Setting off on their holidays, a family give a lift to a sinister hitchhiker. After the car crashes, one man is dead and one man is injured. But which one?
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 29 Nov 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 | 92 | 17 | 10 | 27 | |
Casting Director | Eileen Garstka | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Continuity | Lorely Farley | 41 | 01 Apr 1939 | 01.04.1939 | 84 | 22 | 22 | ||
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 Mixer | Otto Snel | 42 | 7 Dec 1937 | 18 Dec 2022 | 85 | 11 | 4 | 15 | |
Editor | Peter Weatherley GBFE | 50 | 1 Jan 1930 | 1 Sep 2015 | 85 | 15 | 15 | ||
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 | 66 | 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 | Paul Patterson | 33 | 15 Jun 1947 | 15.06.1947 | 76 | 8 | 8 | ||
Music Editor | Peter Best | 7 | 7 | ||||||
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 | Ranald Graham | 39 | 3 Jan 1941 | 29 Aug 2010 | 69 | 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 |
Ambulance Man | Byron Sotiris | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Ambulance Man | Ron Gregory | 60 | 1 Jan 1920 | 25 May 2018 | 98 | 2 | 2 | ||
Attendant | Malcolm Hayes | 66 | 11 Dec 1913 | 27 Jul 1981 | 67 | 1 | 1 | ||
David | Paul Hawkins | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Dr Cummings | Jeremy Longhurst | 49 | 26 Jun 1931 | 18 Feb 2001 | 69 | 4 | 4 | ||
Hargreaves | Philip Latham | 51 | 17 Jan 1929 | 20 Jun 2020 | 91 | 4 | 4 | ||
Janet | Anna Calder-Marshall | 33 | 11 Jan 1947 | 11.01.1947 | 77 | 1 | 1 | ||
Martin | Gary Raymond | 45 | 20 Apr 1935 | 20.04.1935 | 88 | 1 | 1 | ||
Mr Roberts | William Moore | 64 | 19 Apr 1916 | 24 Apr 2000 | 84 | 1 | 1 | ||
Mrs Roberts | Jenny Laird | 68 | 13 Feb 1912 | 31 Oct 2001 | 89 | 1 | 1 | ||
Nurse | Pam Rose | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Nurse Davies | Brenda Cowling | 55 | 23 Apr 1925 | 2 Oct 2010 | 85 | 1 | 1 | ||
PC Jenkins | Mike Savage | 37 | 20 May 1943 | 20.05.1943 | 80 | 1 | 1 | ||
Sister | Pauline Delaney | 55 | 8 Jun 1925 | 15 Jan 2007 | 81 | 1 | 1 |
Footnotes
Philip Latham appeared in Hammer’s Dracula, Prince of Darkness (1966), and made his big screen debut in The Dam Busters (1955).