A special sideshow torture exhibit has the power, according to showman Dr. Diabolo (Burgess Meredith), to warn people of evil in their futures. One by one, skeptical customers are shown the greed and violence they’re hiding behind their respectable façades.
Production Details
An Amicus Production
Produced at Shepperton Studios
93 Mins
Stills from film
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Hammer Connections
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Hidden | Death | Age | Hammer Productions |
Art Direction | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/don-mingaye/# | 38 | 1929 | 8 Nov 2017 | 88 | 43 | |
Art Direction | Scott Slimon | 52 | 8 Aug 1915 | 1980 | 64 | 1 | |
Camera Operator | David Harcourt | 52 | 27 Sep 1915 | 5 May 2013 | 97 | 4 | |
Composer: Additional Music | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/philip-martell/# | 60 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 105 | |
Conductor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/philip-martell/# | 60 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 105 | |
Director | Freddie Francis | 49 | 22 Dec 1917 | 17 Mar 2007 | 89 | 6 | |
Director Of Photography | Norman Warwick BSc | 47 | 14 Jul 1920 | 26 Aug 1994 | 74 | 5 | |
Focus Puller | Trevor Wrenn | 31 | May 1936 | 01.05.1936 | 88 | 2 | |
Make-up Artist | Jill Carpenter | 4 Mar 2015 | 3 | ||||
Music | James Bernard | 42 | 20 Sep 1925 | 12 Jul 2001 | 75 | 26 | |
Music | Don Banks | 44 | 25 Oct 1923 | 5 Sep 1980 | 56 | 9 | |
Producer | Max Rosenberg | 53 | 13 Sep 1914 | 14 Jun 2004 | 89 | 1 | |
Production Design | Bill Constable | 1 | |||||
Screenplay | Robert Bloch | 50 | 5 Apr 1917 | 23 Sep 1994 | 77 | 2 | |
Set Dresser | Andrew Low | 5 | |||||
Sound Recordist | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/jim-o'brady/# | 49 | 13 May 1907 | 1 Jan 1991 | 73 | 18 | |
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |
Atropos - Goddess Of Destiny | Clytie Jessop | 38 | 1929 | 9 Apr 2017 | 1 | ||
Constable | Roy Stevens | 33 | 12 Mar 1934 | 29 Mar 2006 | 72 | 3 | |
Constable | Michael Hawkins | 38 | 26 Nov 1928 | 26 Oct 2014 | 85 | 2 | |
Dorothy Endicott | Barbara Ewing | 28 | 14 Jan 1939 | 14.01.1939 | 85 | 2 | |
Dr. Heim | Bernard Kay | 39 | 23 Feb 1928 | 25 Dec 2014 | 86 | 1 | |
Dr. Silversmith | Niall MacGinnis | 54 | 29 Mar 1913 | 6 Jan 1977 | 63 | 3 | |
Eddie Storm | John Phillips | 53 | 20 Jul 1914 | 11 May 1995 | 80 | 1 | |
Edgar Allan Poe | Hedger Wallace | 40 | 14 Oct 1927 | 30 Jan 2000 | 72 | 2 | |
Fairground Barker | Timothy Bateson | 41 | 3 Apr 1926 | 15 Sep 2009 | 83 | 4 | |
Fred | James Copeland | 49 | 1 May 1918 | 17 Apr 2002 | 83 | 1 | |
Gordon Roberts | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/michael-ripper/# | 54 | 27 Jan 1913 | 28 Jun 2000 | 87 | 36 | |
Lancelot Canning | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/peter-cushing/# | 54 | 26 May 1913 | 11 Aug 1994 | 81 | 25 | |
Man Visiting Edgar Allen Poe Collection | Lewis Alexander | 57 | 27 Aug 1910 | 23 Oct 2010 | 100 | 3 | |
Mike Charles | David Bauer | 50 | 6 Mar 1917 | 8 Feb 1973 | 55 | 1 | |
Nurse Parker | Catherine Finn | 52 | 7 Feb 1915 | 1 Mar 1980 | 65 | 2 | |
Ronald Wyatt | Jack Palance | 48 | 18 Feb 1919 | 10 Nov 2006 | 87 | 1 | |
Uncle Roger | Maurice Denham | 57 | 23 Dec 1909 | 24 Jul 2002 | 92 | 4 |
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Footnotes
“Columbia Pictures” financed this movie and insisted that two American actors be cast. Therefore, the initial casting of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee was changed to that of Jack Palance (Ronald Wyatt) and Burgess Meredith (Dr. Diabolo), with Peter Cushing being cast as Lancelot Canning.