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NOTE: This is a complete listing of all the films produced by or related
to Hammer Studios. The list is divided into three sections: Theatrical Releases,
Television Productions and Documentaries about Hammer Films. All films are
listed alphabetically by their year of release. For more information on the
Hammer films check out the excellant book HAMMER FILMS: AN EXHAUSTIVE FILMOGRAPHY
by Tom Johnson and Deborah Del Vecchio. Published by McFarland in 1996.
POLLY'S TWO FATHERS D: George Mozart. CAST: George Mozart, Will Hammer, Apri Vivian, Pat Aherne, Ian Wilson. Hammer short subject about two down-on-their luck fishermen. 23 minutes.
THE PUBLIC LIFE OF HENRY THE NINTH
D: Bernard Mainwaring CAST: Leonard Henry, Betty Frankiss, George Mozart,
Wally Patch, Aileen Latham, Mai Bacon. This long unseen comedy was Hammer
studios first film. The title is an obvious play on THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HENRY
THE EIGHTH (1933) which starred Charles Laughton. Any comparison to that
film end there. This is the story of a street entertainer who becomes a popular
act in a local pub giving the pub an aire of notoriety. 60 minutes.
MUSICAL MERRYTONES NO.1
D: Will Hammer. Hammer short subject. No further information on this film
at this time.
THE MYSTERY OF THE MARY CELESTE
aka: THE SECRET OF THE MARY CELESTE, THE PHANTOM SHIP
D: Dennison Clift CAST: Bela Lugosi, Shirley Grey, Arthur Margetson,
Edmund Willard, George Mozart, Ben Welden, Dennis Hoey, Gibson Gowland, Clifford
McLaglen, Terence de Marney, Herbert Cameron, Ben Souten, James Carew, Bruce
Gordon, Johnny Schofield, Edgar Pierce, J.B. Williams, Charles Mortimer,
Wildred Essex, Alex Frasier, Gunnar Moir, Monti de Lyle. Hammer's first venture
into the macabre recounts the legendary tale of a derelict ship that is found
with no passengers. This is Hammer's attempt at unraveling the mystery. 80
minutes.
SONG OF FREEDOM
D: J. Elder Willis CAST: Paul Robeson, Elisabeth Welch, Esme Percy, Robert
Adams, Ecce Homo Toto, Ronald Simpson, George Mozart. Jennie Dean, Joan F.
Emney, Bernard Ansell, Arthur Williams, Cornelia Smith, Alf Goddard, Will
Hammer, James Solomon, Johnnie Shofield, Ambrose Morning, Arthur Eliot. A
black dock worker in London is discovered for his singing talents and is
trained to sinf professionally. It is soon discovered that he is actually
the Prince of an African tribe. He returns to find his roots. 80 minutes.
THE BANK MESSENGER MYSTERY
D: Will Hammer Cast: George Mozart, Fancesca Bahrie, Paul Neville, Marilyn
Love, Frank Tickle, Kenneth Kove. A lost early Hammer film about a character
who becomes involved with theives after he loses his job as a bank teller.
56 minutes.
SPORTING LOVE
D: J. Elder Willis CAST: Stanley Lupino, Laddie Cliff, Henry Carlisle, Eda
Peel, Bobby Comber, Barry Lupino, Arty Ash. Hammer adapted a minor stage
success for this comedy about two stable owners who kidnap a horse in an
attempt to raise money for their mortgage. 68 minutes.
OLD FATHER THAMES
D: Hal Wilson, Ben R. Hart. Hammer short subject. No further information
on this film at this time.
CANDY'S CALENDER
D: Horace Shepherd. Uneventful animal film about Candy the Cat. 36 minutes.
CORNISH HOLIDAY
D: Harry Long. Travelogue that checks out the popular tourist spots of Cornwall.
33 minutes.
AN ENGLISHMAN'S HOME
D: John Miller. Hammer short subject. No further information on this film
at this time.
IT'S A DOG'S LIFE
D: Eric Leslie. Hammer short subject. No further information on this film
at this time.
PEKE'S SOLD A POP
Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
PERCHANCE TO SAIL
D: J. Blake Dalrymple. Hammer short subject. No further information on this
film at this time.
SKIFFY GOES TO SEA
D: Harry May. Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at
this time.
TINY WINGS
Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
WE DO BELEIVE IN GHOSTS
D: Walter West. John Latham, Arthur Dibbs, Valerie Carlish, Stephen Philpott,
G.W. Shelton. Hammer short subject. A trio of ghost stories along with a
discussion of the pissibility of the existence of ghosts. 36 minutes.
BIRTHPLACE OF FAME
Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
BRED TO STAY
D: A. A. Housset. Documentary on the breeding of horses. 36 minutes.
CRIME REPORTER
D: Ben R. Hart. CAST: John Blythe, Stan Paskin, Jackie Brent, George Dewhurst,
Val Boolen, Agnes Brantford. Featurette about a reporter who connects a murder
with a Soho gang. 36 minutes.
DEATH IN HIGH HEELS
D: Tommy Tomlinson CAST: Don Stannard, Elsa Tree, Veronica Rose, Denise Anthony,
Patricia Laffan, Diana Wong, Nora Gordon, Bill Hodge, Ken Warrington, Leslie
Spurling. The police are called in to investigate a poisoning at an exclusive
dress shop in this very rare Hammer crime drama. 47 minutes.
LIFE IS NOTHING WITHOUT MUSIC
D: Horace Shepherd. Hammer short subject. No further information on this
film at this time.
MATERIAL EVIDENCE
D: Darell Catling. CAST: Ingrid Forrest, Constance Smith, Gordon McLeod.
Hammer short subject. Two career driven women change their minds about their
careers when they fall in love. 35 minutes.
PADDY'S MILESTONE
D: J. Blake Dalrymple. Hammer short subject. No further information on this
film at this time.
WHAT THE STAR'S FORTELL
D: Tommy Tomlinson. Hammer short subject. No further information on this
film at this time.
DICK BARTON, SPECIAL AGENT
DICK BARTON-DETECTIVE
D: Alfred Gouling CAST: Don Stannard, George Ford, Jack Shaw, Gillian Maude,
Beatrice Kane, Ivor Danvers, Geoffrey Wincott, Arthur Bush, Alec Ross, Franham
Baxter, Morris Sweden, Ernest Borrow. This was Hammer studio's first really
big hit. It also marked the beginning of a tradition at the studio of basing
film projects on popular radio series. Film with post-war anti-Nazi sentiment
the film has a camp value to it. Several attempts are made to assassinate
Dick Barton as he attempts to foil Nazi's bent of the destruction of England
by planting germ bombs in it's resevoirs. The first of three films. 72 minutes.
THE END OF THE BRIDGE
D: Richard Fisher. Hammer short subject. No further information on this film
at this time.
HIGHLAND STORY
Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
EMERALD ISLE
Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
TALE OF A CITY
D: Richard Fisher. CAST: Joyce Cummings, Michael Hawley. Hammer short subject.
Crime drama about a reporter who saves a bus driver. 36 minutes.
WHO KILLED VAN LOON
D: Lionel Tomlinson, Gordon Kyle. CAST: Raymond Lovell, Kay Bannerman, Robert
Wyndham. A woman is tricked into confessing a murder but it is soon discovered
that Nazi's have infiltrated England in an attempt to steal uncut diamonds.
Little seen Hammer film that appears to have disappeared. 48 minutes.
THE ADVENTURES OF P.C. 49
D: Godfrey Grayson. CAST: Hugh Lattimer, Patricia Cutts, John Penrose, Pat
Nye, Annette Simmons, Arthur Brandler. Based on the BBC radio program. Routine
spy adventure. Followed by A CASE FOR P.C. 49. 69 minutes.
CELIA - THE SINISTER AFFAIR OF POOR AUNT NORA
D: Francis Searle. CAST: Hy Hazell, Bruce Lister, John Bailey, James Raglan,
Elsie Wagstaff, Lockwood West. OK comedy thriller about a girl who thinks
her step-uncle is a murderer. 67 minutes.
DICK BARTON STRIKES BACK
D: Godfrey Grayson. CAST: Don Stannard, Sebastian cabot, Jean Lodge, James
raglan, Bruce Walker, Humphrey Kent, Morris Sweden, John Harvey, Sidney Vivian,
Toni Morelli, George Crawford, Laurie Taylor, Shulman. Actually the third
Dick Barton film made but the second released. A madman bent on world domination
has developed a vibration ray that is capable of levelling a city. Special
Agent Barton is on the case to stop him. This is closer in style to the later
James Bond films. A forth Barton film, DICK BARTON IN DARKEST AFRICA, was
promised but never delivered. 73 minutes
DR. MORELLE - THE CASE OF THE MISSING HERIESS
D: Godfrey Grayson. CAST: Valentine Dyall, Julie Lang, Jean Lodge, Philip
Leaver, Peter Drury. Dr. Morelle, like Dick Barton, was based on a popular
BBC radio series. Morelle is a cynical investigator whose secretary discovers
a burnt corpse and calls Morelle in on the case. 73 minutes
JACK OF DIAMONDS
D: Vernon Sewell. CAST: Nigel Patrick, Cyril Raymond, Joan Carol, Dolly
Bowmeester, John Basings, Darcy Conyers, Vernon Sewell, Edwin Richfield,
Guy Romano. A once wealthy couple tries to regain their wealth by going on
a treasure hunt only to discover that their partner is a theif and plans
to do them in. Standard adventure fare of the time. 73 minutes.
DICK BARTON AT BAY
D: Godfray Grayson. CAST: Don Stannard, Tamra Desni, George Ford, Meinhart
Maur, Joyce Linden, Percy Walsh, Campbell Singer, Richard George, John Arnatt,
Beatrice Kane, George Crawford, Paddy Ryan, Ted Butterfield, Patrick Macnee,
Fred Owen, Yoshihide Yanai. The thrid installment in the Dick Barton films
began production in 1948, before the second film. A scientist develops a
death ray and is kidnapped by foreign agents who plan to use it against British
Aircraft. 68 minutes.
THE LADY CRAVED EXCITEMENT
D: Francis Searle CAST: Hy Hazell, Michael Medwin, Sidney James, Andrew keir,
Thelma Grigg, Danny Green, John Longden, Ian Wilson, Barbara Hamilton, Jasmine
Dee, Gordon Mulholland. Another Hammer comedy. Entertainers at a local club
become involved in a case of art theifs when one agrees to pose as Anne Boleyn
for an artists. 60 minutes
MONKEY MANNERS
Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
QUEER FISH
Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
ROOM TO LET
D: Godfrey Grayson. CAST: Jimmy Hanley, Valentine Dyall, Christine Silver,
Myrtle Tottenham, Constance Smith, Charles Hawtrey, Aubrey Dexter, Anthony
La Penna, Reginald Dyson, Lawrence Naismith, John Clifford, Stuart Saunders,
Cyril Conway, Charles Houston, Harriet Petworth, Charles Mander, H. Hamilton
Earle, F.A. Williams, Archie Callum. Similar to THE LODGER in many ways,
this tight film tells the story of a border who has a mysterious hold on
his landlady and her daughter. Unique twist during the films conclusion halp
make this an interesting variation. 68 minutes.
SOMEONE AT THE DOOR
D: Francis Searle CAST: Yvonne Owen, Micheal Medwin, Hugh Latimer, Danny
Green, Gary Marsh, Campbell Singer, John Kelly. An early comedy thriller
from Hammer about a newspaper man who wants to get the story of the century
and stages a murder with himself as the prime suspect. This one plays like
one of those Old Dark House movies that were popular during the 1930's 65
minutes.
WHAT THE BUTLER SAW
D: Godfrey Grayson CAST: Edward Rigby, Henry Mollinson, Mercy Haystead, Michael
Ward, Eleanor Hallam, Peter Burton, Anne Valery, Tonie MacMillan, Mallie
Palmer, Howard Charlton, Alfred Harris, George Bishop, Norman Pitt. Another
apparently lost Hammer comedy from the early days. This one involves an Earl
who returns to England only to discover that a native Island Princess has
stowed away with them causing frustration for all involved. 61 minutes.
BLACK WIDOW
D: Vernon Sewell. CAST: Chrsitine Norden, Robert Ayres, Anthony Forwood,
John Longdon, Joghn Harvey, Jennifer Jayne, Reginald Dyson, Madoline Thomas,
Joan Carol, Jill Hubert, Bill Hodge. A man is knocked unconscious and the
theif steals his wallet and car. The theif dies in a car accident and the
man loses his memory. Once his memory is regained he discovers that his wife
is about to marry her lover after inheriting his estate. The wife, who identified
the theif as her husband, discovers her husband is still alive and plots
to murder him since it is already beleived that he is dead. 62 minutes.
A CASE FOR P.C. 49
D: Francis Searle. CAST: Brian Reece, Joan Shelton, Christine Norden, Leslie
Bradley, Gordon Mcleod, Campbell Singer, Jack Stewart, Michael Balfour, Michael
Ripper, Joan Seton, John Sharpe, Frank Hawkins, John Barry, John Warren.
Routine follow-up to THE ADVENTURES OF P.C. 49. This time a model plans to
murder a millionaire. 81 minutes.
CHASE ME CHARLIE
Several of Charlie Chaplin's films are re-edited into this feature length
film that was released by Hammer. 46 minutes.
THE DARK LIGHT
D: Vernon Sewell. CAST: Albert Lieven, David Greene, Norman MacOwen, Martin
Benson, Jack Stewart, Catherine Blake, Joan Carol, John Harvey, John Longden.
A Hammer crime drama about murder in a light house. This was the first film
with Michael Carreras as Producer. 66 minutes.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD
D: Godfrey Grayson. CAST: Avis Scott, Patrick Barr, Robert Ayres, Harry Fine,
Ellen Pollock, Richard Warner, Eunice Gayson, Peter Neil. A man discovers
that he is dying and attempts to get his house in order in this soap opera
formula picture. 63 minutes.
THE ROSSITER CASE
D: Francis Searle CAST: Helen Shingler, Clement McCallan, Sheila Burrell,
Frederick Leister, Ann Codrington, Henry Edwards, Dorothy Batley, Gabrielle
Blunt, Eleanore Bryan, Ewen Solon, Robert Percival, Dennis Castle, Frederic
Steger, Stanley Baker, Anthony Allen. A coniving sister-in-law makes life
miserable for her sister and her sister's husband resulting in murder.
VILLAGE OF BRAY
Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
CALL OF THE LAND
D: Richard Fisher. Hammer short subject. No further information on this film
at this time.
CLOUDBURST
D: Francis Searle. CAST: Robert Preston, Elizabeth Sellars, Colin Tapley,
Harold Lang, Sheila Burrell, Mary Germaine, George Woodbridge, Lyn Evans,
Thomas Heathcote, Edith Sharpe, Daphne Anderson, Edward Lexy, Noel Howlett,
James Mills, Martin Boddey, Robert Brown, Charles Saynor, Stanley Baker.
Decent suspenser about a man hunting down the criminals who murdered his
wife. 92 minutes.
DEATH OF AN ANGEL D: Charles Saunders CAST: Patrick Barr, Jane Baxter, Julie Somers, Raymond Young, Jean Lodge, Russell Walters, Russell Napier, James Mills, Frank Tickle, Katie Johnson, Robert Brown, John Kelly, Duggie Ascot, Hal Osmond, June Bardsley, David Stoll. The soap opera format was becoming formula for Hammer studios at this time and this film is no different. A woman is poisoned and her husband is suspect but it turns out to be another man who was attempting to poison the woman's husband. 64 minutes.
