | 71 | 31 | 31 | ||
Music Composer | Leonard Salzedo | 59 | 24 Sep 1921 | 6 May 2000 | 78 | 7 | 1 | 8 | |
Music Editor | Marcel Durham | 60 | 21 Jun 1920 | 1 Apr 2000 | 79 | 12 | 12 | ||
Musical Supervisor | Philip Martell | 73 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 104 | 1 | 105 | |
Producer | Roy Skeggs | 46 | 1 Apr 1934 | 29 Dec 2018 | 84 | 45 | 1 | 46 | |
Production Assistant | Margaret Nicholas | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Production Assistant | Mike Widd | 12 | 12 | ||||||
Production Manager | Ron Jackson | 45 | 1 Jan 1935 | 1 Jan 1993 | 58 | 34 | 1 | 35 | |
Production Runner | Callum McDougall | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Screenplay | Francis Essex | 51 | 29 Mar 1929 | 5 Mar 2009 | 79 | 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 | ||
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Hidden | Death | Age | Hammer Credited | Hammer Uncredited | Hammer Total |
Aldridge | Anthony Carrick | 48 | 16 Feb 1932 | 16.02.1932 | 92 | 1 | 1 | ||
Annie | Elaine Donnelly | 32 | 22 Mar 1948 | 22.03.1948 | 76 | 1 | 1 | ||
Chuck | Brian Cox | 34 | 01 Jun 1946 | 01.06.1946 | 78 | 1 | 1 | ||
Lionel | Terry Kinsella | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Martin Blueck | Peter Cushing | 67 | 26 May 1913 | 11 Aug 1994 | 81 | 24 | 1 | 25 | |
Police Officer | Robin Browne | 1 | 1 |
Footnotes
This was Peter Cushing’s final performance for Hammer.