UK, 1964
79m
35mm film, black and white
mono (RCA Sound Recording), English
Reviewed at The EOFFTV Review
A British horror film directed by Don Sharp.
Plot Summary
Morgan Whitlock is the head of the Whitlock clan whose ancestor Vanessa was buried alive by the family’s rivals, the Laniers, in the 17th century when she was suspected of being a witch. The Whitlocks and the Laniers have been engaged in a bitter feud for centuries but Amy Whitlock and Todd Lanier have fallen in love and want to marry.
Credits
Crew
Directed by: Don Sharp
© MCMLXIV [1964] by Lippert Films Ltd
Produced by: Robert Lippert, Jack Parsons
Production Manager: Clifton Brandon
Written by: Harry Spalding
Assistant Director: Frank Nesbitt
Continuity: Rene Glynne [real name: Renée Glynne]
Director of Photography: Arthur Lavis
Camera Operator: Len Harris
Editor: Robert Winter
Assistant Editor: Clive Smith
Music Composed by: Carlo Martelli
Conducted by: Philip Martell
Sound Recordist: Buster Ambler
Sound Editor: Spencer Reeve
Wardrobe: Jean Fairlie
Make-up: Harold Fletcher
Hairdresser: Joyce James
Art Director: George Provis
Production Secretary: Barbara Allen
Made at: Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, England
Cast
Lon Chaney (Morgan Whitlock)
Jack Hedley (Bill Lanier)
Jill Dixon (Tracy Lanier)
Marie Ney (Malvina Lanier)
Viola Keats (Helen Lanier)
Yvette Rees (Vanessa Whitlock)
David Weston (Todd Lanier)
Diane Clare (Amy Whitlock)
Barry Linehan (Myles Forrester)
Victor Brooks (Inspector Baldwin)
Marianne Stone (Forrester’s secretary)
John Dunbar (doctor)
Hilda Fennemore (nurse)
References
Periodicals
- Castle of Frankenstein no.6 p.56
- TV Times 11-17 September 1982 – credits, synopsis
Books
- British Gothic Cinema by Barry Forshaw p.88
- The Charm of Evil: The Life and Films of Terence Fisher by Wheeler Winston Dixon p.366
- English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema by Jonathan Rigby pp.130-31, 131, 133, 156, 186
- A Green and Pagan Land: Myth, Magic and Landscape in British Film and Television by David Huckvale pp.1, 164
- Horrorshows: The A-Z of Horror in Film, TV, Radio and Theatre by Gene Wright p.166-167 – credits, review
- Reference Guide to Fantastic Films by Walt Lee p.544 – credits
- Uneasy Dreams: The Golden Age of British Horror Films, 1956-1976 by Gary A. Smith pp.238
- Unsung Horrors by Eric McNaughton & Darrell Buxton (eds) pp.366-367 – illustrated review (by S.R. Shutt)
