Vicky’s ex-husband, John, invites her on a trip to communist Prague. First John disappears, then her passport. Vicky finds herself alone and penniless in Prague and becomes a tragic pawn caught in a web of espionage and murder.
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
ITV London Transmission Date: 3rd December 1984
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Cast & Crew
Red = Uncredited
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
American Casting | William J Kenney | 45 | 29 May 1939 | 30 Dec 1992 | 53 | 13 | 13 | ||
American Casting | Daniel Travis | 14 | 14 | ||||||
Art Director | Carolyn Scott | 23 | 23 | ||||||
Assistant Art Director | Peta Button | 43 | Jul 1941 | 01.07.1941 | 83 | 4 | 4 | ||
Assistant Director | Ken Baker | 20 | 20 | ||||||
Assistant to Producer | Karen Woods | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Assistant to Producer | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/laura-nightingale/# | 35 | 35 | ||||||
Associate Camerman | Terry Cole | 4 | 4 | ||||||
Camera Operator | Ken Withers | 56 | 21 Aug 1928 | 10 Mar 2020 | 91 | 14 | 14 | ||
Casting Director | Lesley de Pettit | 48 | 1936 | 2002 | 66 | 14 | 14 | ||
Continuity | Lorely Farley | 45 | Apr 1939 | 01.04.1939 | 85 | 23 | 23 | ||
Director | John Hough | 43 | 21 Nov 1941 | 21.11.1941 | 82 | 7 | 7 | ||
Director of Photography | Brian West | 56 | 27 Apr 1928 | 27.04.1928 | 96 | 8 | 1 | 9 | |
Dubbing Editor | Terry Poulton | 54 | 1930 | 1993 | 63 | 17 | 1 | 18 | |
Dubbing Mixer | Ernie Marsch | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Editor | Peter Weatherley GBFE | 54 | 1930 | Sep 2015 | 85 | 15 | 15 | ||
Executive Producer | Brian Lawrence | 64 | 1920 | 2004 | 84 | 26 | 26 | ||
Executive Production Manager | Dieter Limbek | 35 | 30 Jul 1949 | 30.07.1949 | 75 | 1 | 1 | ||
Executive Story Editor | Don Houghton | 54 | 2 Feb 1930 | 2 Jul 1991 | 61 | 20 | 20 | ||
Hairdresser | Daphne Volmer | 56 | 15 Aug 1928 | 11 Jan 2006 | 77 | 17 | 17 | ||
Make-up | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/eddie-knight/# | 59 | 14 Mar 1925 | 27 Aug 1996 | 71 | 31 | 31 | ||
Music Composer | John McCabe | 45 | 21 Apr 1939 | 13 Feb 2015 | 75 | 6 | 6 | ||
Musical Supervisor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/philip-martell/# | 77 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 104 | 1 | 105 | |
Producer | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/roy-skeggs/# | 50 | Apr 1934 | 29 Dec 2018 | 84 | 45 | 2 | 47 | |
Production Accountant | Sheala Daniell | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Production Accountant | Linda Nettleton | 35 | 1949 | 01.01.1949 | 75 | 13 | 13 | ||
Production Assistant | Sheila Collins | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Production Manager | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/ron-jackson/# | 49 | 1935 | 1993 | 58 | 34 | 1 | 35 | |
Publicity | Jean Garioch | 56 | 7 Jul 1928 | 21 Jan 1987 | 58 | 14 | 1 | 15 | |
Screenplay | Jeremy Burnham | 53 | 28 May 1931 | 31 Dec 2020 | 89 | 6 | 6 | ||
Sound Recordist | John Bramall | 61 | 18 Aug 1923 | 13 Jun 2000 | 76 | 23 | 23 | ||
Still Photographer | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/john-jay/# | 64 | 14 Nov 1920 | 29 Apr 2005 | 84 | 13 | 22 | 35 | |
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
1st Desk Clerk | Christopher Robbie | 46 | 30 Sep 1938 | 30.09.1938 | 86 | 2 | 2 | ||
2nd Desk Clerk | Sandor Eles | 48 | 15 Jun 1936 | 4 Sep 2002 | 66 | 3 | 3 | ||
Brown | Richard Heffer | 38 | 28 Jul 1946 | 28.07.1946 | 78 | 1 | 1 | ||
Bulneck | Peter Vaughan | 61 | 4 Apr 1923 | 6 Dec 2016 | 93 | 2 | 2 | ||
Doctor | Pam St. Clement | 42 | 11 May 1942 | 11.05.1942 | 82 | 1 | 1 | ||
First desk clerk | Robert East | 41 | 7 Jul 1943 | 7.07.1943 | 81 | 2 | 2 | ||
Girl on Bridge | Tessa Wojczak | 26 | 1958 | 01.01.1958 | 66 | 1 | 1 | ||
Head Waiter | Steve Plytas | 71 | 9 Jan 1913 | 27 Dec 1994 | 81 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Immigration Officer | Christopher Rozycki | 41 | 15 Oct 1943 | 10 Apr 2015 | 71 | 1 | 1 | ||
Inspector | Stephan Gryff | 46 | 5 May 1938 | 3 Jun 2017 | 79 | 1 | 1 | ||
Ivan | Jiri Stanislav | 38 | 3 Dec 1946 | 1 Aug 2020 | 73 | 1 | 1 | ||
John Duncan | Patrick Mower | 46 | 12 Sep 1938 | 12.09.1938 | 86 | 2 | 2 | ||
Man at Bar | Pat Gorman | 51 | 10 May 1933 | 9 Oct 2018 | 85 | 4 | 4 | ||
Man on Bridge | Daniel Wozinak | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Maria | Catherine Neilson | 27 | 3 Oct 1957 | 3.10.1957 | 67 | 1 | 1 | ||
Mrs Jiracek | Hana-Maria Pravda | 68 | 29 Jan 1916 | 28 May 2008 | 92 | 1 | 1 | ||
Plain Clothes Policeman | George Mikell | 55 | 4 Apr 1929 | 12 May 2020 | 91 | 1 | 1 | ||
Porter | Mark Mailcz | 75 | 1909 | 17 Jan 1986 | 77 | 1 | 1 | ||
Producer | Jeremy Burnham | 53 | 28 May 1931 | 31 Dec 2020 | 89 | 6 | 6 | ||
Security Guard 1 | Robert Russell | 48 | 24 May 1936 | 12 May 2008 | 71 | 1 | 1 | ||
Stephan | Roy Boyd | 46 | 18 Aug 1938 | 27 Apr 2024 | 85 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
Vicky Duncan | Susan George | 34 | 26 Jul 1950 | 26.07.1950 | 74 | 1 | 1 |
Footnotes
Although actress Susan George starred in a number of horror productions, including Die Screaming, Marianne (1971), The Sorcerers (1968) and The House where Evil Dwells (1982), this was her only appearance in a Hammer Production.
Patrick Mower played Simon Arron in Hammer’s The Devil Rides Out (1968).
Pam St. Clements played Pat Butcher in the BBC TV soap Eastenders.