A young man unlucky in love is attracted to a female mannequin that comes to life in his fantasies.
Production Details
Hammer Film Productions
Copyright © MCMLXVIII
Filmed at Intertel Studios by Addavision
Distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox Television
William Self – In charge
UK Transmission date 12th May 1969
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Cast & Crew
Red = Uncredited
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
Art Director | William Kellner | 68 | 30 Jul 1900 | May 1996 | 95 | 7 | 7 | ||
Assistant Art Director | George Lack | 51 | 1918 | Jul 2014 | 96 | 7 | 7 | ||
Assistant Director | Bluey Hill | 57 | 27 Nov 1911 | Apr 1986 | 74 | 5 | 5 | ||
Camera Operator | Lou Lavelly | 35 | 11 Mar 1934 | 26 May 1992 | 58 | 5 | 5 | ||
Casting | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/james-liggat/# | 49 | 1920 | 28 Sep 1981 | 61 | 29 | 2 | 31 | |
Continuity | Leonora Hail | 9 Oct 2008 | 3 | 3 | |||||
Director | Don Chaffey | 51 | 5 Aug 1917 | 13 Nov 1990 | 73 | 6 | 6 | ||
Director | Robert Stevens | 48 | 2 Dec 1920 | 7 Aug 1989 | 68 | 2 | 2 | ||
Director of Photography | Arthur Lavis B.S.C. | 45 | 14 Jun 1924 | 15 Jan 1999 | 74 | 6 | 6 | ||
Editor | Inman Hunter | 54 | 25 Aug 1914 | Jul 1986 | 71 | 5 | 5 | ||
Executive Consultant | Jack Fleischmann | 17 | 17 | ||||||
Executive Producer | Joan Harrison | 61 | 26 Jun 1907 | 14 Aug 1994 | 87 | 15 | 15 | ||
Focus Puller | Bob Jordan | 29 | 29 | ||||||
Hair Stylist | Elsie Alder | 63 | 2 Nov 1905 | 1979 | 73 | 8 | 8 | ||
Main Title Theme | Harry Robertson | 36 | 19 Nov 1932 | 17 Jan 1996 | 63 | 26 | 26 | ||
Make-up | Ernest Taylor | 56 | 31 Jan 1913 | Apr 1987 | 74 | 8 | 8 | ||
Music Composer | Harry Robertson | 36 | 19 Nov 1932 | 17 Jan 1996 | 63 | 26 | 26 | ||
Music Supervisor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/philip-martell/# | 61 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 104 | 1 | 105 | |
Post Production Consultant | Robert Mintz | 17 | 17 | ||||||
Producer | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/anthony-hinds/# | 46 | 18 Sep 1922 | 30 Sep 2013 | 91 | 87 | 3 | 90 | |
Production Manager | John Oldknow | 42 | 5 Mar 1927 | 10 Apr 1989 | 62 | 16 | 16 | ||
Second Assistant Director | Nicholas Granby | 23 | 19 Nov 1945 | 19.11.1945 | 79 | 6 | 6 | ||
Set Decoration | Tim Abady | 22 | 20 Nov 1946 | 20.11.1946 | 78 | 2 | 2 | ||
Short story Special Delivery | John Collier | 68 | 3 May 1901 | 6 Apr 1980 | 78 | 1 | 1 | ||
Sound Editor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/roy-baker/# | 41 | Jul 1927 | Feb 2011 | 83 | 29 | 1 | 30 | |
Sound Editor | Tony Pullen | 7 | 7 | ||||||
Sound Recordist | John Streeter | 44 | 1925 | 2012 | 87 | 8 | 8 | ||
Story Editor | John Gould | 33 | 1936 | 21 Apr 1974 | 38 | 19 | 19 | ||
Supervising Editor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/james-needs/# | 49 | 17 Oct 1919 | 4 Feb 2003 | 83 | 113 | 1 | 114 | |
Teleplay | Michael Ashe | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Teleplay | Paul Wheeler | 35 | 23 May 1934 | 23.05.1934 | 90 | 1 | 1 | ||
Unit Manager | Michael Brown | 7 | 7 | ||||||
Wardrobe | Klara Kerpin | 59 | 25 Oct 1909 | 1982 | 72 | 7 | 7 | ||
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
1st Youth | John Nightingale | 27 | 1942 | 1980 | 38 | 1 | 1 | ||
2nd Youth | Marcus Hammond | 31 | 1938 | 01.01.1938 | 86 | 2 | 2 | ||
Albert | Dennis Waterman | 21 | 24 Feb 1948 | 8 May 2022 | 74 | 3 | 3 | ||
Eve | Carol Lynley | 27 | 13 Feb 1942 | 3 Sep 2019 | 77 | 2 | 2 | ||
George | Errol John | 44 | 20 Dec 1924 | 10 Jul 1988 | 63 | 1 | 1 | ||
Girl in Cinema | Elna Pearl | 18 | 1951 | 01.01.1951 | 73 | 1 | 1 | ||
Jennifer | Angela Lovell | 24 | 1945 | 01.01.1945 | 79 | 1 | 1 | ||
Kim | Barry Fantoni | 29 | 28 Feb 1940 | 28.01.1940 | 84 | 1 | 1 | ||
Laverly-Smith | Nicholas Phipps | 55 | 23 Jun 1913 | 11 Apr 1980 | 66 | 2 | 2 | ||
Mr Miller | Peter Howell | 49 | 25 Oct 1919 | 20 Apr 2015 | 95 | 2 | 2 | ||
Mrs Kass | Hermione Baddeley | 62 | 13 Nov 1906 | 19 Aug 1986 | 79 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Night Watchman | Frank Forsyth | 63 | 19 Dec 1905 | 2 May 1984 | 78 | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
Royal | Michael Gough | 52 | 23 Nov 1916 | 17 Mar 2011 | 94 | 3 | 3 | ||
Second Detective | Roy Desmond | 2 | 2 | ||||||
The Detective | Barry Linehan | 43 | 23 Sep 1925 | 8 Jun 1996 | 70 | 3 | 3 |
Footnotes
Dennis Waterman’s first film for Hammer was The Pirates of Blood River (1962). He also played Simon in Scars of Dracula (1970).
Michael Gough played the butler Alfred in Warner Brothers “Batman” films.