UK, 1972
110m
35mm film, Eastmancolor, 1.85:1
mono (Westrex Recording System), English
A British Fantasy film directed by Fred Burnley.
Plot Summary
Anna has fled to the Channel Island of Jersey, on the run from an abusive marriage. There, she meets the handsome and brooding Hugh with who she starts an affair and they move into the house that Hugh shares with his stuffy brother George before setting off for a break in Scotland where Hugh keels over on the beach and dies of a heart attack. Anna returns to Jersey but is so traumatised that the power of her love seems to revive Hugh. The religious George believes that Hugh is possessed by a demon, but Anna is determined to continue their affair even if it’s a relationship that can ultimately only end in tragedy.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Fred Burnley
©/LMG Film Distributors
©/In association with: Portland Film Corporation
Presented by: Tigon British Productions Ltd.
Executive Producer: Tony Tenser, Peter J. Thompson
Produced by: Jack Smith, Peter Fetterman
Production Manager: John Peverall
Production Accountant: Michael Brent
Location Manager: Jilda Smith
Production Secretary: Beryl Harvey
Assistant Director: Derek Whitehurst
Continuity: Penny Daniels
Screenplay by/Based on the novel by: Gordon Honeycombe
Additional Dialogue by: Rosemary Davies
Director of Photography: David Muir
Camera Operator: John Crawford
Focus Puller: Bob Smith
Supervising Electrician: Ted Hallows
Stillsman: Norman Gryspeerdt
Film Editor: Norman Wanstall
Assistant Editor: Richard Trevor
Art Director: Michael Bastow
Chargehand Propertyman: Wally Hocking
Standby Propertyman: Brian Lofthouse
Wardrobe Mistress: Rita Wakely
Make-up: John O’Gorman
Hairdresser: Pat McDermott
Processed at: Rank Laboratories
Music Composed and Conducted by: Nachum Heiman
Sound Recordist: Ron Barron
Recording System: Westrex Recording System
Dubbing Mixer: Maurice Askew
Sound Editor: Mike Le Mare
Completed at: EMI-MGM Studios
Cast
Susan Hampshire (Anna Robinson)
Frank Finlay (George Dabernon)
Michael Petrovich (Hugh Dabernon)
Michael Craze (Collie)
Jack Lambert (Dr Irving)
Betty Duncan (Mrs MacKay)
David Garth (Mr MacKay)
Tony Booth (Delamare)
Alternative Titles
El amor nunca muere – Argentina
Ni more ni pijesak – Croatia
Ni la mer ni le sable – France
Der Tote, der nicht sterben wollte – Germany
Nè mare nè sabbia – Italy
Ni el mar ni la arena – Spain
Inte ens döden – Sweden
Kumsaldaki Çığlık – Turkey
Beneath Sea and Sand – USA
The Exorcism of Hugh – USA
Ni more ni pijesak – Yugoslavia (Croatian)
Ni more ni pesak – Yugoslavia (Serbian)
Ni more…. ….ni pesak – Yugoslavia (Serbian advertising)
References
Periodicals
- Castle of Frankenstein no.23 p.54
- Cinefantastique vol.4 no.2 (Summer 1975) p.34
- Cinema TV Today no.9963 (15 January 1972) p.10 – credits
- Cinema TV Today no.10008 (25 November 1972) p.20
- Films and Filming vol.19 no.6 (March 1973) p.57
- The Hollywood Reporter vol.230 no.3 (6 February 1974) p.8
- Monthly Film Bulletin vol.39 no.467 (December 1972) p.255
- Sight and Sound vol.19 no.11 (November 2009) p.89 – DVD review (Reviews: DVDs: Neither the Sea Nor the Sand by Michael Atkinson)
- Variety 30 January 1974) pp.23
Books
- The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Horror by Phil Hardy (ed.) p.261
- Chopped Meat: British Horror of the 1970s by Eric McNaughton and Darrell Buxton (eds) pp.148-150 – illustrated review (by Ian Taylor)
- English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby p.218
- Film Review 1973-74 by F. Maurice Speed (ed) p.227
- Horror and Science Fiction Films II by Donald C. Willis p.274
- House of Psychotic Women by Kier-La Janisse pp.200, 353
- Horrorshows: The A-Z of Horror in Film, TV, Radio and Theatre by Gene Wright pp.232-233 – credits, review
- Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.330
- Uneasy Dreams: The Golden Age of British Horror Films, 1956-1976 by Gary A. Smith p.160
