In order to collect inheritance money, a slacker tries to induce a heart attack in his invalid grandmother by convincing her that she’s become the target of youth supremacists who want to enact a genocide on the elderly.
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 | Tony Curtis | 35 | 25 Jan 1937 | 8 Jan 2021 | 83 | 1 | |
Camera Operator | Michael Sarafian | 38 | 1934 | 01.01.1934 | 90 | 1 | |
Chief Make-up Artist | Tony Sforzini | 1 | |||||
Cinematography | Gerry Turpin | 47 | 1 Sep 1925 | 16 Sep 1997 | 72 | 1 | |
Continuity | Phyllis Townshend | 1 | |||||
Draughtsman | Thomas Goswell | 81 | 28 Mar 1891 | 1982 | 90 | 7 | |
Draughtsman | David Minty | 32 | 1940 | 2013 | 73 | 1 | |
Focus Puller | Eddie Collins | 26 | 13 Nov 1945 | 13.11.1945 | 78 | 3 | |
Producer | Max Rosenberg | 58 | 13 Sep 1914 | 14 Jun 2004 | 89 | 1 | |
Set Decoration | Helen Thomas | 1 | |||||
Still Photographer | John Brown | 38 | 1 Jul 1934 | 5 Nov 2017 | 83 | 4 | |
Stunt Performer | Peter Diamond | 43 | 10 Aug 1929 | 27 Mar 2004 | 74 | 29 | |
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |
Dickson | Peter Copley | 57 | 20 May 1915 | 7 Oct 2008 | 93 | 3 | |
Dr. Graham | Peter Jeffrey | 43 | 18 Apr 1929 | 25 Dec 1999 | 70 | 2 | |
Gran Alice Tallent | Mona Washbourne | 68 | 27 Nov 1903 | 15 Nov 1988 | 84 | 2 | |
Trouncer | George A. Cooper | 47 | 7 Mar 1925 | 16 Nov 2018 | 93 | 3 | |
Vicar | George Benson | 61 | 11 Jan 1911 | 17 Jun 1983 | 72 | 2 | |
Continuity | Lorna Selwyn | 61 | 1908 | 12 Sep 2002 | 94 | 5 | |
Bank Manager | Stuart Nichol | 61 | 10 Feb 1908 | 30 Aug 1991 | 83 | 2 | |
Clark | Paul Whitsun-Jones | 45 | 5 Apr 1923 | 14 Jan 1974 | 50 | 1 | |
Frisby | Terence Alexander | 46 | 11 Mar 1923 | 28 May 2009 | 86 | 2 | |
Harrington | Derek Francis | 45 | 7 Nov 1923 | 27 Mar 1984 | 60 | 3 | |
Porter | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/david-lodge/# | 47 | 19 Aug 1921 | 18 Oct 2003 | 82 | 10 |
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Footnotes
This film had the least number of Hammer connections in an Amicus production.
Financed by Amicus pictures in 1970 as “Romeo and Juliet ’71” in an attempt to capture the ever-growing grindhouse/exploitation market. The final product proved to be too nihilistic for Amicus executives, and they shelved the film for two years until it was picked up for distribution by 20th Century Fox.