Brenda Thompson is a naive, almost childlike, young Liverpudlian girl, who lives in a dream world in which she is a fantasy princess. Desperate to have a baby, she leaves her home in Liverpool and heads for the bright lights of London in search of a potential father. There, she meets an attractive young man, Peter, who seems to be everything she is hoping for. But all is not as it appears, for he is in reality a dangerous, psychopathic murderer!
Production Details
A Hammer production released through MGM-EMI Film Distributors Limited Copyright MCMLXXII Hammer Film Productions Limited – All rights reserved MPAA
Approved Certificate No. 23532
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 System
Made at Elstree Studios Hertfordshire, England
Technicolor 96 mins
Filming Began: 17th December 1971
UK Release: 19th July 1972
Studio:
Elstree Studios of Associated British Picture Corporation, Hertfordshire
Location:
South Bank Centre, South Bank, Lambeth, London
214 Earl’s Court Road, Kensington, London – Newsagents shop
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Footnotes
Rita Tushingham had made a name for herself in the sixties with films like A Taste of Honey (1961), The Knack…and how to get it (1965) and Smashing Time (1967).
James Bolam was well-known to TV audiences as one of the BBC’s The Likely Lads. His many other appearances include BBC TV’s When the Boat Comes in.
In 1971, Peter Collinson had directed the hysterical psychological thriller Fright, which was produced by Harry Fine and Michael Style, the men behind Hammer’s “Karnstein” vampire trilogy
.