GISELLE
D: Henry Caldwell. Hammer short subject. No further information on this film
at this time.
LADY IN THE FOG
ala:SCOTLAND YARD INSPECTOR
D: Sam Neufield. CAST: Cesar Romero, Lois Maxwell, Bernadette O'Farrell,
Geoffrey Keen, Campbell Singer, Alister Hunter, Mary Mackenzie, Frank Birch,
Wensley Pithey, Reed de Roven, Lloyd Lamble, Peter Swanwiek, Bill Fraser,
Lisa Lee, Lionel Harris, Betty Cooper, Clair James, Katy Johnson, Stuart
Saunders. A woman tries to find the murderer of her brother with the help
of an American journalist. 82 minutes.
THE LAST PAGE
D: Terence Fisher. CAST: George Brent, Marguerite Chapman, Raymond Huntley,
Peter Reynolds, Diana Dors, Eleanor Summerfield, Meredith Edwards, Harry
Fowler, Conrad Phillips, Lawrence Ward, Nelly Arno, David Keir, Eleanor Bryan,
Isabel Dean, Jack Faint, John Mann, Harold Goodwin, Archie Dungan, Sybil
Saxon, Leslie Weston, Lawrence O'Madden, Ian Wilson. A small bookshop becomes
the location for intrigue and murder. While this may not be a big Hammer
film it is important for several reasons. This film began a partnership with
Robert Lippert of the United States. Lippert provided American actors in
exchange for the distribution rights to the Hammer/Exclusive films in the
US. Lippert release 17 Hammer productions between 1952 and 1955 while Hammer
gained distribution rights to the Lippert films in the United Kingdom. This
film also introduced Diana Dors to the U.S. It was retitled MAN BAIT for
U.S. Distribution and was cut by 5 mintues. Original British running time
was 84 mintues.
MADE FOR LAUGHS
Hammer short subject of excerpts from silent films. No further information
on this film at this time.
NEVER LOOK BACK
D: Francis Searle. CAST: Rosamund John, Hugh Sinclair, Guy Middleton, Henry
Edwards, Terence Longdon, John Warwick, Brenda DeBanza, Arthur Howard, H.S.
Hills, Bruce Beltrage, Helen Burls, Frances Rowe, Bill Shine, Barbara Shaw,
David Scase, Norman Somers. Another Hammer soaper. When her lover is accused
of murder a woman provides an alibi. 73 minutes.
RIVER SHIPS
Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
A STOLEN FACE
D: Terence Fisher. CAST: Lizabeth Scott, Paul Henreid, Andre Morell, Susan
Stephen, Mary Mackenzei, John Wood, Susan Stephen, Arnold Ridley, Everly
Gregg, Cyril Smith, Janet Brunell, Grace Gawin, Terence O'Regan, Diana Beumont,
Alexis France, John Bull, Dorothy Bramhall, Ambrosine Philpotts, Russell
Napier, Hal Osmond, William Murray, Howard Doug-las, James Valentine, John
Warren, Frank Hawkins, Richard Wattis. A plastic surgeon turns a female convict
into the phsyical image of the woman he loves with disasterous results. This
was Hammer's biggest production to date with 32 sets and costume designer
Edith Head on hand for Lizabeth Scott. The film was also a slight venture
into the horror genre and the beginning of Hammer's theme of beauty as a
mask for evil. 72 minutes.
WHISPERING SMITH HITS LONDON
aka: WHISPERING SMITH VS. SCOTLAND YARD
D: Francis Searle. CAST: Richarld Carlson, Greta Gynt, Herbert Lom, Rona
Anderson, Alan Wheatley, Dora Bryan, Reginald Beckwith, Daniel Wherry, Michael
Ward, Danny Green, James Raglan, Stuart Nicol, Laurence Naismith, Christine
Silver, Vic Wise, Middleton Woods, Ben Williams, Sidney Vivian, Tony Frost,
June Bardsley, Michael Hogarth, John Wynn, Anthony Warner, Ian Wilson, Stanley
Baker, Lionel Grose, John Singer, John Kyle. Hammer picked up this sequel
to Paramount's 1948 WHISPERING SMITH. This time the detective is in England
investigating a suicide that he suspects to have actually been murder. The
British release of this film ran 82 minutes. The US release runs 77 minutes.
WINGS OF DANGER
D: Terence Fisher. CAST: Zachary Scott, Robert Beatty, Kay Kendall, Naomi
Chance, Arthur lane, Colin Tapley, Diane Cilento, Harold Lang, Jack Allen,
Sheila Raynor, Courtney Hope, June Ashley, Natasha Sokolova, June Mitchell,
James Steel, Russ Allen, Darcy Conyers. After his friend's plan crashes in
the English Channel, a man sets out to clear the name of his friend who is
suspected of smuggling currency. 73 minutes
BETWEEN TWO FRONTIERS
Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
BLOOD ORANGE
D: Terence Fisher. CAST: Tom Conway, Mila Parley, Naomi Chance, Eric Pohlman,
Richard Wattis, Eileen Way, Margarite Halstan, Delphi Lawrence, Andrew Osbourne,
Michael Ripper, Betty Cooper, Thomass Heathcote, Alan Rolfe, Roger Delgado,
Reed de Roven, Christina Forrest, Ann Hanslip, Leon Davey, Dorothy Robson,
Leo Phillips, Robert Moore, Dennis Cowles, John Watson, Cleo Rose. Routine
spy thriller set in a London fashion house. 82 minutes. AKA: THREE STOPS
TO MURDER
CATHEDRAL CITY
Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
A DAY IN THE COUNTRY
Filmed in 3D. Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at
this time.
THE FLANAGAN BOY
aka: BAD BLONDE
D: Reginald LeBorg. Cast: Barbara Payton, Frederick Valk, John Slater, Sidney
james, Tony Wright, marie Burke, Selma Vas Dias, George Woodbridge, Enzo
Coticchia, Bettina Dickson, Joe Quigley, Tom Clegg, Chris Adcock, Bob Simmonds,
Roy atthouse, Ralph Moss, Laurence Naismith. Hammer attempts Hollywood Film
Noir in this tale about a seaman who is groomed into becoming a boxer while
being detracted by an alluring female. This was the first Hammer film to
be attacked for a lack of morality with many critics attaching the term "lurid"
as a description of the film. 81 minutes.
FOUR-SIDED TRIANGLE
D: Terence Fisher. CAST: James Hayter, Barbara Payton, Stephen Murray, John
Van Eyssen, Percy Marmont, Jennifer Dearman, Glyn Dearman, Sean Barrett,
Kynaston Reeves, John Stuart, Edith Saville.. OK sci-fi film about two scientists
who invent a cloning device while falling in love with the same woman. This
film is important in the Hammer canon because it began a cycle of sci-fi
programmers that would eventually produce the classic QUATERMASS and FRANKENSTEIN
series. The casting of Hollywood bad girl Payton proved to be a smooth marketing
move for Hammer studios. 81 minutes.
THE GAMBLER AND THE LADY
D: Pat Jenkins. CAST: Dane Clark, Kathleen Byron, Naomi Chance, Meredith
Edwards, Anthony Forwood, Eric Pohlmann, Enzo Coticchia, Julian Somers, Anthony
Ireland, Thomas Gallagher, Max Bacon, Mona Washbourne, Jane Griffith, Richard
Shaw, George Pastell, Martin Benson, Eric Boon, Felix Osmond, Percy Marmont,
Robert Adair, Mark Singleton, Peter Hutton, Andre Mikhelson, Paul Sheridan,
Robert Brown, David keir, Irissa Cooper, Laurie Taylor, The Valencia Trio.
An American gambler opens a nightclub in in Britain hoping to escape his
past but soon becomes embroiled in the British underground when a gang war
breaks out in an attempt to seize possession of his club. While Pat Jenkins
is credited as director, Sam Newfield is given co-director billing in the
US prints and Terence Fisher was credited as the sole director in TODAY'S
CINEMA lending a minor controversy as to who really directed this film. Us
prints run 71 mintues while the British version is 74 minutes.
MANTRAP
D: Terence Fisher. CAST: Paul Henried, Lois Maxwell, Keiron Moore, Hugh Sinclair,
Lloyd Lamble, Anthony Forwood, Bill Travers, Mary Laura Wood, Kay Kendall,
John Penrose, Liam Gaffney, Conrad Phillips, John Stuart, Anna Turner, Christina
Forrest, Arnold Diamond, Jane Welsh, Geoffrey Murphy, Terry Carney, Barbara
Kowin. Talkative thriller about a man who escapes from a mental institution
to prove his innocence on a murder charge. 73 minutes.
THE SAINT'S RETURN
aka: THE SAINT'S GIRL FRIDAY
D: Seymour Freidman CAST: Louis Hayward, Sydney Tafler, Naomi Chance, Charles
Victor, Diana Dors, Harold lang, Jane Carr, Russell Enoch, Fred Johnson,
Thomas Gallagher, Ian Fleming, John Wynn, Russell Napier, George Margo. Simon
Templar returns to England to help an old friend. When he arrives he discovers
she was murdered and that a gang who runs a gambling den may be involved.
This was an attempt by Hammer to revive a series originally produced by RKO
with the last film being made in 1938 (THE SAINT IN NEW YORK). Louis Hayward
played Simon Templar in those films also. It wasn't until the 1960's TV series
with Roger Moore as Simon Templar that allowed The Saint to regain it's momentum.
73 minutes.
SKY TRADERS
D: Peter Bryan. Hammer short subject. No further information on this film
at this time.
SPACEWAYS
D:Terence Fisher CAST: Howard Duff, Eva Bartok, Andrew Osborn, Alan Wheatley,
Anthony Ireland, Micheal medwin, David Horne, Cecile Chevreua, Hugh Moxey,
Philip Leaver, Jean Webster-Brough, Leo Phillips, Marianne Stone. A scientist
must prove that he didn't murder his fiancee's ex-husband by launching him
into space. While the film has an interesting premise there is far too much
soap opera and to little science-fiction. Still this was Hammer's second
attempt at mainstream sci-fi that was becoming very popular in the US market.
This was based on a novel that was turned into a BBC play by Charles Eric
Maine. 74 minutes.
VALLEY OF PEACE
Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
THE WORLD'S SMALLEST COUNTRY
Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
DENNIS COMPTON
Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
FACE THE MUSIC
aka: BLACK GLOVE
D: Terence Fisher. CAST: Alex Nicol, Eleanor Summerfield, John Salew, Paul
Carpenter, Geoffrey Keen, Ann Hanslip, Fred Johnson, Martin Boddey, Arthur
Lane, Gordon Crier, Paula Byrne, Leo Phillip, Fred Tripp, Ben Williams, Frank
Birch, Jeremy Hawk, James carney, Melvyn Hayes, Mark Singleton, Tony Hilton,
Robert Sansom, Pat Jorden, Frank Petitt, Kenny Baker's Dozen. When an American
trumpet player goes to perform at the Palladium he finds himself implicated
in murder and turns amateur sleuth to find the real murder. 84 minutes.
FIVE DAYS
D: Montgomery Tully. CAST: Dane Clark, Paul Carpenter, Thea Gregory, Cecile
Chevreau, Anthony Forwood, Howard Marion Crawford, Avis Scott, Peter Gawthorne,
Leslie Wright, Hugo Schuster, Arthur Young, Martin Lawrence, Ross Hutchinson,
Arnold Diamond, Charles Hawtrey, Geoffrey Sumner. Facing financial destitude,
a businessman takes out an insurance policy naming his wife as sole beneficiary.
He then contacts an old friend and makes arragements to have himself murdered.
When his financial situation suddenly changes he tries to back out of the
plan but it appears to be to late. British Time: 72 minutes. US Time: 75
minutes.
HOLIDAY ON SKIS
Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
THE HOUSE ACROSS THE LAKE
D: Ken Hughes. CAST: Alex Nicol, Hillary Brooke, Susan Stephen, Sidney James,
Alan Wheatley, Paul Carpenter, Hugh Dempster, Peter Illing, John Sharpe,
Joan Hickson, Gordon Macleod, Monti de Lyle, Cleo Rose, Howard Lang, Harry
Brunnings, Peter Evans, Angela Glynne, Christine Adrian. A man falls in love
with his neighbors wife and when the husband is knocked unconscious in a
fall, they throw him overboard. When she leaves the man for her real lover
he vows to confess. British Time: 68 minutes. US Time: 70 minutes.
LIFE WITH THE LYONS
D: Val Guest. CAST: Ben Lyon, Bebe Daniels, Barbara Lyon, Richard Lyon, Hugh
Morton, Horace Percival, Molly Weir, Doris Rogers, Gwen Lewis, Arthur Hill,
Belinda Lee. Day to Day life with the Lyons as they attempt to establish
a new residence in London's West End. This film was based on the successful
LIFE WITH LYONS BBC radio broadcast. This was actually Hammer studios first
major hit. British Time: 81 minutes. US time: 78 minutes.
MASK OF DUST
D: Terence Fisher. CAST: Richard Conte, Mari Aldon, George Coulouris, Peter
Illing, Alex Mango, Meredith Edwards, James Copeland, Jeremy Hawk, Richard
Marner, Edwin Richfield, Tom Turner, Stirling Moss, Reg Parnell, John Cooper,
Geoffrey Taylor, Leslie Marr. Hammer's attempt at cashing in on the hot rod
movies that were becoming popular in the US. A race car driver attempts to
prove he hasn't lost his ability against all odds. British Time: 79 minutes.
US Time: 69 minutes.
THE MEN OF SHERWOOD FORREST
D: Val Guest CAST: Don Taylor, Reginald Beckwith, Eileen Moore, David King
Wood, Douglas Wilmer, Harold Lang, Ballard Berkeley, Wensley Pithy, Leslie
Linder, John Van Eyssen, Toke Townsley, Vera Pearce, John Stuart, John Kerr.
Raymond Rollett, Leonard Sachs, Howard Lang, Jackie Lane, Tom Bowan, Bernard
Bresslaw, Michael Godfrey, Dennis Wyndham, Jack McNaughton, Patrick Holt.
Hammer's first color feature. After King Richard is seized during the crusades,
Prince John takes the throne. Plans to free the king are intercepted and
a man is killed with Robin Hood being blamed. Robin is captured but is freed
in time to rescue the king. 77 minutes.
THE MIRROR AND MARKHEIM
D: John Lamont. CAST: Philip Saville, Arthur Lowe, Ruth Sheil, Lloyd Lamble,
Christopher Lee, Marius Goring. Hammer short subject. A young man has a change
of heart about a crime his is planning on committing. Based on a Robert Louis
Stevenson story. This was Christopher Lee's first association with Hammer
Films. 25 minutes.
POLO
Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
THE STRANGER CAME HOME
D: Terence Fisher. CAST: William Sylvester, Paulette Goddard, Patrick Holt,
Paul Carpenter, Alvys Maben, Russell Napier, David King Wood, Pat Owen, Kay
Callard, Jeremy Hawk, Jack taylor, Kim Mills, Owen Evans, Philip Lennard.
A man, missing for three years, returns to his wife to find her involved
with three different men. When each man dies the blame begins to point towards
her husband. 80 minutes.
