The Killing Bottle

An aspiring composer is unaware that his unscrupulous manager plans to take control of his estate.

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Hammer Film Productions
Copyright © MCMLXVIII
Filmed at Intertel Studios by Addavision
Distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox Television
William Self – In charge

UK Transmission date 9th July 1969

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Cast & Crew


Crew	Name	Age at Release	Birth	Hidden	Death	Age	Hammer Credits	Uncredited	Total Hammer
Art Director	Roy Stannard	38	1931		Mar 2008	77	10		10
Assistant Art Director	Graham Parker	38	1931		7 Oct 1992	61	8		8
Assistant Director	Derek Whitehurst	40	2 Oct 1928		6 Dec 2005	77	16		16
Based upon a story by	L.P. Hartley	73	30 Dec 1895		13 Dec 1972	76	1		1
Casting	Lesley de Pettit	33	1936		2002	66	15		15
Continuity	Estelle Stewart						8		8
Director	John Gibson	43	15 Nov 1925				1		1
Director of Photography	Kenneth Talbot BSc	49	17 Jan 1920		May 1993	73	9		9
Editor	Inman Hunter	54	25 Aug 1914		Jul 1986	71	5		5
Executive Consultant	Jack Fleischmann						17		17
Executive Producer	Joan Harrison	62	26 Jun 1907		14 Aug 1994	87	15		15
Executive Producer	Norman Lloyd	54	8 Nov 1914		11 May 2021	106	11		11
Focus Puller	Bob Jordan							29	29
Hair Stylist	Mibs Parker						8		8
Main Title Theme	Harry Robertson	36	19 Nov 1932		17 Jan 1996	63	26		26
Make-up	George Partleton	60	21 Jan 1909		17 Oct 1992	83	6		6
Music Composer	Bernard Ebbinghouse	42	18 Mar 1927		24 Feb 2012	84	2		2
Music Supervisor	Philip Martell	61	6 Oct 1907		11 Aug 1993	85	104	1	105
Post Production Consultant	Robert Mintz						17		17
Producer	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
Sound Editor	John Beaton	40	1929		14 Jan 2005	76	2	1	3
Sound Editor	Roy Baker	42	Jul 1927		Feb 2011	83	29	1	30
Sound Recordist	Stan Smart						8		8
Story Editor	John Gould	33	1936		21 Apr 1974	38	19		19
Stunt Double	Chris Webb						1		1
Supervising Editor	James Needs	49	17 Oct 1919		4 Feb 2003	83	111	1	112
Teleplay	Julian Bond	38	8 Dec 1930		14 Jan 2012	81	1		1
Unit Manager	Christopher Neame	26	24 Dec 1942		12 Jun 2011	68	15	9	24
Wardrobe	Mary Gibson						13		13

Cast	Name	Age at Release	Birth		Death	Age	Hammer Credits	Uncredited	Total Hammer
Hodgson	John Rudling	61	31 Aug 1907	9.05.1947	18 Dec 1983	77	1		1
Jimmy	Barry Evans	26	18 Jun 1943		11 Feb 1997	53	1		1
Policeman	Eddie Byrne	58	31 Jan 1911		21 Aug 1981	70	2		2
Randolph	William Marlowe	38	25 Jul 1930		31 Jan 2003	72	1		1
Rollo	Roddy McDowell	40	17 Sep 1928		3 Oct 1998	70	1		1
Vera	Ingrid Brett	22	1947	01.01.1947		77	2		2

Footnotes

Barry Evans was known for Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968), London Weekend Television sitcoms Doctor in the House (1969) and Mind Your Language (1977), plus The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1993). He died on February 11, 1997 in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England. The circumstances of his early death remain a mystery; he was found dead in his bungalow in Leicestershire, with bottles of whiskey and aspirins nearby. A youth was charged with his murder, but acquitted on lack of evidence. A local coroner later recorded an open verdict.

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