Matakitas is Coming

Librarians are stalked by a psychotic strangler who continues his murder spree from beyond the grave.

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 28th April 1969

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Cast & Crew

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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
Composer	John Patrick Scott	38	1 Nov 1930	01.11.1930		94	3		3
Continuity	Lillian Lee						6		6
Director	Michael Lindsay-Hogg	28	5 May 1940	5.05.1940		84	1		1
Director of Photography	Arthur Lavis B.S.C.	44	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	Norman Lloyd	54	8 Nov 1914		11 May 2021	106	11		11
Executive Producer	Joan Harrison	61	26 Jun 1907		14 Aug 1994	87	15		15
Foucs Puller	Bob Jordan							29	29
Hair Stylist	Elsie Alder	63	2 Nov 1905		1979	73	8		8
Make-up	Ernest Taylor	56	31 Jan 1913		Apr 1987	74	8		8
Music Composer	Norman Kaye	40	5 Jan 1929		12 May 2001	72	1		1
Music Supervisor	https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/philip-martell/#	61	6 Oct 1907		11 Aug 1993	85	104	1	105
Music Title Theme	Harry Robertson	36	19 Nov 1932		17 Jan 1996	63	26		26
Post Production Consultant	Robert Mintz						17		17
Producer	https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/anthony-hinds/#	46	18 Sep 1922		30 Sep 2013	91	86	3	89
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		78		6	6
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	111	1	112
Unit Manager	Michael Brown						7		7
Wardrobe	Klara Kerpin	59	25 Oct 1909		1982	72	7		7
Written	Robert Heverley						1		1

Cast	Name	Age at Release	Birth		Death	Age	Hammer Credits	Uncredited	Total Hammer
June	Vera Miles	39	23 Aug 1929	23.08.1929		95	1		1
Ken	Dermot Walsh	44	10 Sep 1924		26 Jun 2002	77	1		1
Matakitas	Leon Lissek	30	19 Jan 1939		13 Jan 2022	82	2		2
Robert	John Junkin	39	29 Jan 1930		7 Mar 2006	76	2		2
Sylvia Ann	Gay Hamilton	25	29 Apr 1943	29.04.1943		81	2		2
Tracy	Lyn Pinkney						1		1

Footnotes

Fame came to Vera Miles when she attracted the attention of two master directors, Alfred Hitchcock and John Ford. Ford cast her in the classic western The Searchers (1956), and Hitchcock, who put her under personal contract and hailed her as his “new Grace Kelly”, paired her with the great Henry Fonda in The Wrong Man (1956). He also cast her in the potentially star-making role of Judy Barton in Vertigo (1958), but Miles withdrew from the film when she became pregnant. Hitchcock later gave Miles a supporting role in another masterpiece Psycho (1960).

Leon Lissek played the Sergeant of Bailiffs in Hammer’s 1971 film Countess Dracula.

Dermot Walsh was at one time married to Hammer star Hazel Court.

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