36 HOURS
aka: TERROR STREET
D: Montgomery Tully. CAST: Dan Duryea, Elsy Albiin, Ann Gudron, Eric Pohlman,
John Chandos, Kenneth Griffith, Harold Lang, Jane Carr, Michael Golden, Marianne
Stone, John Wynn, Russell Napier, Jacqueline Mackenzie, John Warren, Stephen
Verco, Robert Henderson, Gabrielle Blunt, Sheila Berry, Cleo Rose, Christine
Adrian, Robert O'Neal, Angela Glynn, Richard Ford, Kenneth Brown, Lee Paterson.
When an Air Force pilot visits his estranged wife he is attacked and his
wife is killed and he becomes a prime suspect. British Time: 84 minutes.
US Time: 80 minutes
ARCHERY
Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
A BODY LIKE MINE
A couple breaks up and gets back together again when the man wins a fortune.
Hammer short subject. 15 minutes.
BREAK IN THE CIRCLE D: Val Guest. CAST: Forrest Tucker, Eva Bartok, Marius Goring, Reginald Beckwith, Eric Pohlmann, Guy Middleton, Arnold Marle, Fred Johnson, David King-Wood, Guido Lorraine, Andre Mikhelson, Stanley Zavic, Marne Maitland, Derek Prentice. Two men who make a living delivering contraband are hired to smuggle a a scientist out of Germany in the Hammer could war thriller. British Time: 91 minutes. US Time: 69 minutes.
CYRIL STAPLETON AND THE SHOW BAND
D: Michael Carreras. Filmed in Cinemascope, this musical featurette focused
on bandleader Cyril Stapleton. 30 minutes
THE GLASS CAGE
aka: THE GLASS TOMB
D: Montgomery Tully. CAST: John Ireland, Honor Blackman, Geoffrey Keen, Eric
Pohlmann, Sidney James, Liam Redmond, Sidney Tatler, Valerie Vernon, Arnold
Marle, Nora Gordon, Sam Kydd, Ferdy Mayne, Tonia Bern, Arthur Howard, Stan
Little, Anthony Richmond. Blackmail and murder in a small time sleazy carnival.
59 minutes.
DICK TURPIN-HIGHWAYMAN
D: David Paltenghi. CAST: Philip Friend, Diane Hart, Alan Cuthbertson, Gabrielle
May, Hal Osmond, Raymond Roulette, Norman Mitchell, John MacDonald, George
Mossman, Barry DuBoulay, Ivor Collins, D. Thomas, Terry Yorke, Tom Yeardye.
Hammer short subject. Hammer's fictionalized acout of robbert Dick Turpin.
22 minutes.
ERIC WINSTONE'S STAGECOACH
D: Michael Carreras. Filmed in Cinemascope. Hammer short subject. No further
information on this film at this time.
THE LYONS IN PARIS
D: Val Guest. Ben Lyon, Bebe Daniels, Barbara Lyon, Richard Lyon, Horace
Percival, Molly Weir, Doris Rogers, Gwen Lewis, Hugh Morton, Riginald Beckwith,
Martine Alexis, Pierre Dudan, Dino Galvani. The Lyons travel to Paris and
comedy begins when Ben is thought to be having a trist with a French actress.
81 minutes.
A MAN ON THE BEACH
D: Joseph Losey. CAST: Michael Medwin, Donald Wolfit, Michael Ripper, Edward
Forsyth, Alex de Gallier. Hammer short subject. A man, posing as a woman,
robs a casino in this crime drama. 29 minutes.
MURDER BY PROXY
aka: BLACKOUT
D: Terence Fisher. CAST: Dane Clark, Belinda Lee, Betty Ann Davies, Eleanor
Summerfield, Andrew Osborn, Harold Lang, Jill Medford, Alvis Maben, Michael
Golden, Alfie Bass. A drunk is picked up by a woman who offers him 500 dollars
to marry her. When he wakes up the next morning he finds that the woman is
beleived to have been murdered and that he has no reccollections of the previous
night. 87 minutes.
PARADE OF THE BANDS
D: Michael Carreras. Hammer short subject. No further information on this
film at this time.
THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT
aka: THE CREEPING UNKNOWN
D: Val Guest CAST: Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Richard Wordsworth, Margia
Dean, Richard Wordsworth, David King Wood, Thora Hird, Gordon Jackson, Harold
Lang, Lionel Jeffries, Maurice Kauffman, Gron Davies, Stanley Van Beers,
Frank Philips, Arthur Lovegrove, John Stirling, Eric Corrie, Margaret Anderson,
Henry Longhurst, Michael Godfrey, Fred Johnson, George Roderick, Ernest Hare,
John Kerr, John Wynn, Toke Townley, Bartlett Mullins, Molly Glessing, Mayne
Lynton, Harry Brunsing, Barry Lowe, Jane Aird, Sam Kydd, Arthur Gross, James
Drake, Edward Dane, Basil Dignam, Betty Impry, Marianne Stone.. The first
in HAMMER'S popular QUATERMASS films concerns the return of a manned rocketship
from space. There is only one survivor but there is something terribly wrong
with him as he gradually transforms into a horrible creature. This was based
on the popular BBC-TV serial by Nigel Kneale and was originally released
in England as THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT. The Creeping Unknown was released
in 1955 in England but it wasn't released in the U.S. until 1956. THE QUATERMASS
XPERIMENT is an important film in the Hammer canon because it began a trend
for them-the combination of sci-fi themes with a horror element. The film
is superior to other genre films of it's day on many levels. It was also
the first film score for James Bernard who would create the fantastic DRACULA
themes and score many of Hammer's best films. Sequel: ENEMY FROM SPACE. For
Detailed information on the QUATERMASS FILMS check out
THE QUATERMASS
HOME PAGE. British Time: 82 minutes. US Time: 78 minutes.
THE RIGHT PERSON
D: Peter Coles. CAST: Margo Loren, Douglas Wilmer, David Markham. Hammer
short subject filmed in CinemaScope. A woman begins to fear that her husband
may have been a notrious traitor to the Nazis during World War II. 30 minutes
SETTING THE PACE
Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
THIRD PARTY RISK
aka: DEADLY GAME
D: Daniel Brit. CAST: Lloyd Bridges, Finlay Currie, Maureen Swanson, Simone
Silva, Ferdy Mayne, Peter Dyneley, Roger Delgado, George Woodbridge, Leslie
Wright, Mary Parker, Seymour Green, Toots Pounds, Patrick Westwood, Russell
Walters. An author discovers an international plot to steal a valuable chemical
formula after he has a reunion with an old wartime friend. British Time:
70 minutes. US Time: 63 minutes.
BELLES ON HER TOES
Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
BREAK IN THE CIRCLE
D: Val Guest CAST: Forrest Tucker, Eva Bartok, Marius Goring, Guy Middleton,
Arnold Marle, Eric Pohlman, Reginald Beckwith. Politcal thriller about a
fishing boats attempts to smuggle a German scientist into Britain. 91 minutes.
COPENHAGEN
D: Michael Carreras. Narrated by Tom Conway Filmed In Cinemascope. 16 minutes
travelogue filmed in Cinemascope showing off the sights of Copenhagen.
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
THE MAGIC CARPET
D: Patrick Young. Hammer short subject. No further information on this film
at this time.
PLEASURE HUNT
D: Patrick Young. Hammer short subject. No further information on this film
at this time.
X-THE UNKNOWN
D: Leslie Norman. Dean Jagger, Leo McKern, William Lucas, Edward Chapman,
Anthony Newley, Peter Hammond, John Harvey, Michael Ripper, Ian MacNaughton,
Kenneth Cope, Marianne Brauns, Fraser Hines, Edwin Richfield, Jameson Clark,
Jane Aird, Michael Brook, Neil Hallet, Norman Macowan, Neil Wilson, John
Stone, Archie Duncan, John Stirling, Shaw taylor, Frank Taylor, Brown Derby,
Max Brimmell, Robert Bruce, Stella Kemball, Anthony Sager, Phillip Levene,
Barry Steel, Lawrence James, Brian Peck, Edward Judd, Ste[henson Lang. Often
confused as another entry in the QUATERMASS SERIES, this intelligent sci-fi
film was written by Jimmy Sangster. It concerns a growing peice of radioactive
mud that destroys all life in it's path as it searches out new radioactive
areas to feed. This was Sangster's, Hammer's production manager, first
screenplay. He would soon be scripting many of the classic Hammer sci-fi/horror
films. 78 minutes.
WOMEN WITHOUT MEN
aka: BLONDE BAIT D: Elmo Williams. CAST: Beverly Michaels, Joan Rice,
Thora Hird, Avril Angers, Ralph Michael, April Orlich, Gordon Jackson, Valerie
White, David Lodge, Harmoine Baddeley, Bill Shine, Paul Carpenter, Sheila
Burrell, John Welsh, Maurice Kauffman, Eugene Deckers, Muriel Young, Olwen
Brookes, Betty Cooper, Doris Gilmore, Fanny Carby, Yvonne manners, Michael
Golden, Anthony Miles, Mark Kingston, Verne Morgan, Charles Saynor, Toots
Poiund, Babs Love, Vi Stevens, H. Westwater, Joan Harrison, Pat Edwards,
Edna Lander, Stratfort John, Sidney Brahms, Dopuglas Argent, Irene Richmond,
George Roderick, Thomas Glen, Margaret Flint, Valerie Fraser, Mona Lillian,
Anne Loxley, John Phillips, Oscar nation, Katherine Feliaz, Pauline Winter.
Hammer's attempt at a women in prison film. The film was retitled BLONDE
BAIT for US release and was distributed by Associated Film Releasing. The
US version is drastically different from the British print. Original footage
was deleted and new footage was shot with the follwing American cast: Jim
Davis, Richard Travis, Paul Cavanagh, and Harry Lauter. Beverly Michaels
was also recalled to shoot some new scenes with Jim Davis. This was Hammer's
only feature to begin production in 1955. British Time: 73 minutes. US Time:
71 minutes.
THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN
aka: THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN OF THE HIMALAYAS D: Val Guest. CAST: Peter
Cushing, Forrest Tucker, Richard Wattis, Maureen Connell, Robert Brown, Michael
Brill, Wolfe Morris, Arnold Marle, Anthony Chin. Intelligent tale of an
expedition to find the legendary Yeti. This often neglected film deserves
another look and is, quite simply, the best version of any film about the
abominable snowman. Thought-proviking ending. Based on the BBC-TV serial.
This was originally released in HAMMERSCOPE, a widescreen process similar
to Cinemascope. 91 minutes.
CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN
D: Terence Fisher CAST: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Hazel Court, Robert
Urquhart, Valerie Gaunt, Noel Hood, Melvyn Hayes, Sally Walsh, Paul Hardtmuth,
Fred Johnson, Claude Kingston, Alex Gallier, Patrick Troughton, Michael
Mulcaster, Hugh Dempster, Anne Blake, Marjorie Hume, Henry Caine, Joseph
Berman, Raymond Rollett, Ernest Jay, J. Trevor Davis, Bartlett Mullins, Eugene
Leahy.. Excellant adaptation of the Mary Shelley classic novel. This was
the film that put HAMMER FILMS on the map. Peter Cushing is terrific as the
amoral Baron Frankenstein who becomes so obsessed with the creation of life
that he looses sight of all else. Chris Lee is his creation, a hideously
scarred creature. This was the first of Hammer's long running Frankenstein
series that was followed with REVENGE OF FRANKKENSTEIN. The release of CURSE
OF FRANKENSTEIN caused an attack by critics in the US and Britain alike who
called the film vulgar, one going so far as to say "For Sadists Only". The
public openly embraced the film allowing it to gross $8 million. That was
almost 30 times more than the production cost. 83 minutes
DANGER LIST
D: Leslie Arliss. CAST: Philip Friend, Honor Blackman, Mervyn Jones, Constance
Fraser, Alexander Field, Muriel Zillah, Amanda Coxell, Evelyn Gregg, Pailine
Olsen, Jeremy Longhurst, Patricia Cree, David Browning, George Hirste. Hammer
short subject. A nurse suspects murder after one of her outpatients dies.
22 minutes.
DANGEROUS DRUGS
Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
DAY OF GRACE
D: Francis Searle. CAST: Vincent Winter, John Lawrie, Grace Arnold, George
Woodbridge, Nora Gordon, David Grahame, Jeanne of Bothkennar (a sheepdog).
Hammer short subject. A man decides to put his aging sheepdog to sleep but
has a change of heart. 26 minutes
THE EDMUNDO ROS HALF-HOUR
D: Michael Carreras. Filmed in Cinemascope. Hammer short subject. No further
information on this film at this time.
ITALIAN HOLIDAY
Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
KEEPING FIT WITH YOGA
Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
MAN WITH A DOG
D: Leslie Arliss. CAST: Clifford Evans, Maurice Denham, Sarah Lawson, John
Van Eyssen, Marianne Stone, Jan Holden, Margaret Boyd, Malcolm Knight, Anthony
Ford, Andrew Mott-Harrison, Clive Marshall. Hammer short subject. A young
man feers that a leg operation will not allow for proper care of his pets.
20 minutes.
QUATERMASS 2
aka: ENEMY FROM SPACE
D: Val Guest CAST: Brian Donlevy, Michael Ripper, Sidney James, Bryan Forbes,
John Longden, Vera Day, William Franklyn, Charles Lloyd Pack, Tom Chatto,
John Van Eyssen, Percy Herbert, John Rae, Marianne Stone, Ronald Wilson,
Jane Aird. Betty Impey, Lloyd Lamble, John Stuart, Gilbert Davies, Joyce
Adams, Edwin Richfield, Howard Williams, Philip Baird, John Fabin, Robert
Raikes, George Merritt, ArthurBlake, Michael Balfour, Jan Holden. This sequel
to THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT (THE CREEPING UNKNOWN) has England shutting down
their space program to concentrate on a new military base that it is soon
discovered is a front for an alien take-over of earth. Similar in theme to
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. Sequel: FIVE MILLION YEARS TO EARTH. For
Detailed information on the QUATERMASS FILMS check out
THE QUATERMASS
HOME PAGE 85 minutes.
SEVEN WONDERS OF THE WORLD
Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
STEEL BAYONET
D: Michael Carreras. CAST: Leo Genn, Keiron Moore, Michael Medwin, Robert
Brown, Michael Caine, Michael Ripper, John Paul, Shay Gorman, Tom Bowman,
Bernard Horsfall, John Watson, Arthur Lovegrove, Percy Herbert, Paddy Joyce,
Jack Stewart, David Crowley, Barry Lowe, Michael Dear, Ian Whittaker, Michael
Balfour. One of Hammer's military films about a unit that is defending a
deserted farmhouse at all costs. Michael Caine has a very small role as a
German Soldier. Released in HAMMERSCOPE. 85 minutes
SUNSHINE HOLIDAY
Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
YOGA AND THE AVERAGE MAN
Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
YOGA AND YOU
Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
BLUE HIGHWAY
D: Patrick Young. Hammer short subject. No further information on this film
at this time.
CAMP ON BLOOD ISLAND (1958)
D: Val Guest. CAST: Andre Morrell, Carl Mohner, Edward Underdown, Michael
Goodliffe, Richard Wordsworth, Michael Gwynn, Marne Maitland, Mary Merrall,
Barbara Shelley, Walter Fitzgerald, Phil Brown, Ronald Radd, Edwin Richfield,
Wolfe Morriss, Milton Reid, Geoffrey Bayldon, Lee Montague, Peter Wayn, Michael
Brill, Barry Lowe, Max Butterfield, Jack MacNaughton, Howard Williams, Michael
Dea, Michael Ripper, Anthony Chin, Takai, S. Goh, Jimmy Raphael, David Goh,
Don Lee, Mary Merrall, Lillian Sottane, Grace Russell, Jan Holden, Betty
Cooper, Ann Ridler, Jacqueline Curtiss. Effective war film about the atrocites
of a Japanese prison camp. Created a minor controversy when originally released
for brief moments of brutality. 82 minutes.
