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Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971)
Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1971
Running Times: 87m 39s (UK - video)/91m
Length: 8226 ft
Format: 35mm
Colour Format: colour
Ratio: 1.37:1
Sound: mono
DIRECTION
Directed by: Curtis Harrington
CREW
 PRODUCTION
Copyright: © American International Productions (England) Ltd.
MCMLXXI [1971]
Production Companies: James H. Nicholson & Samuel Z. Arkoff present
an American International/Hemdale production
Executive Producer: Louis M. Heyward
Produced by: Samuel Z. Arkoff & James H. Nicholson
Associate Producer: John Pellatt
Production Manager: Donald Toms
SCRIPT
Screenplay by: Robert Blees and James Sangster
Original Screen Story by: David Osborn
Additional Dialogue by: Gavin Lambert
DIRECTION
Assistant Director: Colin Brewer
Continuity: June Randall
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Desmond Dickinson
Camera Operator: Norman Jones
Color by Movielab
EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Tristam Cones
MUSIC
Music Composed & Conducted by: Kenneth V. Jones
SOUND
Sound Recordists: Ken Ritchie, Richard Langford
Sound Editor: Peter Lennard
COSTUMES AND MAKE UP
Wardrobe Supervisor: Bridget Sellers
Make Up: Eddie Knight, Sylvia Croft
Hairdressing: Pat McDermott, Joyce James
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: George Provis
OTHER CREW
Publicity: Dennison Thornton
LOCATIONS
Filmed at Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Middlesex, England
CASTING
Casting: Sally Nicholl
CAST
Shelley Winters (Rosie Forrest)
Mark Lester (Christopher)
Ralph Richardson (Mr Benton)
co-starring
Judy Cornwell (Clarine)
Michael Gothard (Albie)
Hugh Griffith as the pigman [Mr Harrison]
Lionel Jeffries
as [Inspector] Willoughby
and introducing
Chloe Franks as Katy
with
Rosalie Crutchley (Miss Henley)
Pat Heywood (Doctor
Mason)
Richard Beaumont (Peter)
Jacqueline Cowper (Angela)
Marianne Stone (Miss Wilcox)
Charlotte Sayce (Katharine)
PLOT SUMMARY
Rosie Forrest, an eccentric but kindly widow (who
keeps the mummified corpse of her daughter in her attic) regularly invites
ten young children from the local orphanage for a Christmas dinner.
Brother and sister Christopher and Katy gatecrash the party and Rosie
becomes obsessed with Katy who resembles her dead child. As their relationship
develops, Christopher's jealousy leads him to suspect that Rosie is
a witch and when he tries to lure Katy away from her, she reveals her
true colours...
AVAILABILITY
UK
Theatrical Distributor: MGM - EMI
USA
Theatrical Distributor: American International Pictures
Video Distributor: Vestron Video
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
UK
Rating: AA; 15
USA
Rating: PG
TIMELINE
1971
November
8: UK - rated AA by the BBFC (for theatrical release)
1986
February
17: UK - rated 15 by the BBFC (for video release)
POSTER TAGS
The hand that rocks the cradle has no flesh on it!
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Gingerbread House - shooting title
Who Slew Auntie Roo? - alternative title
REFERENCES
PERIODICALS
Psychotronic no.16 pp.44, 45-46 (USA)
review
Video Watchdog 14 pp.39-40, 51 (USA)
review
BOOKS
Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Horror (2nd edition)
p.245
credits, review
Ten Years of Terror p.129 (UK: FAB Press
(2001))
illustrated credits, review (by Nigel Burrell)
OTHER SOURCES
screen
credits
KEYWORDS
children, christmas, skeletons, madness, coffins,
orphanages, old dark houses, cannibalism
Last Updated:
19 February, 2010
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