A teacher witnesses one of his students mentally attack another. The boy claims that his brother didn’t like what the student did to him. He also learns that he drew a sketch when he supposedly couldn’t. He learns from his parents who adopted him that he has a twin brother. So the teacher and another go see the brother and learn from his mother that he draws.
They discover him playing the piano when his mother claims he can’t. They learn that he is not the brother that the student claims who made him attack the other. The teacher later finds himself experiencing his worst fear.
They later find where they were born and discover another brother who plays the piano. They learn that their biological parents were subjected to experiments by the Nazis. They discover that the fourth brother is inherently evil. The boys then all come together. The teacher tries to save them.
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 3rd March 1970
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Cast & Crew
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
Art Director | William Kellner | 69 | 30 Jul 1900 | May 1996 | 95 | 7 | 7 | ||
Assistant Art Director | George Lack | 52 | 1918 | Jul 2014 | 96 | 7 | 7 | ||
Assistant Director | Brian Dunbar | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Based upon a story by | L.P. Davies | 55 | 20 Oct 1914 | 6 Jan 1988 | 73 | 1 | 1 | ||
Camera Operator | Lou Lavelly | 35 | 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 | James Hill | 50 | 9 Jul 1919 | 7 Oct 1994 | 75 | 1 | 1 | ||
Director of Photography | Arthur Lavis B.S.C. | 45 | 14 Jun 1924 | 15 Jan 1999 | 74 | 6 | 6 | ||
Editor | Ronald J. Fagan | 41 | 6 Apr 1928 | 21 Oct 2000 | 72 | 4 | 4 | ||
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 | David Lindup | 41 | 10 May 1928 | 7 Jan 1992 | 63 | 6 | 6 | ||
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 | 42 | 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 | Oscar Millard | 62 | 1 Mar 1908 | 7 Dec 1990 | 82 | 3 | 3 | ||
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 | |
Albert Cole | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/michael-ripper/# | 57 | 27 Jan 1913 | 28 Jun 2000 | 87 | 34 | 2 | 36 | |
Bart Brereton | John Welsh | 55 | 7 Nov 1914 | 21 Apr 1985 | 70 | 4 | 2 | 6 | |
Boy | Roderick Shaw | 11 | 30 Jun 1958 | Apr 1974 | 37 | 2 | 2 | ||
Boy | Barnaby Shaw | 10 | 1960 | 01.01.1960 | 64 | 2 | 2 | ||
Charles Philips | Noel Davis | 43 | 1 Mar 1927 | 24 Nov 2002 | 75 | 1 | 1 | ||
Craig Miller | Michael Tolan | 44 | 27 Nov 1925 | 31 Jan 2011 | 85 | 1 | 1 | ||
Dr. Yarrow | Edward Hardwick | 37 | 7 Aug 1932 | 16 May 2011 | 78 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Elsie Cole | Catherine Finn | 55 | 7 Feb 1915 | 1 Mar 1980 | 65 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Emily Blake | June Jago | 42 | 31 Mar 1928 | 2 Aug 2010 | 82 | 1 | 1 | ||
Jill Collins | Nanette Newman | 35 | 29 May 1934 | 29.05.1934 | 90 | 2 | 2 | ||
Joe Blake | Kenneth J Warren | 40 | 25 Sep 1929 | 27 Aug 1973 | 43 | 2 | 2 | ||
Mahew | Jerold Wells | 61 | 8 Aug 1908 | 19 Jul 1999 | 90 | 4 | 4 | ||
Mrs Biddle | Hazel Hughs | 56 | 21 Apr 1913 | 16 Nov 1974 | 61 | 1 | 1 | ||
Mrs. Latham | Dorothy Alison | 44 | 4 Apr 1925 | 17 Jan 1992 | 66 | 2 | 2 | ||
The Vicar | George Benson | 59 | 11 Jan 1911 | 17 Jun 1983 | 72 | 2 | 2 |
Footnotes
This was Nanette Newman’s only appearance in a Hammer production. She was famous in the UK for a series of ‘Fairy Liquid’ TV advertisements. She was married to Bryan Forbes who appeared in Hammer’s Yesterday’s Enemy (1959) and Quatermass 2 (1957).
Hammer favourite, Michael Ripper, puts in an appearance here alongside his second wife Catherine Finn.