CATHAY PACIFIC
D: Patrick Young. Hammer short subject. No further information on this film
at this time.
CLEEN SWEEP
D: Maclean Rogers. CAST: Eric Barker, Thora Hird, Vera Day, Ian Whittaker,
Wallas Eaton, Bill Fraser. Hammer comeday featurette about a couple and their
marital woes. 29 minutes.
DRACULA
aka: HORROR OF DRACULA D: Terence Fisher. CAST: Peter Cushing, Christopher
Lee, Melissa Stribling, Michael Gough, Carol Marsh, John Van Eyssen, Valerie
Gaunt, Miles Malleson, Olga Dickie, Janine Faye, Barbara Archer, Charles
Lloyd Pack, George Merritt, George Woodbridge, George Benson, Geoffrey Balydon,
Paul Cole, Guy Mills. Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee are perfectly cast
as Vampire Hunter Van Helsing and the evil Count Dracula in this retelling
of the Bram Stoker novel. Though not very faithful to the original story
(has there ever really been a DRACULA that was) this horror thriller is helped
emmensely by the fantastic musical score by James Bernard. Like CURSE OF
FRANKENSTEIN, DRACULA met with the critics attaching it for going to far.
Some suggesting that it should forget the British X Certificate rating and
be rated "S" for sadistic or "D" for disgusting. The film is tame in comparison
to the onslaught of today's horror films but HORROR OF DRACULA and CURSE
OF FRANKENSTEIN helped to pave the way for those films. After the release
of HORROR OF DRACULA the path was set for Hammer studios. The public would
want to see their horror films because they were like no others. Followed
by BRIDES OF DRACULA. 82 minutes.
FURTHER UP THE CREEK
D: Val Guest. CAST: David Tomlinson, Frankie Howerd, Shirley Eaton, Thora
Hird, Lionel Jeffries, Lionle Murton, Sam Kydd, John Warren, David Lodge,
Harry Landis, Ian Whittaker, Howard Williams, Peter Collingwood, Edwin Richfield,
Amy D'Alby, Esma Cannon, Tom Gill, Jack LeWhite, Max Day, Mary Wilson, Katherine
Byrne, Eric Pohlmann, Stanley Unwin, Michael Goodliffe, Wilfe Morris, John
SInger, Larry Nobel, Ballard Berkeley, Judith Furse, Michael Ripper, Joe
Gibbon, Victor Brooke, Cavan Malone, Desmond Llewellyn, Basil Dignam, John
Stuart, Jess Condrad, Patrick Holt, George Herbert, Charles Lloyd Pack, Walter
Hudd, John Hall. After the successful UP THE CREEK, also released in 1958,
Hammer quickly puched out this sequel. A British ship is sold to the Algeroccan
governemnt and the crew decides to make some money on the dside by promoting
it's final voyage as a one-way luxury voyage. The Liuetenant Commander is
told that the passengers are actually diplomats. Once this ship reaches the
Algerrocan shores everything goes wrong because the country is undergoing
a revolution. 91 minutes.
I ONLY ARSKED
D: Montgumery Tully. CAST: Bernard Bresslaw, Michael Medwin, Alfie Bass,
Geoffrey Sumner, Charles Hawtrey, Norman Rossington, David Lodge, Arthur
Howard, Marne Maitland, Michael Bentine, Francis Matthews, Michael Ripper,
Wilfe Morris, Ewen McDuff, Marie Devereux, Lizabeth Page, Claire Gordon,
Barbara Pinney, Pamela Chamberlain, Jean Rainer, Clarissa Roberts, Gales
Sheridan, Josephine Jay, Andrea Loren, Rebecca Wilson, Anna Griffiths, Pauline
Chamberlain, Jennifer Mitchell, Julie Shearing, Maureen Moore. Anne Muller,
Pamela Searle. A squadron of losers is sent to protect British Oil Interests
and get mixed up with a bevy of Harem Girls in this Hammer comedy. The cast
was taken from THE ARMY GAME, a popular Granada TV series. 82 minutes.
THE REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN
D: Terence Fisher. CAST: Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson,
Michael Gwynn, Lionell Jeffries, John Welsh, Oscar Quitak, Richard Wordsworth,
Charles Lloyd Pack, John Stuart, Arnold Diamond, Margery Cresley, Anna Walmsley,
George Woodbridge, Michael Ripper, Ian Whittaker, Avril Leslie, Michael
Mulcaster. In spite of the fact that Baron Frankenstein was beheaded in the
first film, the popularity of CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN demanded a sequel. This
film begins explaining how the Baron escaped the guillotine and, with the
help of a hunchback assitant and a young medical student, Baron Frankenstein
returns with a vengeance. Followed by EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN. 91 minutes.
THE RIVIERA EXPRESS D: Patrick Young. Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
THE SNORKEL
D: Guy Green. CAST: Peter Van Eyck, Betta St. John, Mandy Miller, Gregory
Aslan, William Franklyn, Henry Vidon, Marie Burke, Irene Prador, Robert Rietty,
Armand Guinie, David Ritch. A man murders his wife and makes it appear to
be a suicide. The daughter thinks that her step-father murdered her mother
and begins to try and prove it. He decides that a second murder/suicide is
in order. British Time: 90 minutes. US Time: 74 minutes.
UP THE CREEK
D: Val Guest. CAST: David Tomlinson, Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde White, Vera
Day, Liliane Sottane, Tom Gill, Michael Goodliffe, Reginald Beckwith, Lionel
Murton, John Warren, Lionel Jeffries, Howard Williams, Peter Collingwood,
Barry Lowe, Edwin Richfield, David Lodge, Max Butterfield, Malcolm Ransom,
Sam Kydd, Frank Pentingell, Donald Bister, Leonard Fenton, Basil Dignam,
Peter Coke, Jack McNaughton, Larry Noble, Patrick Cargill, Michael Ripper.
Hammer comedy about a British ship that is running a racketeering game from
on board and a Captain that is to involved in amourous pursuits to notice
it. 83 minutes.
DON'T PANIC CHAPS
D: George Pollock. CAST: Dennis Price, George Cole, Thorley Walters, Harry
Fowler, Nadja Regin, Nicholas Phipps, Percy Herbert, George Murcell, Gerlan
Klauber, Terence Alexander, Thomas Foulkes. Another Hammer wartime farce.
This was based on a radio play andwas quickly turned into a Hammer project.
It concerns an island post that both the British and the Germans occupy.
85 minutes.
THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
D: Terence Fisher. CAST: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Andre Morrell, Maria
Landi, Miles Malleson, John LeMesurier, David Oxley, Francies De Wolff, Ewen
Solon, Sam Kydd, Helen Goss, Judie Moyens, Dave Birks, Michael Mulcaster,
Michael Hawkins, Ian Hewitson, Elizabeth Dott.. While not very faithful to
the original A. Conan Doyle story it does certainly capture the feel and
atmosphere beter than other film adaptations with Peter Cushing excellant
as the cold and calculating Sherlock Holmes. Lee, after playing the creature
in CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN and Dracula in HORROR OF DRACULA was surprising
cast in in the role of Sir Henry Baskerville. This version leans more towards
horror elements. 84 minutes.
THE MUMMY
D: Terence Fisher CAST: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Yvonne Furneaux,
Eddie Byrne, Felix Aylmer, Raymond Huntley, George Pastell, Michael Ripper,
John Stuart, Harold Goodwin, Dennis Shaw, Willoughby Gray, Stanley Meadows,
Frank Singuineau, George Woodbridge, Frank Sieman, Gerald Lawson, John Harrison,
James Clarke, David Browning. Hammer nicely returns to the Universal Monster
series of Kharis Mummy films with this stylish chiller. Christopher Lee is
the Mummy. Plans were also announce to remake THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and
THE INVISIBLE MAN when THE MUMMY went into production. PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
was made in 1962 but, unfortunately, THE INVISIBLE MAN never made it to the
screen. 88 minutes.
THE MAN WHO COULD CHEAT DEATH
D: Terence Fisher. CAST: Anton Diffring, Hazel Court, Christopher Lee, Arnold
Marle, Delphi Lawrence, Francis De Wolff, Gerda Larsen, Middleton Woods,
Michael Ripper, Denis Shaw, Ian Hewitson, Frederick Rawlings, Marie Burke,
Charles Lloyd Pack, John Harrison, Lockwood West, Ronald Adam, Barry Shawzin.
Hammer Studioes turned to THE MAN IN HALF MOON STREET for this remake about
a man who discovers a deadly way to stop the aging process. 83 minutes.
OPERATION UNIVERSE
D: Peter Bryan. Filmed in Scope. Hammer short subject. No further information
on this film at this time.
TICKET TO HAPPINESS
Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
YESTERDAY'S ENEMY
D: Val Guest. Stanley Baker, Guy Rolfe, Leo McKern, Gordon Jackson, David
Oxley, Richard Pasco, Russell Waters, Philip Ahn, Bryan Forbes, Wolfe Morris,
Edwina Carroll, David Lodge, Percy Herbert, Barry Lowe, Alan Keith, Howard
Williamds, Timothy Bateson, Arthur Lovegrove, Donald Churchill, Nichols Brady,
Barry Steele. One of Hammer's serious mainstream productions. Set in Burma
during World War II, this film depicts the real atrocities of war where men
turn into heartless killers for the cause of the War. The film was met with
critical praise but, sadly, the film never picked up an audience. 95 minutes.
THE UGLY DUCKLING
D: Lance Comfort. CAST: Bernard Bresslaw, Reginald Beckwith, Jon Pertwee,
Maudie Edwards, Jean Muir, Richard Wattic, David Lodge, Elwyn Brook-Jones,
Michael Ripper, Harold Goodwin, Norma Marla, Keith Smith, Michael Ward, John
Harvey, Jess Conrad, Mary WIlson, Jeremy Phillips, Vicky Marshall, Alan
Coleshill, Jill Carson, Jean Driant, Nicholas Tanner, Shelagh Day, Sheila
Hammond, Verne Morgan, Ian WIlson, Cyril Chamberlain, Ian Ainsley, Reginald
Marsh, Roger Avon, Richard Statman, Robert Desmond, Alexander Dore. Hammer
ingeniously reworked THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE into this
tale of a gang of jewel theives with a somewhat awkward member who discovers
a formula that turns him into a a suave gangster. This film has apparently
vanished and no prints are known to exist. It is said to be a comedy similar
to Jerry Lewis' THE NUTTY PROFESSOR (1963). 84 minutes.
BRIDES OF DRACULA (1960)
D: Terence Fisher. CAST: Peter Cushing, David Peel, Martita Hunt, Yvonne
Monlaur, Andree Melley, Freda Jackson, Mona Washbourne, Henry Oscar, Miles
Malleson, Victor Brooks, Fred Johnson, Michael Ripper, Norman Pierce, Vera
Cook, Marie Devereux, Harold Scott, Michael Mulcaster. For years Christopher
Lee fans have tried to dismiss this film from the official canon of
Hammer/Dracula films but that is impossible to do. This is a direct sequel
to HORROR OF DRACULA (DRACULA) and the opening monologue makes that very
clear. The is one of Hammer's most stylish vampire films making excellant
use of shadow and color hues. Richly atmospheric and certainly the most erotic
of the early Hammer vampire films. The recent remastering and release of
the film on laserdisc and video only enhances the beauty of this film. 85
minutes.
HELL IS A CITY
D: Val Guest. CAST: Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Donald Pleasence, Maxine
Audley, Billie Whitelaw, Joseph Tomilty, Vanda Godsell, Geoffrey Frederick,
Sarah Branch, George A. Cooper, Charles Houston, Joby Blanshard, Charles
Morgan, Peter Madden, Dickie Owen, Lois Dane, Warren Mitchell, Alastair
Williamson, Russell Napier. A Hammer police drama about jewel robbers who
turn murderers. This film is one of director Val Guest's personall favorites.
British Time: 98 minutes. US Time: 93 minutes.
NEVER TAKE SWEETS FROM A STRANGER
D: Cyril Frankel. Gwen Watford, Patrick Allen, Felix Aylmer, Niall MacGinnis,
Alison Leggatt, Bill Bagy, MacDonald Parke, Michael Gwynn, Bud Knapp, Janine
Faye, Francis Green, Ja,es Dyrenforth, Estelle Brody, Robert Arden, Vera
Cook, Cal McCord, Gaylord Cavalaro, Sheila Robins, Larry O'Connor, Helen
Horton, Shirley Butler, Michael Hammond, Patricia Marks, Peter Carlisle,
Mark Baker, Sonia Fox, John Bloomfield, Charles Maunsell, Andre Daker, Bill
Sawyer, Jack Lynn, William Abney, Tom Bushby. While Hammer is not known for
serious message films, they did manage to make a few. This one concerns the
taboo subject of pedophilia and a community, while aware of the problem,
chooses to ignore it rather than stop it until it is to late. The film was
received with mixed results, many applauding the film because it wasn't
exploitive at all and delivered a moving message of a little discussed problem.
The Production Code Administration in the United States originally regected
this film for release but later recanted and said "This [NEVER TAKE SWEETS
FROM A STRANGER] is a perennial social problem treated with moral caution
and without sensationalism." 81 minutes.
THE STRANGLERS OF BOMBAY
D: Terence Fisher. CAST: Allan Cuthbertson, Andrew Cruickshank, Marne Maitland,
Goy Rolfe, Paul Strassino, Jan Holden, Tutte Lemkow, George Pastell, Paul
Stassino, David Spenser, John Harvey, Roger Delgado, Marie Devereux, Michael
Nightingal, Margaret Gordon, Steven Scott, Jack McNaughton, Ewen Solon, Mongoose.
Very different action orientated film for Hammer Studios about an Idian Cult
creating havoc for the British at a trading station. This film was originally
released in Megascope (2.35:1) but called Stranglescope for the release of
this film. 81 minutes.
SWORD OF SHERWOOD FOREST
D: Terence Fisher. CAST: Richard Greene, Peter Cushing, Richard Pasco, Sarah
Branch, Nial MacGinnis, Nigel Green, Dennis Loris, Jack Gwillim, Oliver reed,
Edwin Richfield, Vanda Godsell, Brian Rawlinson, Patrick Crean, Derren Nesbitt,
Reginald Hearne, Jack Cooper, Adam Kean, Desmond Llewellyn, Charles Lamb,
Aiden Grennell, James Neylin, Barry De Boulay, John Hoey, Andrew McMaster,
John Franklin, Maureen Halligan. After Robin Hood helps a wounded man a trap
is set for him by the Sheriff of Nottingham. This film was released in December
of 1960 in England and in January of 1961 in the US. 96 minutes.
THE TWO FACES OF DR. JEKYLL
aka: HOUSE OF FRIGHT
D: Terence Fisher. CAST: Paul Massie, Dawn Addams, Christopher Lee, David
Kossoff, Francis De Wolff, Norma Marla, Joy Webster, Magda Miller, Oliver
Reed, William Kendall, Pauline Shepherd, Helen Goss, Dennis Shaw, Felix Felton,
Janine Faye, Percy Cartwright, Joe Robinson, Joan Tyrill, Douglas Robinson,
Donald Tandy, Frank Atkinson, Arthur Lovegrove. Interesting variation of
the oft filmed Jekyll/Hyde story. Oliver Reed has a small part as a bouncer.
