A drifter goes to work in a strange household where an unhinged aunt refuses to acknowledge that her orphaned nephew (living in her care), is a boy – rather than a girl.
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 8th May 1970
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Cast & Crew
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
Art Director | Roy Stannard | 39 | 1931 | Mar 2008 | 77 | 10 | 10 | ||
Assistant Art Director | Graham Parker | 39 | 1931 | 7 Oct 1992 | 61 | 8 | 8 | ||
Assistant Director | Derek Whitehurst | 41 | 2 Oct 1928 | 6 Dec 2005 | 77 | 16 | 16 | ||
Based upon a story by | Charles Beaumont | 41 | 2 Jan 1929 | 21 Feb 1967 | 38 | 2 | 2 | ||
Camera Operator | Lou Lavelly | 36 | 11 Mar 1934 | 26 May 1992 | 58 | 5 | 5 | ||
Casting | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/james-liggat/# | 50 | 1920 | 28 Sep 1981 | 61 | 29 | 2 | 31 | |
Continuity | Lillian Lee | 6 | 6 | ||||||
Director | Robert Stevens | 49 | 2 Dec 1920 | 7 Aug 1989 | 68 | 2 | 2 | ||
Director of Photography | Arthur Lavis B.S.C. | 45 | 14 Jun 1924 | 15 Jan 1999 | 74 | 6 | 6 | ||
Editor | Inman Hunter | 55 | 25 Aug 1914 | Jul 1986 | 71 | 5 | 5 | ||
Executive Consultant | Jack Fleischmann | 17 | 17 | ||||||
Executive Producer | Norman Lloyd | 55 | 8 Nov 1914 | 11 May 2021 | 106 | 11 | 11 | ||
Executive Producer | Joan Harrison | 62 | 26 Jun 1907 | 14 Aug 1994 | 87 | 15 | 15 | ||
Focus Puller | Bob Jordan | 29 | 29 | ||||||
Hair Stylist | Elsie Alder | 64 | 2 Nov 1905 | 1979 | 73 | 8 | 8 | ||
Main Title Theme | Harry Robertson | 37 | 19 Nov 1932 | 17 Jan 1996 | 63 | 26 | 26 | ||
Make-up | Ernest Taylor | 57 | 31 Jan 1913 | Apr 1987 | 74 | 8 | 8 | ||
Music Composer | Harry Robertson | 37 | 19 Nov 1932 | 17 Jan 1996 | 63 | 26 | 26 | ||
Music Supervisor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/philip-martell/# | 62 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 104 | 1 | 105 | |
Post Production Consultant | Robert Mintz | 17 | 17 | ||||||
Producer | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/anthony-hinds/# | 47 | 18 Sep 1922 | 30 Sep 2013 | 91 | 87 | 3 | 90 | |
Production Manager | John Oldknow | 43 | 5 Mar 1927 | 10 Apr 1989 | 62 | 16 | 16 | ||
Sound Editor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/roy-baker/# | 42 | Jul 1927 | Feb 2011 | 83 | 29 | 1 | 30 | |
Sound Editor | Tony Pullen | 7 | 7 | ||||||
Sound Recordist | John Streeter | 45 | 1925 | 2012 | 87 | 8 | 8 | ||
Story Editor | John Gould | 34 | 1936 | 21 Apr 1974 | 38 | 19 | 19 | ||
Supervising Editor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/james-needs/# | 50 | 17 Oct 1919 | 4 Feb 2003 | 83 | 113 | 1 | 114 | |
Teleplay | Sarett Rudley | 52 | 26 Sep 1917 | 16 Apr 1976 | 58 | 1 | 1 | ||
Unit Manager | Michael Brown | 7 | 7 | ||||||
Wardrobe | Klara Kerpin | 60 | 25 Oct 1909 | 1982 | 72 | 7 | 7 | ||
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
Drake | George Maharis | 41 | 1 Sep 1928 | 24 May 2023 | 94 | 1 | 1 | ||
Girl | Adrianne Posta | 21 | 1 Mar 1949 | 01.03.1949 | 75 | 1 | 1 | ||
Miss Belle Weston | Barbara Jefford | 39 | 26 Jul 1930 | 12 Sep 2020 | 90 | 2 | 2 | ||
Robert | Kim Burfield | 9 | 1961 | 01.01.1961 | 63 | 1 | 1 |
Footnotes
Barbara Jefford’s only other appearance for Hammer was as Countess Herritzen in Lust for a Vampire (1971)