Young Simon Helder is a student of the works of Frankenstein. His experiments in the creation of life are discovered by the police and he is arrested, charged with witchcraft, found guilty but insane and committed to a lunatic asylum. There, he immediately recognises the medical director as Frankenstein, who is working there under an assumed name. At first, Frankenstein takes Simon on to help tend the other inmates, but it is not long before the two men are working together to create another human being…..
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Production Details
A Hammer production presented by Joseph E. Levine for Avco Embassy
Copyright MCMLXXIII Hammer Film Productions Limited – All rights reserved
MPAA Approved Certificate No. 23441
The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herein are fictitious and any similarity to the name, character, or history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional
RCA Sound Recording
Made at EMI/MGM EIstree Studios, Boreham Wood, Hertfordshire, England
Processed at Studio Film Laboratories 99 mins
Filming Began: 18th September 1972
UK Release: 12th Mayl 1974
Studio:
EMI-MGM Elstree Studios, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire
Location:
Highgate Cemetery, Swain’s Lane, Highgate, London – Graveyard opening scenes
Stills from film
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Cast & Crew
Red = Uncredited
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Hidden | Death | Age | Hammer Credited | Hammer Uncredited | Total Hammer |
Art Director | Scott MacGregor | 59 | 22 Oct 1914 | 1 Jan 1971 | 56 | 14 | 1 | 15 | |
Assistant Art Director | Don Picton | 58 | 22 Feb 1916 | 1 Nov 1981 | 65 | 15 | 2 | 17 | |
Assistant Director | Derek Whitehurst | 45 | 2 Oct 1928 | 6 Dec 2005 | 77 | 16 | 16 | ||
Camera Operator | Chic (Rodney) Anstiss | 43 | 1 Feb 1931 | 30 Jun 2011 | 80 | 12 | 12 | ||
Casting Director | James Liggat | 54 | 1 Jan 1920 | 28 Sep 1981 | 61 | 29 | 2 | 31 | |
Clapper Loader | Cedric James | 28 | 01 Jan 1946 | 01.01.1946 | 78 | 1 | 1 | ||
Construction Manager | Arthur Banks | 18 | 29 | 47 | |||||
Continuity | Kay Rawlings | 56 | 1 Jan 1918 | 1 Jul 1981 | 63 | 3 | 3 | ||
Director | Terence Fisher | 70 | 23 Feb 1904 | 18 Jun 1980 | 76 | 31 | 31 | ||
Director of Photography | Brian Probyn BSc | 53 | 30 Nov 1920 | 25 Nov 1982 | 61 | 6 | 6 | ||
Dubbing Mixer | Maurice Askew | 58 | 12 May 1916 | 11 Dec 1986 | 70 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
Editor | James Needs | 54 | 17 Oct 1919 | 4 Feb 2003 | 83 | 110 | 1 | 111 | |
Focus Puller | Malcolm Vinson | 35 | 01 Jan 1939 | 01.01.1939 | 85 | 2 | 2 | ||
Foley Editor | William Parnell | 28 | 01 Jan 1946 | 01.01.1946 | 78 | 3 | 3 | ||
Hairdresser | Maud Onslow | 4 | 4 | ||||||
Make-up | Eddie Knight | 49 | 14 Mar 1925 | 27 Aug 1996 | 71 | 31 | 31 | ||
Music Composer | James Bernard | 48 | 20 Sep 1925 | 12 Jul 2001 | 75 | 24 | 1 | 25 | |
Musical Supervisor | Philip Martell | 66 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 104 | 1 | 105 | |
Musician: Violins | Hugh Bean | 44 | 22 Sep 1929 | 26 Dec 2003 | 74 | 1 | 1 | ||
Producer | Roy Skeggs | 40 | 1 Apr 1934 | 29 Dec 2018 | 84 | 45 | 1 | 46 | |
Production Manager | Christopher Neame | 31 | 24 Dec 1942 | 12 Jun 2011 | 68 | 15 | 9 | 24 | |
Re-Recording Mixer | Lionel Strutt | 37 | 22 Jun 1936 | 6 Dec 2021 | 85 | 1 | 1 | ||
Screenplay | Anthony Hinds | 51 | 18 Sep 1922 | 30 Sep 2013 | 91 | 84 | 1 | 85 | |
Second Assistant Director | Christopher Carreras | 24 | 01 Jan 1950 | 01.01.1950 | 74 | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
Sound Editor | Roy Hyde | 54 | 15 Feb 1920 | 28 Jun 1985 | 65 | 30 | 1 | 31 | |