Originally released in MegaScope (2.35:1). 88 minutes.
VISA TO CANTON
D: Michael Carreras. CAST: Richard Basehart, Lisa Gastoni, Athene Seyler,
Eric Pohlmann, Allan Gifford, Bernard Cribbins, Burt Kwouk, Hedgar EWallace,
Marne maitland, Milton Reid, Yvonne Shima, Robert Lee, Zoreem Ismail, Paula
Lee Shiu, Soraya Rafat, Gerry Lee Yen, Ronald Ing. An American running a
travel agency in Hong Kong turns spy to locate the missing grandson of a
woman who aided him during World War 2. 75 minutes.
CASH ON DEMAND
D: Quentin Lawrence. CAST: Peter Cushing, Andre Morell, Richard Vernon, Barry
Lowe, Norman Bird, Edith Sharpe, Charles Morgan, Kevin Stoney, Alan Haywood,
Lois Daine, Vera Cook, Gareth Tandy, Fred Stone. A very different variation
of A CHRISTMAS CAROL finds a petty bank manager discovering a change of heart
when one of his staff deceives him in order to rob the bank. The film began
production in 1961 and was released in the United States in December of that
year as a Christmas Entry by Columbia Pictures. For some reason the film
was delayed a British release until December of 1963 where it was trimmed
by almost 20 minutes. British Time: 66 minutes. US Time: 84 minutes.
CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF
D: Terence Fisher. CAST: Clifford Evans, Oliver Reed, Yvonne Romain, Anthony
Dawson, Catherine Feller, Richard Wordsworth, Warren Mitchell, Michael Ripper,
Desmond Llewellyn, Peter Sallis, Hira Talfrey, Francis De Wolff, George
Woodbridge, John Gabriel, Ewen Solon, Sheila Brennan, Martin Matthews, David
Conville, Anne Blake, Denis Shaw, Josephine Llewellyn, Justin Walters, Renny
Lister, Joy Webster, John Bennett, Charles Lamb, Desmong Llewellyn, Gordon
Whiting, Hamlyn Benson, Serafina DeLeo, Kitty Attwood, Howard Lang, Stephen
W. Scott, Max Butterfield, Ray Browne, Frank Siernan, Michael Peake, Rodney
Burke, Alan Page, Richard Golding, Michael Lewis, Loraine Caruana. Oliver
Reed is the werewolf in this unique interpretation from Hammer. The film
manages to capture an eerie look with stunning use of colors. Very loosely
based on the novel THE WEREWOLF OF PARIS by Guy Endore. 88 minutes.
THE FULL TREATMENT
aka: STOP ME BEFORE I KILL
D: Val Guest. CAST: Claude Dauphin, Diane Cilento, Ronald Lewis, Francoise
Rosay, Bernard Braden, Katya Douglas, Barbara Chilcott, Ann Tirard, Edwin
Styles, George Merritt. The beginnings of Hammer's Psycho thrillers. A man
suffering from a mental breakdown had things compounded by his recent marraige
and his psychiatrists interest in his new wife. Released in Megascope (2.35:1)
British Time: 109 minutes. US Time: 93 minutes.
O'HARA'S HOLIDAY
D: Peter Bryan. Filmed in Scope. Hammer short subject. No further information
on this film at this time.
HIGHWAY HOLDIAY
Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
LAND OF THE LEPRECHAUNS
Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
MODERN IRELAND
Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
NATIONAL SPORTING CLUB
Hammer short subject. No further information on this film at this time.
SHADOW OF THE CAT
D: John Gilling. CAST: Andre Morell, Barbara Shelley, Freda Jackson, William
Lucas, Conrad Phillips, Alan Wheatley, Andrew Crawford, Catherine Lacey,
Vanda Godsell, Richard Warner, Henry Kendall, Kynaston Reeves, John Dearth,
Fred Stone, George Doonan, Charles Stanley, Vera Cook, Rodney Burke, Howard
Knight, Kevin Stoney, Angela Crow, Tabatha (the cat). A woman is murdered
with the only witness being a cat. Slowly, under the watchful eyes of the
cat, her murder is avenged. This film is missing from Hammer filmographies
and it doesn't have any indication in the credits that it is really a Hammer
film however writer-producer George Baxt as well as the current Hammer Films
management all confirm that this film was indeed a Hammer production. It
was released as the bottom half of a double bill with CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF.
79 minutes.
TASTE OF FEAR
aka:SCREAM OF FEAR
D: Seth Holt. CAST: Susan Strasberg, Christopher Lee, Ann Todd, Ronald Lewis,
John Serrit. Leonard Sachs, Anne Blake, Fred Johnson, Bernard Brown, Richard
Klee, Mme Lobegue. Excellant Hammer thriller about a young woman who keeps
seeing her father's corpse while being told that he is away on a trip. Scripted
by Jimmy Sangster. British Time: 90 minutes. US Time: 81 minutes.
THE TERROR OF THE TONGS
D: Anthony Bushell. CAST: Geoffrey Toone, Burt Kwouk, Brian Worth, Christopher
Lee, Richard Leech, Yvonne Monlaur, Marne Maitland, Ewen Solon, Barbara Brown,
Bandance Dao Gupta, Michael Hawkins, Marie Burke, Milton Reid, Charles Lloyd
Pack, Roger Del Gado, Eric Young, Johnny Arlen, Santso Wong, Andy Ho, Arnold
Lee. A Captain searchs for the killers of his daughter and discovers the
secret Tong society in Hong Kong. Excellant thriller. This film was originally
released to theaters in Black and White but was shot in color. TV prints
are usually the color version. 79 minutes.
A WEEKEND WITH LULU
D: John Paddy Carstairs. CAST: Shirley Eaton, Leslie Phillips, Bob Monkhouse,
Alfred Marks, Irene Handl, Heidi Erich, Sally Douglas, Marie Devereux, Eve
Eden, Jannette Rowsell. A couple borrows their friends van named Lulu for
a Holiday and find themselves in France without a visa. Harmless Hammer comedy.
British time: 89 minutes. US Time: 91 minutes.
WATCH IT, SAILOR
D: Wolf Rille. CAST: Dennis Price, Liz Fraser, Irene Handle, Graham Stark,
Vera Day, Marjorie Rhodes, Cyril Smith, John Meillon, Frankie Howard, Miriam
Karlin, Arthur Howerd, Renee Houston, Brian Reece, Bobb Howes, Harry Locke,
William Mervyn, Marianne Stone, Diane Aubrey. Another of Hammer's comedy
involving the military involves confusion between a couple and their repreated
attempts at getting married. 89 minutes.
CAPTAIN CLEGG
aka: NIGHT CREATURES
D: Peter Graham Scott. CAST: Peter Cushig, Yvonne Romain, Patrick Allen,
Oliver Reed, Michael Riper, Martin Benson, David Lodge, Derek Francis, Milton
Reid, Jack MacGowran, Daphne Anderson, Peter Haliday, Terry Scully, Sydney
Bromley, Rupert Osborne, Gordon Rollings, Bob Head, Colin Douglas. Hammer's
fun and often exciting remake of DR. SYN (1937). A local parson in also the
leader of a band of pirates who pose as ghosts. Disney also made a version
of the story titled THE SCARECROW OF ROMNEY MARSH. 82 minutes.
THE OLD DARK HOUSE
D: William Castle. CAST: Tom Poston, Robert Morley, Janette Scott, Joyce
Grenfell, Mervyn Johns, Fenella Fielding, Peter Bull, Danny Green John Harvey,
Amy Dalby. An unusual pairing of schlock-meister William Castle and the lush
production of Hammer Films combine to make this bizarre comedy remake of
the 1932 James Whale film THE OLD DARK HOUSE which starred Boris Karloff.
The original film was based on the book BENIGHTED by J.B. Priestley. This
film bears little to no resemblance to the book but is just slightly sick
enough to be mildly amusing.
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
D: Terence Fisher. CAST: Herbert Lom, Heather Sears, Thorley Walters, Edward
DeSouza, Michael Gough, Miles Malleson, Ian Wilson, Martin Miller, John Harvey,
Miles Malleson, Marne Maitland, Michael Ripper, Patrick Troughton, Renee
Houston, Sonya Cordeau, Liane Aukin, Leila Forde, Geoff L'Oise, Miriam Karlin,
Harold Goodwin, Keith Pyott. Lovely to look at, 3rd screen version of the
classic tale of unrequited love. Hammer's version is lush in colors with
Lom giving a fine portrayal of the betrayed and love smitten Phantom. Much
more lavish than most Hammer productions. Beware of the TV prints that add
a subplot expanding the film from 84 to 94 minutes. The US padded footage
also includes the cast members, Liam Redmond and John Maddison. British Time:
94 minutes. US Time: 94 minutes.
THE PIRATES OF BLOOD RIVER
D: John Gilling. CAST: Kerwin Matthews, Glenn Corbett, Christopher Lee, Marla
Landi, Oliver Reed, Andrew Keir, Peter Arne, Michael Ripper, Jack Stewart,
David Lodge, Marie Devereux, Diane Aubrey, Jerold Wells, Dennis Waterman,
Lorraine Clewes, John Roden, Desmon Llewelyn, Keith Pyott, Richard Bennett,
Michael Mulcaster, Denis Shaw, Michael Peake, John Colin, Don Levy, John
Bennett, Ronald Blackman. A band of pirates seizes control of a village because
of rumors of a secret treasure hidden there. British Time: 84 minutes. US
Time: 87 minutes.
THE DAMNED
aka: THESE ARE THE DAMNED
D: Joseph Losey. CAST: MacDonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Viveca Lindfors,
Alexander Knox, Oliver Reed, James Villiers, Walter Gotell, Kenneth Cope,
Thomas Kempinski, Brian Oulton, Barbara Everest, Alan McCleland, James Maxwell,
Rachel Clay, Caroline SHeldon, Rebecca Dignam, Siobhan Taylor, Nicholas Clay,
Kit Williams, Christopher Witty, David Palmer, John Thompson, David Gregory,
Anthony Valentine, Larry Martyn, Leon Garcia, Jeremy Phillips. A motorcycle
gang in England has a confrontation with an American that turns very bizarre
when nine strange children are encountered who have been part of a radiation
experiment. This film sat on the shelf for 2 years before being released
even though the subject of radiation experimentation was a current controversial
matter. Production on the film ended on June 22, 1961. The film wasn't released
until May 20 of 1963. Released in Hammerscope (2.35:1) British Time: 87 minutes.
US Time: 77 minutes.
KISS OF THE VAMPIRE
aka: KISS OF EVIL
D: Don Sharp. CAST: Clifford Evans, Noel Willman, Edward de Souza, Jennifer
Daniel, Barry Warren, Jacquie Wallis, Isobel Black, Peter Madden, Vera Cook,
Noel Howlett, Stan Simmons, Brian Oulton, John Harvey, Olga Dickie, Margaret
Read, Elizabeth Valentine. A honeymooning couple falls under the spell of
a vampire who seeks to make the new bride his own. The film was heavily cut
for US release and then new footage was shot to pad out the short running
time. This version was released as KISS OF EVIL and should be avoided. Additional
cast in US version: Virginia Gregg, Sheilah Wells and Carl Esmond. KISS OF
EVIL was released in the US in 1963. KISS OF THE VAMPIRE wasn't released
in England until January of 1964. 88 minutes.
MANIAC
D: Michael Carreras. CAST: Kerwin Matthews, Nadia Gray, Donald Houston, Liliane
Brousse, George Pastell, Arnold Diamond, Norman Bird, Justine Lord, Jerold
Wells, Leon Peers. After a young girl is rapped her father murders the attacker
with an acetylene torch. He is institutionalized for his crime but escapes
four years later knowing that his wife is now involved with another man.
Good hammer suspenser that was a new direction for Kerwin Matthews. Released
in Megascope. 87 minutes.
PARANOIAC
D: Freddie Francis. CAST: Janette Scott, Oliver Reed, Liliane Brousse, Alexander
Davion, Sheila Burrell, Maurice Denham, John Bonney, John Stuart, Colin Tapley,
Harold Lang, Laurie Leigh, Marianne Stone, Sydney Bromley, Jack Taylor. Murder
and mayhem plague an aristocratic family in England. Excellant thriller.
Released in Cinemascope (2.35:1). 80 minutes.
THE SCARLET BLADE
D: John Gilling. CAST: Lionel Jeffries, Oliver Reed, Jack Hedley, June Thornburn,
Duncan Lamont, Suzan Farmer, Michael Ripper, Charles Houston, Harold Goldblatt,
Clifford Elkin, Michael Byrne, John Harvey, John Stuart, Harry Towb, Robert
Rietty, John H. Watson, Douglas Blackwell, Leslie Glazer, John Wodnutt, Eric
Corrie, Denis Holmes. This Hammer film delves into the Cromwell era with
excellant use of costumes and set design as well as fine performances by
Lionel Jeffries and Oliver Reed. The film focuses more on the moral dilemma
than on swash-buckling making this a fine entry in the Hammer canon. Released
in Hammerscope. 82 minutes.
THE CURSE OF THE MUMMY'S TOMB
D: Michael Carreras. CAST: Ronald Howard, Terence Morgan, Fred Clark, Jeanne
Roland, George Pastell, Jack Gwillim, John Paul, Dickie Owen, Michael McStay,
Bernard Rebel, Jill Mae Meridith, vernon Smythe. Slow-moving as the mummy
itself. Members of an exhibition are killed by a mummy who is acting on the
demands of his equally eternal brother. This film was released on a double
bill with THE GORGON. The studio used a promotional gimmick of giving away
black stamps to theater patrons. Filmed in Techniscope. 80 minutes.
DEVIL-SHIP PIRATES
D: Don Sharp. CAST: Christopher Lee, John Cairney, Barry Warren, Ernest Clark,
Natasha Pyne, Suzan Farmer, Andrew Keir, Duncan Lamont, Michael Ripper, Charles
Houston, Harry Locke, Michael Newport, Peter Howell, Jack Rodney, Philip
Latham, Leonard Fenton, Barry Linehan, Bruce Beeby, Michael Peake, Johnny
Briggs, Joseph O'Connor, Annette Whiteley, June Ellis. Villagers revolt when
a ship from the Spanish Armada docks for repairs and attempts to seize control.
Excellant Hammer costume adventure. Filmed in Hammerscope. 86 minutes.
EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN
D: Freddie Francis. CAST: Peter Cushing, Peter Woodthorpe, Sandor Eles, Duncan
Lamont, Katy Wild, David Hutcheson, Caron Gardner, Tony Arpino, James Maxwell,
Alister Williamson, Frank Forsythe, Kenneth Cove, Michele Scott, Howard Goorney,
Anthony Blackshaw, David Conville, Timothy Bateson, Kiwi Kingston, Derek
Martin, Robert Flynn, Anthony Poole, James Garfield. Baron Frankenstein and
his assitant Hans return to his home village and discover that his home has
been robbed by the village Burgomeister. They also find that his original
creature still exists (looking nothing like the Christopher Lee creature)
causing them to rivive the creature. This film marked a pairing of the original
Universal series and Hammer which allowed them to use the original concept
make-up by Jack Pierce. The use of plots from the Universal films works well
but the monster's make-up by Roy Feeston is ludicrous. British Time: 84 minutes.
US Time: 86 minutes.
