When his brother disappears, Robert Manning pays a visit to the remote country house he was last heard from. While his host is outwardly welcoming, and his niece more demonstrably so, Manning detects a feeling of menace in the air with the legend of Lavinia Morley, Black Witch of Greymarsh, hanging over everything.
Production Details
A Tigon Production
89 Mins
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Hammer Connections
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Hidden | Death | Age | Hammer Productions |
Construction Manager | Maurice Smith | 2 | |||||
Continuity | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/renee-glynne/# | 42 | 3 Aug 1926 | 6 Apr 2022 | 95 | 43 | |
Directed | Vernon Sewell | 65 | 4 Jul 1903 | 21 Jun 2001 | 97 | 6 | |
Producer | Louis M. Heyward | 48 | 24 Jun 1920 | 26 Mar 2002 | 81 | 1 | |
Production Manager | Alex Carver-Hill | 30 | 17 Aug 1938 | 17.08.1938 | 86 | 1 | |
Screenplay | Louis M. Heyward | 48 | 24 Jun 1920 | 26 Mar 2002 | 81 | 1 | |
Sound Mixer | Kevin Sutton | 3 | |||||
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Hidden | Death | Age | Hammer Productions |
Acolyte | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/fred-wood/# | 47 | 26 Oct 1921 | 25 Jan 2003 | 81 | 19 | |
Elder | Michael Gough | 52 | 23 Nov 1916 | 17 Mar 2011 | 94 | 3 | |
Eve Morley | Virginia Wetherell | 25 | 9 May 1943 | 09.05.1943 | 81 | 2 | |
Girl At Party | Jeannette Wild | 3 | |||||
Morley | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/christopher-lee/# | 46 | 27 May 1922 | 7 Jun 2015 | 93 | 22 | |
Second Driver In Car Chase | Douglas Mitchell | 1 | |||||
Sergeant Tyson | Roger Avon | 54 | 23 Nov 1914 | 21 Dec 1998 | 84 | 3 | |
The Vicar | Rupert Davies | 52 | 22 May 1916 | 22 Nov 1976 | 60 | 1 | |
Woman With Whip | Nita Lorraine | 26 | 23 Jan 1942 | 23.01.1942 | 0 | 1 |
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Footnotes
Boris Karloff became sick with pneumonia while shooting this film in the freezing rain. It was his last British movie.
Christopher Lee regarded the film as one of the worst in his career.