UK, 1948
51m
35mm film, black and white
English
A British fantasy film directed by Terence Fisher.
Plot Summary
A stubborn ghost refuses to leave the home that it’s haunting.
Credits
* = uncredited
Crew
Directed by: Terence Fisher
Highbury Productions
Produced By: John Croydon
Production Supervisor: Adrian Worker
Screenplay by: John Baines, W.E.C. Fairchild
Original Story by: John Baines
Assistant Director: Philip Horne
Director of Photography: Gordon Lang
Camera Operator: Robert Navarro
Film Editor: Gordon Pilkington
Music: Norman Fulton
Conducted by: John Hollingsworth
Played by: The Philharmonia Orchestra
Sound Supervisor: W. Anson Howell
Western Electric
Wardrobe: Violet Beaumont
Art Director: Don Russell
Cast
Mary Jerrold (Aunt Mabel)
Jack Train (voice of Uncle James)
Jane Barrett (Alice)
John Stone (Wilfred)
Ethel Coleridge (Emily)
Hedli Anderson (Millicent)
Bertram Shuttleworth (cabby)
Charles Rolfe (soldier)
Sam Kydd (soldier)
Dennis Woodford (chemist)
Press
1948
Monthly Film Bulletin vol.15 no.177 (September 1948) p.124
This is a slight but amusing trifle in which Jack Train (who remains unseen throughout the film) skilfully builds up the bibulous, irascible character of Uncle James by means of his famous “Colonel Chinstrap” voice. Strong support is rendered, notably by Mary Jerrold as Aunt Mabel, and the rest of the small cast. It is a pity that the otherwise commendable attention paid to detail in the costumes and settings of the period (the early part of this century) should be marred by dustbins in one shot which look too modem for the time. – from an uncredited review
References
Periodicals
- Kine Weekly no.2157 (2 September 1948) – review
- Monthly Film Bulletin vol.15 no.177 (September 1948) p.124 – credits, synopsis, review (uncredited)
- Today’s Cinema vol.71 no.5695 (1 September 1948) – review
Books
- The Charm of Evil: The Life and Films of Terence Fisher by Wheeler Winston Dixon pp.4, 11-22, 24, 37, 81, 86, 93, 141, 297; 475-476 – notes; credits
- English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby p.7
- Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.70 – credits
- Terence Fisher by Peter Hutchings pp.9; 33; 43-44; 84 – notes