THE GORGON
D: Terence Fisher. CAST: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley,
Richard Pasco, Michael Goodliffe, Patrich Troughton, Jack Watson, Jeremy
Longhurst, Sally Nesbitt, Prudence Hyman, Toni Gilpin, Redmond Phillips,
Joseph O'Connor, Alister Williamson, Joyce Hemson, Michael Peake. This was
Hammer's first female monster. Drawing on Greek mythology, the film focuses
on an English village who is plagued with their men turning into stone. Someone
is hiding a secret and latest victims father is hell-bent on discovering
what that horrible secret is. British time: 87 minutes. US Time: 83 minutes.
NIGHTMARE
D: Freddie Francis. CAST: David Knight, Moira redmond, Brenda Bruce, Jennie
Linden, George A. Cooper, Irene Richmond, John Welsh, Timothy Bateson, Clytie
Jessop, Hedgar Wallace, Julie Samuel, Elizabeth Dear, Isla Cameron. A young
girl fears that she will go mad after learning that she witnessed her mother
murder her father when she was eleven. William Castle released a similar
themed film (STRAIGHT-JACKET) the same year. Released in Hammerscope. 82
minutes.
THE BRIGANDE OF KANDAHAR
D: John Gilling. CAST: Oliver Reed, Ronald Lewis, Duncan Lamount, Glyn Houston,
Yvonne Romain, Catherine Woodville, Ingo Jackson, Sean Lynch, Walter Brown,
Jeremy Burnham, Caron Gardner, Henry Davies, John Southward, Jo Powell..
Hammer adventure film set at an Indian Outpost in the 1850's. Filmed in
Hammerscope. 81 minutes.
FANATIC
aka: DIE! DIE! MY DARLING
D: Silvio Narizzano. CAST: Tallulah Bankhead, Stefanie Powers, Peter
Vaughn, Maurice Kauffman, Yootha Joyce, Donald Sutherland, Gwendolyn Watts,
Robert Dorning, Philip Gilbert, Diane King, Winifred Dennis. A young woman
goes to visit the mother of her former boyfriend who was killed in a car
accident. She soon discovers that she is a prisoner in the home of this woman,
now a religious fanatic who is trying to purge her of her sins. Not the typical
Hammer horror film but at least they took the psycho-thriller back to a horror
theme giving a fun and somewhat twisted film.British Time: 96 minutes. US
Time: 105 minutes.
HYSTERIA
D: Freddie Fancis: CAST: Robert Webber, Anthony Newlands, Jennifer Jayne,
Maurice Denham, Lelia Goldoni, Peter Woodthorpe, Sandra Boize, Sue Lloyd,
John Arnatt, Marianne Stone, Irene Richmond, Kiwi Kingston. A man tries to
recover his past after an auto accident leaves him with amnesia in this,
the last of the Hammer Psycho-thrillers. 85 minutes.
THE NANNY
D: Seth Holt. CAST: Bette Davie, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett, James Villiers,
William Dix, Pamela Franklin, Jack Watling, Maurice Danham, Alfred Burke,
Nora Gordon, Sandra Power, Harry Fowler, Angharad Aubrey. Everything is not
as it appears when a young boy is returned to his family from an institution
after it was beleived that he drowned his young sister. Excellant Hammer
thriller with Davis giving a fine performance as The Nanny. 93 minutes.
THE SECRET OF BLOOD ISLAND D: Quentin Lawrence. Barbara Shelley, Jack Hedley, Charles Tingwell, Bill Owen, Michael Ripper, Patrick Wymark, Peter Welch, Lee Montague, Edwin Richfield, Glyn Houston, David Saire, Philip Latham, Ian Whittaker, John Southward, Peter Craze, Henry Davies. A hard-hitting film about the atrocities performed against British POW's in a Japanese prison camp. The film as actually a prequel to THE CAMP ON BLOOD ISLAND filmed seven years before. 84 minutes.
SHE
D: Robert Day. CAST: Ursula Andress, Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, John
Richardson, Christopher Lee, Rosenda Monteros, Andre Morrell, John Maxim,
Soraya, Julie Mendez, Lisa Peake, Cherry Larman, Bula Coleman, Oo-Bla-Da
Dancers. The classic adventure story by H. Rider Haggard was a natural for
Hammer and this film about the immortal Ayesha, She Who Must be Obeyed, shows
what can be done with a limited budget. The fantasy elements are intact and
the film is beautifully photographed. Released in CinemaScope. 104 minutes.
DRACULA-PRINCE OF DARKNESS
D: Terence Fisher. CAST: Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Andrew Keir, Francis
Matthews, Suzan Farmer, Charles Tingwell, Thorley Walters, Philip Latham,
Walter Brown, George Woodbrisge, Jack Lambert, Philip Ray, Joyce Hemson,
John Maxim. This film, a direct sequel to HORROR OF DRACULA, begins with
the finla moments of that film. The story then focuses on a pair of traveling
couples who become invited to a Castle, not knowing that they will revive
the evil Count Dracula. Christopher Lee returned to the role of the Count
for this picture and would remain with them until THE LEGEND OF THE SEVEN
GOLDEN VAMPIRES. Lee has no dialogue in the film. Filmed in Techniscope.
90 minutes
ONE MILLION YEARS B.C.
D:: Don Chaffey. CAST: Raquel Welch, John Richardson, Percy Herbert, Robert
Brown, Martine Beswick, Jean Waldon, Lisa Thomas, Malya Napil, Richard James,
William Lyon Brown, Frank Hayden, Terence Maidment, Micky De Rauch, Yvonne
Horner. Hammer's remake of ONE MILLION B.C. is their first and most effective
of their dinosaur/caveman films. The story concerns the confrontation of
two tribes, one peace loving and the other warlike. Besides seeing Raquel
running around in her bikini-like costume the film is immensely helped by
the fantastic special effects work of
Ray Harryhausen.
When his stop-motion work appears on the screen it becomes the real star
of the film. The was also Hammer's most expensive production to date and
it's biggest gamble. The US and British prints of the film are somewhat different
and the British print is really the one to watch. British Time: 100 minutes.
US Time: 91 minutes.
PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES
D: John Gilling. CAST: Andre Morrell, Diane Clare, Jacqueline Pearce, John
Carson, Alex Davion, Michael Ripper, Marcus Hammond, Dennis Chimnery, Louis
Mahoney, Roy Royston, Ben Aris, Tim Condron, Bernard Egan, Norman Mann, Francis
Willey, Jerry Verno, Jolyan Booth, Del Watson, Peter Diamond. A doctor is
investigating a plague that has infected a Cornish village. His investigation
leads him to the discovery that the plague leaves it's victims in a zombie/living
dead state. Similar in theme to the Lugosi classic WHITE ZOMBIE, there are
far more chills in this film including a most effective resurrection sequence.
This film was paired with DRACULA-PRINCE OF DARKNESS for release. It was
shot back to back with THE REPTILE. 90 minutes.
RASPUTIN-THE MAD MONK
D: Don Sharpe. CAST: Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley, Richard Pasco, Francis
Matthews, Suzan Farmer, Dinsdale Landen, Renee Asherton, Derek Francis, Alan
Tilvern, Joss Ackland, John Welsh, Robert Duncan, John Bailey. While not
very historically accurate, this is one of the most fun film versions of
the life of Rasputin, a demented monk who brought corruption to the his=ghest
levels of Czarist Russia. This was Lee's favorite role in a Hammer film.
Production began on this film immediately after DRACULA-PRINCE OF DARKNESS
had finished and many of the sets from that film were only slightly altered
for this production. Filmed in Cinemascope. 92 minutes.
THE REPTILE
D: John Gilling. CAST: Noel Williamson, Jennifer Daniel, Ray Barrett, Jacqueline
Pearce, Michael Ripper, John laurie, Marne Maitland, David Baron, Charles
Lloyd Pak, Harold Goldblatt, George Woodbridge. Hammer's second female monster
film concerns a young girl who has fallen under the curse of an ancient spell
that turns her into a reptile woman. Effective make-up and atmospheric settings
make this quite enjoyable. THE REPTILE began production immediately after
PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES utilizing the same sets. It a smooth marketing move
the film was paired with RASPUTIN THE MAD MONK and PLAGUE was paired with
DRACULA-PRINCE OF DARKNESS. Both RASPUTIN and DRACULA used the same sets.
The separating of the two films and pairing with PLAGUE and REPTILE would
not allow viewers to notice the similarities in sets as quickly. 91 minutes.
THE WITCHES
aka: THE DEVIL'S OWN
D: Cyril Frankel. CAST: Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh, Alex McCowen, Ann Bell,
Ingrid Brett, John Collin, Michele Dotrice, Gwenn F. Ffrancon-Davies, Duncan
Lamont, Leonard Rossiter, Martin Stephens, Carmel McSharry, Viola Keats,
Shelagh Fraser, Bryan Marshall. A fragile schoolteacher tries to start a
new life in a British school only to discover that witchcraft is running
rampant through the village of ther students. Excellant Hammer thriller based
on the Peter Curtis novel THE DEVIL'S OWN.
A CHALLENGE FOR ROBIN HOOD
D: C. Pennington-Richards. CAST: Barrie Ingham, James Hayter, Leon Greene,
John Arnatt, Alfie Bass, Donald Pickering, Gay Hamilton, Peter Blythe, Jenny
Till, Eric Flynn, John Gugolka, Reg Lye, William Squire, Eric Woofe, Douglas
Mitchell, John Graham, Norman Mitchell. Hammer gives another slant to the
Robin Hood legend. OK adventure film. 96 minutes.
FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN
D: Terence Fisher. CAST: Peter Cushing, Susan Denberg, Thorley Walters, Robert
Morris, Peter Blythe, Barry Warren, Derek Fowlds, Alan MacNaughton, Peter
Madden, Kevin Flood, Philip Ray, Ivan Beavis, Colin Jeavons, Bartlett Mullins,
Alec Mango, Duncan Lamount, Stuart Middleton, John Maxim. The Frankenstein
legend gets a new twist in this bold film for Hammer. After an assitant of
Frankenstein is hung for murder, the assitant's disfigured girlfriend commits
suicide. Baron Frankenstein places the soul of his assitant in the body of
the girl who has commited suiced turning her into a voluptuos woman who uses
her body to attract those responsible for her lover's death and kill them.
92 minutes.
THE MUMMY'S SHROUD
D: John Gilling. CAST: John Phillips, Andre Morrell, David Buck, Elizabeth
Sellars, Maggie Kimberly, Michael Ripper, Tim Barrett, Roger Delgado, Catherine
Lacey, Eddie Powell, Dickie Owen, Richard Warner, Bruno Barnabe, Toni Gilpin,
Toolsie Persaud, Andrea Malandrinos. The tomb of an ancient mummy is opened
and, of course, a curse is violated. It's a very stylish looking film, but
like most mummy films, it's just fails to move. British Time: 84 minutes.
US Time: 90 minutes.
QUATERMASS AND THE PIT
aka: FIVE MILLION YEARS TO EARTH D: Roy Ward Baker. CAST: James Donald,
Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley, Julian Glover, Duncan Lamont, Bryan Marshall,
Peter Copley, Edwin Richfield, Grant Taylor, Maurice Good, Robert Morris,
Sheila Staefel, Hugh Futcher, Hugh Morton, Thomas Heathcote, Noel Howlett,
Hugh Manning, June Ellis, Keith Marsh, James Culliford, Bee Duffell, Roger
Avon, Brian Peck, John Graham, Charles Lamb. The last and best of the Hammer
Quatermass films. An object is found buried deep underground while constructing
the British subway system. At first beleived to be a German missile left
from World War II it is soome discovered that the object is something more
and that it might just unlock the key to the origin of man on earth. Excellant
Hammer sci-fi. This film was not released in the US until 1968. For Detailed
information on the QUATERMASS FILMS check out
THE QUATERMASS
HOME PAGE. British Time: 100 minutes. US Time: 98 minutes.
SLAVE GIRLS
aka: PREHISTORIC WOMEN
D: Michael Carreras. CAST: Martine Beswick, Edina Ronay, Michael Latimer,
Stephanie Randall, Carol White, Alexandra Stevenson, Yvonne Horner, Sydney
Bromley, Frank Hayden, Robert Raglan, Mary Hignett, Louis Mahoney, Bari Johnson,
Danny Daniels, Steven Berkoff. This film was the next production Hammer underwent
after ONE MILLION YEARS B.C. Though filmed in 1966, it sat on the shelf for
a year before seeing a U.S. release and wasn't released in England until
1968. Rightfully so because this is an incredibly bad picture. A hunter discovers
a prehistoric land ruled by Amazon women. The American version runs the full
95 minutes while the British version runs 74 minutes. While most purists
would want to see the film in it's original running time the shorter British
version will save the veiwer 20 minutes of pure tedium. Filemd in Cinemascope.
THE VIKING QUEEN
D: Don Chaffey. CAST: Don Murray, Carita, Donald Houston, Andrew Keir, Adrienne
Corri, Niall MacGinnis, Wilfrid Lawson, Nicola Pagett, Percy Herbert, Patrick
Troughton, Sean Caffrey, Denis Shaw, Philip O'Flynn, Brendan Matthews, Gerry
Alexander, Patrick Gardiner, Paul Murphy, Arthur O'Sullivan, Cecil Sheridan,
Anna Mannahan, Nita Lorraine, Bryan marshall, Jack Rodney. Loosely based
on the historical account of Queen Boadicea, this adventurous Hammer flick
might have been somewhat appealing with a different cast. As it is, it stands
as an unremarkable film from a time when Hammer was producing it's most
profittable films. Hammer also had a knack for releasing their least memorable
films in the Cinemascope process. 91 minutes.
THE ANNIVERSARY
D: Roy Ward Baker. CAST: Bette Davis, Jack Hedley, James Cossins, Sheila
Hancock, Elaine Taylor, Christian Roberts, Timothy Bateson, Arnold Diamond,
Albert Shepherd, Ralph Watson, Sally Jane Spencer. Davis is a one-eyed mother
who calls her family together to celebrate the ten year anniversary of the
death of her husband in this black comedy. 95 minutes.
THE DEVIL RIDES OUT
aka: THE DEVIL'S BRIDE
D: Terence Fisher. CAST: Christopher Lee, Charles Gray, Nike Arrighi, Leon
Greene, Patrick Moyer, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Sarah Lawson, Paul Eddington,
Rasalyn Landor, Russell Waters. A young man is lured into a satanic cult
while his friends try to rescue him from the cult in this excellant adaptation
of Dennis Wheatley's novel. The casting for the film is excellant as is the
atmosphere. 95 minutes.
DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE
D: Freddie Francis. CAST: Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies, Veronica Carlson,
Barry Andrews, Barbara Ewing, Ewan Hopper, Marion Mathie, Michael Ripper,
George A. Cooper, John D. Collins, Chris Cunningham, Norman Bacon, Carrie
Baker. Dracula is revived when a Monsignor attempts to perform an exorcism
on Dracula's castle. Seeking revenge, Dracula marks the Monsignor's neice
as his next victim hoping to destroy his faith. This was Hammer Beauty Veronica
Carlson's first film for Hammer. Lee's returned to the role of Dracula as
a favor to the studio but protested the portrayal of the Dracula character.
Hammer's most classic villian was being reduced to a subplot in the films,
and it would only get worse after this film. The film was released in 1969
in the United States. 92 minutes.