Sound Recordist | Les Hammond | 65 | 6 Jun 1908 | 8 | 8 | ||||
Special Effects | Les Bowie | 60 | 10 Nov 1913 | 27 Jan 1979 | 65 | 32 | 11 | 43 | |
Third Assistant Director | Roy Stevens | 40 | 12 Mar 1934 | 29 Mar 2006 | 72 | 3 | 3 | ||
Wardrobe Supervisor | Dulcie Midwinter | 64 | 7 Feb 1910 | 1 Oct 1997 | 87 | 4 | 4 | ||
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Hidden | Death | Age | Hammer Credited | Hammer Uncredited | Total Hammer |
Aggressive | Gordon Richardson | 62 | 12 Aug 1911 | 1 Dec 1994 | 83 | 1 | 1 | ||
Asylum Director | John Stratton | 48 | 7 Nov 1925 | 25 Oct 1991 | 65 | 1 | 1 | ||
Bodysnatcher | Patrick Troughton | 54 | 25 Mar 1920 | 28 Mar 1987 | 67 | 5 | 5 | ||
Brassy Girl | Andrea Lawrence | 37 | 20 Jun 1936 | 20.06.1936 | 88 | 5 | 5 | ||
Chatter | Janet Hargreaves | 36 | 31 May 1937 | 4 Aug 2018 | 81 | 1 | 1 | ||
Coach Driver | Peter Madden | 69 | 9 Aug 1904 | 24 Feb 1976 | 71 | 6 | 6 | ||
Court Clerk | Roy Lansford | 46 | 25 Feb 1928 | 6 Feb 2009 | 80 | 4 | 4 | ||
Death Wish | Nicholas Smith | 40 | 5 Mar 1934 | 6 Dec 2015 | 81 | 1 | 1 | ||
Dr Simon Helder | Shane Briant | 27 | 17 Aug 1946 | 27 May 2021 | 74 | 4 | 4 | ||
Ernst | Philip Voss | 37 | 20 Aug 1936 | 13 Nov 2020 | 84 | 1 | 1 | ||
Frankenstein | Peter Cushing | 60 | 26 May 1913 | 11 Aug 1994 | 81 | 24 | 1 | 25 | |
Gerda | Sheila D’Union | 28 | 01 Jan 1946 | 01.01.1946 | 78 | 1 | 1 | ||
Hans | Christopher Cunningham | 3 | 3 | ||||||
Inmate | Beatrice Greeke | 83 | 29 Dec 1890 | 3 Nov 1977 | 86 | 1 | 1 | ||
Inmate | Hugh Cecil | 60 | 16 May 1913 | 11 Feb 2004 | 90 | 1 | 1 | ||
Inmate | Lianne Gilmore | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Inmate | Peter Macpherson | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Inmate | Ron Eagleton | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Inmate | Toni Harris | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Judge | Clifford Mollison | 77 | 30 Mar 1897 | 4 Jun 1986 | 89 | 3 | 3 | ||
Landlord | Jerold Wells | 65 | 8 Aug 1908 | 19 Jul 1999 | 90 | 4 | 4 | ||
Letch | Victor Woolf | 63 | 1 Jan 1911 | 1 Jan 1975 | 64 | 1 | 1 | ||
Mouse | Winifred Sabine | 73 | 25 Jun 1900 | 1 Jan 1984 | 83 | 1 | 1 | ||
Muller | Sydney Bromley | 64 | 24 Jul 1909 | 14 Aug 1987 | 78 | 5 | 5 | ||
Old Hag | Lucy Griffiths | 55 | 24 Apr 1919 | 29 Sep 1982 | 63 | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
Police Sergeant | Norman Mitchell | 55 | 27 Aug 1918 | 19 Mar 2001 | 82 | 7 | 7 | ||
Priest | George Holdcroft | 5 | 5 | ||||||
Professor Durendel | Charles Lloyd-Pack | 71 | 10 Oct 1902 | 22 Dec 1983 | 81 | 8 | 8 | ||
Smiler | Norman Atkyns | 65 | 13 Dec 1908 | 7 Aug 1980 | 71 | 1 | 1 | ||
Tarmut | Bernard Lee | 66 | 10 Jan 1908 | 16 Jan 1981 | 73 | 2 | 2 | ||
The Angel | Madeline Smith | 24 | 2 Aug 1949 | 2.08.1949 | 75 | 3 | 3 | ||
The Creature | David Prowse | 38 | 1 Jul 1935 | 28 Nov 2020 | 85 | 3 | 3 | ||
Transvest | Michael Ward | 65 | 9 Apr 1909 | 8 Nov 1997 | 88 | 5 | 5 | ||
Twitch | Mischa de la Motte | 69 | 21 Jul 1904 | 18 Dec 1990 | 86 | 1 | 1 | ||
Wild One | Elsie Wagstaff | 74 | 1 Jul 1899 | 16 Jul 1985 | 86 | 2 | 2 |
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Footnotes
Terence Fisher had be coaxed out of retirement to direct this, Hammer’s last Frankenstein opus and his own last stint as director. Afterwards, he retired for good and died in 1980.
The screenplay for this film was the last contribution made to Hammer by Anthony Hinds, under his pen-name John Elder.
Actor Bernard Lee played 007’s boss ‘M’ in all of the James Bond films up to and including Moonraker (1979).
Nicholas Smith, uncredited here, played Mr Rumbold in the BBC TV sitcom Are You Being Served.