UK, 1942
112m
35mm film, black and white, 1.37:1
mono, English
A British fantasy film directed by Roy Boulting.
Plot Summary
David Charleston is determined to stay alone in a remote lighthouse after contacting the ghosts of the people who died in a shipwreck many years before, ghosts who are unaware that they are dead. He’s also bitter that no-one listened to his warnings about the rise of fascism and finds that he has much to learn from the dead.
Credits
* = uncredited
Crew
Directed by: Roy Boulting
© [not given on screen]
The Charter film production of…
Produced by: John Boulting
Production Management: E.J. Holding
Screen Play by: Jeffrey Dell and Bernard Miles; Wolfgang Wilhelm *, Anna Reiner *, Leslie Arliss *
[Based on the Play] By: Robert Ardrey
Assistant Director: Michael Johnson Jr|Michael Johnson Jnr
2nd Assistant Director: Rolf Popp *
3rd Assistant Director: Bill Herlihy *
Continuity: Phyllis Ross
Assistant Continuity: Regina Grant *
Director of Photography: Mutz Greenbaum
Camera Operator: Jack Hildyard
Focus Puller: Ray Sturgess *
Clapper Loaders: Sam Alexander *, Alan Hume *
Stills: Eugene H.E. Pizey *
Edited by: Roy Boulting
Associate Editor: Cliff Boote
Assistant Editors: Geoffrey Gabriel *, Eve Catchpole *, Kathleen Wells *
Music Composed and Conducted by: Hans May
Recordist: J.C. Cook
Sound Camera Operator: Wally Day *
Boom Operator: Percy Dayton *
Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording
Costumes by: Honoria Plesch
Special Effects: Tom Howard (I)|Tom Howard, Fred Ford
Art Direction: Duncan Sutherland
Assistant Art Directors: Elliot Scott *, R. Field-Smith *, Tony Noble *
Made at D&P Studios, Denham, England
Cast
Michael Redgrave (David Charleston)
Barbara Mullen (Ellen Kirby)
James Mason (Streeter)
Lilli Palmer (Melanie Kurtz)
Finlay Currie (Captain Joshua)
Frederick Valk (Dr Kurtz)
Sybille Binder (Anne-Marie)
Frederick Cooper (Ted Briggs)
Jean Shepherd (Mrs Briggs)
Barry Morse (Robert)
George Carney (Harry)
Miles Malleson (Chairman of Directors)
Brian Herbert (planning)
James Pirrie (new pilot)
A.E. Matthews (Mr Kirby)
Olive Sloane (woman director)
Tommy Duggan, Tony Quinn (office clerk)
Harold Antruther (British consul)
Alfred Sangster (director)
Alternative Titles
De döda skeppens fyr – Sweden
Links
See also
Thunder Rock (1946)
References
Books
- Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.493 – credits
Other sources
- BFI Southbank Guide August 2013 p.37 – illustrated listing