THE LOST CONTINENT
D: Michael Carreras. Eric Porter, Hildegard Knef, Suzanna Leigh, Tony Beckley,
Nigel Stock, Meil McCallum, Benito Carrithers, Jimmy Hanley, James Cossins,
Dana Gillespie, Victor Maddern, Reg Lye, Norman Eshley, Michael Ripper, Donald
Sumpter, Alf Joint, Charles Houston, Shivendra Sinha, Darryl Read, Eddie
Powell, Frank Hayden, Mark Heath, Horace James. A tramp steamer carrying
illegal cargo and passengers gets lost at sea and finds itself trapped in
the seeweed infested area of the ocean. There they encounter weird creatures
and the survivors of the Spanish Inquisition who still rule with an iron
hand. This is one of my guilty pleasures in that there is more than a few
reasons to dismiss this film as pure fodder except for the fact that it is
played so seriously in spite of the plot giving the film a fun quality. British
Time: 98 minutes. US Time: 83 minutes.
THE VENGEANCE OF SHE
D: Cliff Owen. John Richardson, Olinka Berova, Edward Judd, Colin Blakely,
Jill Melford, George Sewell, Andre Morell, Noel Willman, Derek Godfrey, Daniele
Noel, Gerald Lawson, Derrick Sherwin, William Lyon Brown, Charles O'Rourke,
Zohra Segal, Christine Pockett, Dervis Ward. A dazed travellor comes to beleive
that she is the re-incarnation of the once immortal queen Ayesha in this
weak sequel to SHE. 101 minutes.
FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED
D: Terence Fisher. CAST: Peter Cushing, Veronica Carlson, Freddie Jones,
SImon Ward, Thorley Walters, Maxine Audley, George Pravda, Geoffrey Bayldon,
Colette O'Neil, Harold Goodwin, George Belbin, Norman Shelley, Frank Middlemass,
Michael Gover, Jim Collier, Alan Surtees, Timothy Davies, Peter Copley.
Frankenstein attempts to heal a fellow scientist's brain by placing it in
a new body and correcting the brain's disorder in the hopes of discovering
a secret that the scientist possessed. This film marked the real beginning
of Hammer's inclusion of sexual themes just for the sake of exploitation.
At the insistance of James Carrerras a rape sequence was added to the film
after production had begun. The sequence is totally out of character and
though both Cushing and Carlson fought against it the rape was filmed. It
was cut from the US version and the film is better without it. As a side
note, this is the film that was responsible for my love of Hammer films.
Although I had seen other Hammer films before, along with the many horror
films I flocked to the theater to see, I saw this when I was 13 and this
one triggered a spark that has yet to relinquish. For the first time I saw
the Hammer film as more than just another horror film. I began to recognize
the rich use of color and atmosphere. I was hooked and from that point on,
and Hammer film was a film worth watching. FRANKESNTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED
was released in the US in 1970. 97 minutes.
MOON ZERO TWO
D: Roy Ward Baker. CAST: James Olson, Catherina Von Schell, Warren Mitchell,
Adrienne Corri, Ori Levy, Dudley Foster, Bernard Bresslaw, Neal McCallum,
Michael Ripper, Robert Tayman, Sam Kydd, Keith Bonnard, Leo britt, Carol
Cleveland, Roy Evans, Tom Kempinski, Lew Luton, Claire Shenstone, Chrissie
Shrimpton, Amber Dean Smith, Simorie Silveria. This space-opera from hammer
owes more to the western genre than it does to science fiction. An asteroid
becomes the local for a shoot-out in space. The film is enjoyable in a Saturday
Matinee sort of way but Hammer simply didn't have the resources to make this
type of film and one cannot escape the reality that everything in the film
looks like it was shot in the confined space of a set rather in the vast
expanse of outer space. 100 minutes.
CRESCENDO
D: Alan Gibson. Stefanie Powers, James Olson, Margaretta Scott, Jane Lapotaire,
Joss Ackland, Kirsten Betts. An attempt at recreating the mood and success
of FANATIC (DIE! DIE! MY DARLING) is unsuccessfully made in this film about
a girl who is writing about a deceased composer and goes to stay with his
widow. Although production finished in August of 1969, CRESCENDO did not
find a release until June of 1970 in England and Novemeber of 1972 in the
US. British Time: 95 minutes. US Time: 83 minutes.
TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA
D: Peter Sasdy. CAST: Christopher Lee, Geoffrey Keen, Gwen Watford, Linda
hayden, Peter Sallis, Isla Blair, John Carson, Martin Jarvis, Anthony Corlan,
Ralph Bates, Roy Kinnear, Shirley Jaffee, Michael Ripper, Russell Hunter,
Reginald Barrett, Keith Marsh, Peter May, Madeline Smith, Lai Ling, Malaika
Martin. Three men who live outwardly for their reputation, seek also the
darker things in live. They make a pact to sell theirsould for the ultimate
pleasure. Each backing out of their pledge are now haunted by Dracula who
has come to avenge himself upon their family. Despite the fact that Dracula
is a mere subplot in this film, it become a financial success and does contain
some interesting variations. 95 minutes.
HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN
D: Jimmy Sangster. CAST: Ralph Bates, Kate O'Mara, Veronica Carlson, Dennis
Price, Joan Rice, Graham James, Bernard Archer, Jon Finch, Dave Prowse. Like
the Dracula films, Hammer was running out of ideas for their popular Frankenstein
series. In an attempt to resurrect the series they made this black comedy
version in the hopes of attracting a younger audience. Basically a reworking
of their own CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN the film does have a few amusing moments
and is something of a guilty pleasure amoung Hammer fans who often reluctantly
like to admit they like the film. It certaintly wasn't the Hammer film the
audience had come to expect but it wasn't that bad either. 95 minutes.
SCARS OF DRACULA
D: Roy Ward Baker. CAST: Christopher Lee, Jenny Hanley, Dennis Waterman,
Patrich Troughton, Chritopher Matthews, Anoushka Hempel, Wendy Hamilton,
Michael Gwynn, Delia Lindsay, Bobb Todd, Michael Ripper, Toke Townley, David
Lealand, Richard Durden, Morris Bush, Margot Boht. Once again Dracula is
resurrected to hold a town in his grip of terror while attempting to build
his disciples. This films has a very unique ending for the Count and one
would certainly have to wonder how he would or could be revived for another
film. 94 minutes.
VAMPIRE LOVERS
D: Roy Ward Baker. CAST: Ingrid Pitt, Pippa Steele, Madeline Smith, Peter
Cushing, Dawn Addams, Kate O'Mara, Douglas Wilmer, Jon Finch, Kirsten Betts,
John Forbes-Robinson, Harvey Hall, Ferdy Mayne, George Cole, Janey Key, Charles
Farrell. Based on the J. Sheridan Le Fanu story CARMILLA, Hammer broke new
ground and moved directly into the horror/exploitation field. New audiences
were looking for new thrills and the changing times allowed for more sex
and violence on the screen. Hammer was willing to deliver. A young girl moves
in with an aristocratic family and begins to seduce the daughter, first sexually
and then with vampirism. When a servant suspects the truth he summons Baron
Hatog and the search is on for the vampire. With the Dracula films running
out of ideas, this new move for Hammer was a perfect way to infuse new life
into a popular theme. British time: 91 minutes. US time: 89 minutes.
WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH
D: Val Guest. CAST: Victoria Vetri, Robin Hawdon, Patrick Allen, Drewe Henley,
Sean Caffrey, Magda Konopka, Imogen Hassall, Patrick Holt, Jan Rossini,
Carol-Anne Hawkins, Maria O'Brien, Connit Tilton, Maggie Lynton, Jimmy Lodge,
Billy Cornelius, Ray Ford. Hammer returns to the caveman/dinosaur genre with
this film. Similar in many ways to ONE MILLION YEARS B.C. it lacks a strong
cast and the special effects, while good, still do not measure up to
Harryhausen's work on the previous film. The stop-motion effects were created
by Jim Danforth. The film began production in 1968 but Danforth's work, which
was contracted to be finished in a year held up production by another 5 months
taking a total of 17 months to complete. It was released in 1970 in England
and 1971 in the US. British Time: 100 minutes. US Time: 96 minutes.
BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY'S TOMB
D: Seth Holt. CAST: Valerie Leon, Andrew Keir, James Villiers, Hugh Burden,
George Coulouris, Rosalie Crutchley, Aubrey Morris, David Markkham, Mark
Edwards, James Cossins, David Jackson, Joan Young, Penelope Holt, Anglea
Ginders, Tex Fuller, Madina Luis, Omar Amoodi, Abdul Kader, Ahmed Osman,
Oscar Charles, Soltan Lalani, Saad Ghazi. Adapted from one of Bram Stoker's
lesser known stories. A young girl becomes with vessel for the re-incarnation
of a mummy. Later remade as THE AWAKENING in 1980. Director Seth Holt died
during the making of this film and the directorial duties were finished by
Michael Carreras. Released in England in 1971 and in the US in 1972. 94 minutes.
COUNTESS DRACULA
D: Peter Sasdy. CAST: Ingrid Pitt, Nigel Greene, Sandor Eles, Maurice Denham,
Lesley-Anne Down, Patience Collier, Peter Jeffrey, Jessie Evans, Andrea Lawrence,
Leon Lissek, Susan Brodrick, Ian Trigger, Nike Arrighi, Peter May, John Moore,
Joan Haythorne, Marianne Stone, Charles farrell, Sally Adcock, Anne Stallybrass,
Paddy Ryan, Michael Cadman, Hulya Babus, Leslie Anderson, Biddy Hearne, Diana
Sawday, Gary Rich, Andrew Burleigh, Ismed Hassan, Albert Wilkinson. After
discovering that the blood of virgins can restore her youth, an aging baroness
resorts to murder and bloodlust. By now the lesbian theme was running rampant
through Hammer productions. The historical figure of Elizabeth Bathory became
a perfect target for the reigning king of horror films. Unfortunately this
film doesn't even begin to unfold the real horrors Bathory. Beware cut prints!!!
93 minutes.
CREATURES THE WORLD FORGOT
D: Don Chaffey. CAST: Julie Ege, Brian O'Shaughnessy, Robert John, Marcia
Fox, Rosalie Cruchley, Tony Bonner, Sue Wilson, Gerard Bonthuys, Josje Kiesouw,
Don Leonard, Beverly Blake, Doon Baide, Frank Hayden, Rosita Moulan, Fred
Scott, Ken Hare, Derek Ward, Hans Kiesouw, Leo Payne, Tamsin Millard, Christine
Hudson, Heinke Thater, Cheryl Stewardson, Trudy Inns, Samantha Bates, Debbie
Aubrey-Smith, Joan Boshier, Audrey Allen, Vera P. Crosdale, Mildred Johnston,
Lilian M. Nowag, Jose Rozendo, Jose Manuel, Mark Russell, Dick Swain, Alwyn
Van Der Merwe, Manuel Neto, Mike Dickman.. Weakest of the Hammer prehistoric
trilogy is really just a reworking of ONE MILLION YEARS B.C. without the
dinosaurs . 95 minutes.
DR. JEKYLL AND SISTER HYDE
D: Roy Ward Baker. CAST: Ralph Bates, Martine Beswick, Gerald Sim, Lewis
Fiander, Susan Brodrick, Dorothy Alison, Ivor Dean, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Philip
Madoc, Tony Calvin, Dan Meaden, Virginia Wetherall, Julia Wright, Geoffrey
Kenion, Irene Bradshaw, Anna Brett, Jackie Poole, Rosemary Lord, Perula Portell,
Pat Brackenbury, Liz Romanoff, Will Stampe, Roy Evans, Derek Steen, John
Lyons, Jeanette Wild, Bobby Parr, Neil Wilson. Hammer turned it's sights
back to the Robert Lewis Stevenson's novel once again this time with a unique
twist. This time, while searching for a formula to retain youth he creates
one that turns him into a woman. One would have thought that this film would
use exploitation more but this is really a more restrained film than the
other Hammer productions of the time. British Time: 97 minutes. Us Time:
95 minutes.
HANDS OF THE RIPPER
D: Peter Sasdy. CAST: Eric Porter, Anghaard Rees, Jane Merrow, Keith Bell,
Derek Godfrey, Dora Bryan, Marjorie Rhodes, Norman Bird, Katya Wyeth, Margaret
Rawlings, Elizabeth MacLennan, A.J. Brown, April Wilding, Anne Clune, Vicki
Woolf, Beulah Hughes, Tallulah Miller, Peter Munt, Philip Ryan, Molly Weir,
Charles Lamb, Marjie Lawrence, Barry Lowe, Lynda Baron, Ann Way. A young
girl living under that shadow that her father was Jack the Ripper and that
he had murdered her mother slowly falls under her fathers spell. This was
an excellant picture for Hammer proving that they still hadn't lost their
edge. Sever cuts had to be made for TV showings because of the violence and
extra footage was shot to fill the void. Severn Darden appears in the new
footage shot for TV. 85 minutes
LUST FOR A VAMPIRE
aka: TO LOVE A VAMPIRE
D: Jimmy Sangster. CAST: Ralph Bates, Barbara Jefford, Suzanna Leigh, Michael
Johnson, Yutte Stensgaard, Mike Raven, Helen Christie, David Healy, Michael
Brennan, Pippa Steele, Luan Peters, Christopher Cunningham, Judy Matheson,
Eric Chitty, Christopher Neame, Harvey Hall, Caryl Little, Jack Melford,
Erica Beale, Jackie Leapman, Melita Clarke, Patricia Weaver, Christine Smith,
Vivienne Chandler, Sue Longhurst, Melinda Churcher. Hammer pushes the sexual
content to the limit in this film about a man who poses as a school teacher
to learn of the Karnstein family. Once in the all-girls school he falls for
the resurrected Mircalla while the other girls in the school begin to die
at the hands of a vampire. This was the second film of the Carmilla/Karnstein
trilogy for Hammer. The film was trimmed for US release and the title was
changed for TO LOVE A VAMPIRE. 95 minutes.
ON THE BUSES
D: Harry Booth. Reg Varney, Doris Hare, Michael Robbins, Anna Karen, Stephen
Lewis, Bob Grant, Andrea Lawrence, Pat Ashton, Brian Oulton, Pamela Cundell,
Pat Coombs, Wendy Richards, Peter Madden, David Lodge, Brenda Gogan, Caroline
Dowdeswell, Eunice Black, Claire Davenport, Maggie McGrath, Jeanne Varney,
Nosher Powell, Tex Fuller, Terry Duggan, Anna Michaels, Norman Mitchell,
Ivor Salter, George Roderick, Gavin Campbell, David Rowlands, Hilda Barry,
Jeanette Wild, Moira Foot, Reginald Peters. After having abandoned comedy
films Hammer Studios saw the potential for a huge hit with the highly popular
ON THE BUSES TV show in England. In the film, two bus drivers protest the
new company policy of hiring women as bus drivers even though, by night,
they love women a bit too much. The film was never released in the United
States. 88 minutes.
TWINS OF EVIL
D: John Hough. CAST: Madeline Collinson, Mary Collinson, Peter Cushing, Kathleen
Byron, Dennis Price, Harvey Hall, Isobel Black, Damien Thomas, David Warbeck,
Alex Scott, Katya Wright, Luan Peters, Ingio Jackson, Judy Matheson, Sheelah
Wilcox, Kirsten Lindholm, Peter Thompson. The body of Mircalla is resurrected
to intiate the newest Count Karnstein into the realm of the undead. A puritan
Cult wants the corrupt count dead especially after the Count corrupts one
os his twin neices. This was the last, and by many standars, the best of
the Carmilla/Karnstein trilogy. 87 minutes.
CAPTAIN KRONOS, VAMPIRE HUNTER
D: Brian Clemens. CAST: Horst Janson, John Cater, Caroline Munroe, Ian Hendry,
John Carson, Shane Briant, Wanda Ventham, Lois Dane, William Hobbs, Brian
Tully, Robert James, Perry Soblosky, Paul Green Wood, Lisa Collings, John
Hollis, Susanna East, Stafford Gordon, Elizabeth Dear, Joanna Ross, Neil
Seiler, Olda Anthony, Gigi Gurpinar, Peter Davidson, Terence Sewards, Trevor
Lawrence, Jacqui Cook, Penny Price. Hammer attempted to revitalize their
Vampire films with this inventive swashbuckling Vampire flick. Stylish and
filled with dark humor as a sword-weilding vampir-hunter goes up against
a vampire who is robbing younf girls of their youth and beauty. Sequels were
planned but never realized. 91 minutes.
DEMONS OF THE MIND
D: Peter Sykes. Paul Jones, Patrick Magee, Yvonne Mitchell, Robert Hardy,
Gillian Hills, Michael Hordern, Kenneth J. Warren, Shane Briant, Virginia
Wetherell. A Baron placed his daughter in an insitution to vure the bad blood
that he sees as a longtime family curse. A bizarre but interesting Hammer
film that deals with the taboo subject of incest. 89 minutes.
DRACULA A.D.-1972
D: Alan Gibson. CAST: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham,
Christopher Neame, William Ellis, Marsha Hunt, Janet Key, Philip Miller,
Michael Kitchen, David Andrews, Caroline Munro, Lally Bowers. After Dracula
is killed in 1872, 100 years pass and the Count is revived in modern day
London. The decendant of Van Helsing still survives and becomes aware of
the Count's re-appearence but no one wil accept the idea of a real vampire.
In an attempt to update the series, Hammer moved the Count into modern settings
hoping to keep bringing in the younger audience. The rock group Stoneground
appears in the film.95 minutes.
FEAR IN THE NIGHT
D: Jimmy Sangster. CAST: Judy Geeson, Joan Collins, Ralph Bates, Peter Cushing,
Gillian Lind, James Cossins, John Brown, Brian Grellis. An unstable woman
begins to fear that she is being stalked in Hammer's variation of the classic
DIABOLIQUE (1954). The film has been release in a variety of forms and running
times ranging from 86 to 96 minutes. This was director Jimmy Sangster's last
film for Hammer.
MUTINY ON THE BUSES
D: Harry Booth. Reg Varney, Doris Hare, Anna Karen, Michael Robbins, Bob
Grant, Stephen Lewis, Pat Ashton, Janet Mahoney, Caroline Dowdeswell, Kevin
Brennan. In this sequel to ON THE BUSES, a driver wants to marry but
complications keep arrising that prevent him from following his plans including
a busload of zoo animals. Fun Hammer comedy. 88 minutes.
STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING
aka: TILL DAWN DO WE PART
D: Peter Collinson. CAST: Rita Tushingham, Shane Briant, Tom Bell, Annie
Ross, Katya Wyeth, James Bolam, Claire Kelly, Harold Berens, Tommy Godfrey,
Mavis Villiers, Lola Willard, John Clive, Tinker the dog. A young woman with
a Cinderalla complex falls for a a handsome young man not realizing that
he is a psychopath. 96 minutes.
VAMPIRE CIRCUS
D: Robert Young. CAST: Adrienne Corri, Thorley Walters, Robert Tayman, Anthony
Corlan, John Moulder-Brown, Laurence Payne, Richard Owens, Lynne Frederick,
Elizabeth Seal, Domini Blythe, Robin Hunter, Mary Wimbush, Lalla Ward, Robin
Sachs, Roderick Shaw, Barnaby Shaw, Christina Paul, Dave Prowse, Jane Darby,
Skip Martin, Milovan And Serena, John Brown, Sibylla Kay, Dorothy Frere,
Jason James, Arnold Locke, Sean Hewitt, Giles Phibbs, Bradford and Amoro.
The Vampire Count Mitterhouse places a curse on a village that begins to
find fullfillment when a travelling circus arrives. While tha Hammer DRACULA
series were the profitable and popular, the vampire films made outside the
series are the most innovative. Beware cut prints. British time: 87 minutes.
US time: 84 minutes.
FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL
D: Terence Fisher. CAST: Peter Cushing, Shane Briant, Madeline Smith, David
Prowse, John Stratton, Michael Ward, Elsie Wagstaff, Norman Mitchell, Clifford
Mollison, Patrick Throughton, Philip Voss, Chris Cunningham, Charles Lloyd
Pack, Lucy Griffiths, Bernard Lee, Sydney Bromley, Andrea Lawrence, Jerold
Wells, Sheila Dunion, Mischa De La Motte, Norman Atkyns, Victor Woolf, Peter
Madden, Janet Hargreaves, Winifred Sobine, Tony Harris. Baron Frankenstein
sets up practise in an insane asylum, the perfect cover for dismembering
bodies in hopes of creating a new life. This film would mark several last
for Hammer studios. This was their last Frankenstein film and the last Hammer
film for both director Terence Fisher and screenwriter Anthony Hings (aka
John Elder). British Time: 99 minutes. US time: 93 minutes.
HOLIDAY ON THE BUSES
D: Bryan Izzard. Reg Varney, Stephen Lewis, Doris Hare, Michael Robbins,
Anna Karen, Bob Grant, Wilfred Brambell, Kate Williams, Arthur Mullard, Quenie
Watts, Henry McGee, Adam Rhodes, Michael Sheard, Hal Dyer, Franco Derosa,
Gigi Gatti, Eunice Black, Maureen Sweeney, Sandra Bryant, Carolae Donoghue,
Tara Lynn, Alex Munro. This was the last of three films Hammer made as a
spin-off from the BBC series ON THE BUSES. This one keeps the cast but the
settings are in a camp. 85 minutes.
LOVE THY NEIGHBOR
D: John Robbins. CAST: Jack Smethurst, Rudolph Walker, Nina Baden-Semper,
Kate Williams, Bill Fraser, Charles Hyatt, Keith Marsh, Patricia hayes, Arthur
English, Tommy Godfrey, Melvyn Hayes, Azaad Ali, Clifford Millison, Lincoln
Webb, Andrea Lawrence, Norman Chappell, Dan Jackson, Anna Dawson, John Binden,
Lesley Goldie, Bill Pertwee, George Tovey, Berry Cornish, Pamela Cundell,
Annie Leake, Patrick Durkin, Horace James, Damaris Hayman, George Rodeick,
Nosher Powell, Isobell Hurll, Princess Tamara, Siobhan Quinlan, James beck,
Michael Sharvell-Martin, Kubi Chaza, Venicia Day, Corinne Skinner, Fred
Griffiths. Hammer turned to a BBC TV series once again for this feature film.
The plot concerns neighbors, a white couple and a black couple, whose husbands
war against one another because of predjudice. 85 minutes.
MAN AT THE TOP
D: Mike vardy. Cast: Kenneth Haigh, Nanette Newman, Harry Andrews, John Quentin,
Mary Maude, Danny Sewell, Paul Williamson, Margaret Heald, Angela bruce,
Charlie Williams, Anne Cunningham, William Lucas, John Collin, Norma West,
Tim Brinton, Clive Swift, Jaron Yalton, John Conten, Patrick McCann, Nell
Brennan. Hammer attempted to return to their crime drama films in this story
about a man who threatens a family with thier dark secret when he becomes
a part of their business. The film reflects an attitude of the time. 87 minutes.
NEAREST AND DEAREST
D: John Robbins. CAST: Hylda Baker, Jimmy Jewel, Eddie Malin, Madge Hindle,
Joe Gladwin, Norman Mitchell, Pat Ashton, Bert Palmer, Peter Madden, Norman
Chappell, Yootha Joyce, John Barrett, Adele Warren, Carmel Cryan, Sue Hammer,
Jamnie Collinge, Donald Bisset, Kerry Jewell, Nosher Powell. Hammer comedy
about the owners of Pickle factory and the obsession of one owner in getting
his siter married off so he can sell the busines. Like most of the Hammer
comedies this was originally a BBC TV show. 86 minutes.
THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA
aka: COUNT DRACULA AND HIS VAMPIRE BRIDES
D: Alan Gibson. CAST: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, William Franklyn, Michael
Coles, Joanna Lumley, Freddie Jones, Barbara Yo Ling, Valerie Ost, Richard
Vernon, Maurice O'Connell, Patrick Barr, Lockwood West, Peter Adair, Richard
Mathews, Maggie Fitzgerald, Mia Martin, Finnola O'Shannon, Pauline Peart,
Marc Zuber, Graham Reese, Ian Dewar, John Harvey, Paul Weston. Dracula, now
bored with his own immortality plans the ultimate revenge. First to take
Van Helsing's granddaughter as his new bride and then to infect the world
with a plague that will destroy all life, ending his supply of blood. 87
minutes.
THAT'S YOUR FUNERAL
D: John Robins. CAST: Bill Fraser, Raymond Huntley, David Battley, John Ronane,
Dennis Price, Sue Lloyd, Richard Wattis, Roy Kinnear, Eric Barker, Hugh Paddick,
John Sharp, Michael Ripper, Frank Thornton, Geoffrey Sumner, Dudley Foster,
Bob Todd, Peter Copley, Michael Robbins, Harry Brunning, Geraldine Burnett,
Stacy Davies, Michael Knowles, Verner Morgan, Carol Catkin, Ken Parry, Clifford
Mollison, Michael Sharvell-Martin, John J. Carney. Two funeral parlors compete
for customers which lead to a case of a mistaken casket, one containing marijuana
and the other a corpse. Another Hammer comedy based on a popular BBC TV series.
81 minutes.
THE LEGEND OF THE SEVEN GOLDEN VAMPIRES
aka: THE SEVEN BROTHERS MEET DRACULA
D: Roy Ward Baker. CAST: Peter Cushing, David Chiang, Julie Ege, Robin Stewart,
Shih Szu, John Forbes-Robinson, Robert Hanna, Chan Sen, James Ma, Lui Chia
Yung, Feng Ko An, Chen Tein Loong, Wong Han Chan. Hammer joined foreces with
the Shaw Brothers for the martial arts vampire film. Count Dracula takes
on a new form, that of an ancient oriental vampire, and begins a new reign
of terror in the Ping Kuei village. This film has often found ridicule amoung
fans of the vampire series but this was a perfect melding of the martial
arts films, which were popular at the time, and Hammer's vampire genre. The
film was released in Panavasion and must be seen that way. The US version
was altered and several scenes cut. Avoid that print. British time: 89 minutes.
US time: 83 minutes.
MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE D: John Robins. CAST: Richard O'Sullivan, Paula Wilcox, Sally Thronsett, Brian Murphy, Yootha Joyce, Doug Fisher, Peter Cellier, Patrick Newell, Aimi McDonald, Jack Smethurst, Rudolph Walker, Spike Milligan, Melvyn Hayes, Michael Ward, Bill Grundy, Berry Cornish, Norman Mitchell, Michael Robbins, Johnnie Briggs, Bill Pertwee, Bill Sawyer, Aubrey Morris, Arthur Lowe, Andria Lawrence, Julian Orchard, Damaris Hayman, Robert Dorning, Mark Rogers, Bill Maynard, Pauline Pearl, Arthur Hewlett, Annie Leake, Corinne Skinner. American audiences who are familiar with the TV series THREE'S COMPANY will immediately recognize the plot of this film since the US series was based on the British series MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE. A young man shares a room with two girls. They discover that a land developer wants take over their building the roomies help their landlords, the Ropers, stop the developer. This US series was developed virtually intact from the British series though the British series or this film has never been released to the US. 90 minutes.
SHATTER
D: Michael Carreras. CAST: Stuart Whitman, Ti Lung, Lily Li, Peter Cushing,
Anton Diffring, Yemi Ajibade, Liu Ka Yong, Huang Pei Chi, Liu Ya Ying, Lo
Wei, James Ma, Chiang Han, Kao Husing. Often over-looked as a Hammer film.
Once again joing with the Shaw brother Hammer studios produced this film
about a hit man who hides out in Hong Kong where he discovers that a hit
has been placed on him by a powerful drug lord. Roger Corman protege Monte
Hellman began direction on the film but was replaced by Michael Carreras
when things didn't go mutually well. The film was released in England in
1974 but didn't see a US release until 1976. 90 minutes.
TO THE DEVIL...A DAUGHTER
D: Peter Skyes. CAST: Richard Wydmark, Christopher Lee, Nastassia Kinski,
Honor Blackman, Michael Goodliffe, Denholm Elliott, Eva Marie Meinke, Anthony
Valentine, Petra Peters, Derek Francis, Isabella Telezynska, Constantin de
Guguel, Anna Bentinck, Frances de la Tour, Irene Prador, Brian Wilde, William
Rideoutt, Howard Goorney, Zoe Hendry, Mindy Benson, Jo Peters, Bobby Sparrow.
Based on the Dennis Wheatley book, this was the last Hammer horror film.
A priest attempts to bring the child of Satan into the world using his godchild
as the vessel. This film went into production in 1975 but wasn't released
until the next year. 92 minutes.
THE LADY VANISHES
D: Anthony Page. CAST: Elliott Gould, Cybill Shepherd, Angela Landsbury,
Herbert Lom, Arthur Lowe, Ian Carmichael, Gerald Harper, Jean Anderson, Jenny
Runacke, Vladek Sheybel, Madlena Nedeva, Wolf Kahler, Madge Ryan, Rosalind
Kinght, Jonathan Hackett, Barbara Markham. Hammer's version of the Ethel
L. White novel (previously filmed by Alfred Hitchcock) was the studios last
film. This film is actually a re-interpretation of the Hitchcock version
relying more on the comedic elements. The film went into production in 1978
but wasn't released until 1979. It was filmed in Panavision. 97 minutes.
Hammer's first venture into television was a failed one. Hammer produced pilot for the propsed series, TALES OF FRANKENSTEIN, in 1958 along with Screen Gems (a susidary of Columbia Pictures) in the hopes of launching a TV series. The pilot never was picked up and only the pilot for the series was ever shot.
THE FACE IN THE TOMBSTONE MIRROR D: Curt Siodmak. CAST: Don Megowan. Frankenstein transplanst the brain from one of his patients into the creature he has been working on in his laboratory.
Suspense Anthology
FIRST TELECAST: September 26, 1968
LAST TELECAST: January 30, 1969
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Joan Harrison
Executive producer Joan Harrison was known for her work on THE ALFRED
HITCHCOCK SHOW a decade earlier. Hammer joined forces with 20th-Century Fox
for the series which was produced at Elstree Studios These hour long broadcasts
featured psychological horrors along with tales of the supernatural. The
description for the individual shows was taken from HAMMER HOUSE OF HORROR
: BEHIND THE SCREAMS by Howard Maxford. The Overlook Press, 1996.
A collection of 13 horror stories that made use of familiar Hammer themes. Produced by Roy Skeggs for HAMMER/ATV. Each show ran an hour and was broadcast on late night TV in America. Many of these titles were released on THRILLER VIDEO as part of the Elvira hosted series. The videos are no longer available.
A series of 13 shows produced by Hammer in association with 20th-Century Fox. The series was not nearly as successful as HAMMER HOUSE OF HORROR. The shows all ran 74 minutes which was often two long to tell the stories presented here.
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