Frank Rowlett is a down on his luck loser who can’t win at anything. When he can’t come up with money for a poker game, he sneaks into the back of a tattoo parlor, kills the owner and takes his money. Frank wins very big that night, but a small little dot appears on his chest. Day by day, it gets bigger and bigger and forms into a tattoo. The tattoo then starts to spread all over his body and he has to go into seclusion. Can Frank get the help he needs before time runs out?
Production Details
© 1984 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, All rights reserved
The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herin are fictitious and any similarity to the name, character or history of any person is entirely co-incidental.
Produced by Hammer Film Productions Limited
ITV London Transmission Date: 5th September 1984
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Cast & Crew
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Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
American Casting | William J Kenney | 45 | 29 May 1939 | 30 Dec 1992 | 53 | 13 | 13 | ||
American Casting | Daniel Travis | 14 | 14 | ||||||
Art Director | Carolyn Scott | 23 | 23 | ||||||
Assistant Art Director | Heather Armitage | 42 | 1942 | 01.01.1942 | 82 | 6 | 6 | ||
Assistant Director | Ken Baker | 23 | 23 | ||||||
Assistant to Producer | Karen Woods | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Assistant to Producer | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/laura-nightingale/# | 35 | 35 | ||||||
Camera Operator | Ken Withers | 56 | 21 Aug 1928 | 10 Mar 2020 | 91 | 14 | 14 | ||
Casting Director | Lesley de Pettit | 48 | 1936 | 2002 | 66 | 15 | 15 | ||
Continuity | Lorely Farley | 45 | Apr 1939 | 01.04.1939 | 85 | 23 | 23 | ||
Director | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/val-guest/# | 72 | 11 Dec 1911 | 10 May 2006 | 94 | 30 | 30 | ||
Director of Photography | Frank Watts BSc | 55 | 13 Jun 1929 | 5 Mar 1994 | 64 | 16 | 16 | ||
Dubbing Editor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/roy-baker/# | 57 | Jul 1927 | Feb 2011 | 83 | 29 | 1 | 30 | |
Dubbing Mixer | Ernie Marsch | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Editor | Bob Dearberg | 45 | 3 Feb 1939 | 8 May 2017 | 78 | 10 | 2 | 12 | |
Executive Producer | Brian Lawrence | 64 | 1920 | 2004 | 84 | 26 | 26 | ||
Executive Story Editor | Don Houghton | 54 | 2 Feb 1930 | 2 Jul 1991 | 61 | 20 | 20 | ||
Hairdresser | Daphne Volmer | 56 | 15 Aug 1928 | 11 Jan 2006 | 77 | 17 | 17 | ||
Make-up | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/eddie-knight/# | 59 | 14 Mar 1925 | 27 Aug 1996 | 71 | 31 | 31 | ||
Music Composer | David Bedford | 47 | 4 Aug 1937 | 1 Oct 2011 | 74 | 3 | 3 | ||
Musical Supervisor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/philip-martell/# | 76 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 104 | 1 | 105 | |
Producer | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/roy-skeggs/# | 50 | Apr 1934 | 29 Dec 2018 | 84 | 45 | 2 | 47 | |
Production Accountant | Sheala Daniell | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Production Accountant | Linda Nettleton | 35 | 1949 | 01.01.1949 | 75 | 13 | 13 | ||
Production Assistant | Sheila Collins | 13 | 13 | ||||||
Production Manager | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/ron-jackson/# | 49 | 1935 | 1993 | 58 | 34 | 1 | 35 | |
Publicity | Jean Garioch | 56 | 7 Jul 1928 | 21 Jan 1987 | 58 | 14 | 1 | 15 | |
Screenplay | Brian Clemens | 53 | 30 Jul 1931 | 10 Jan 2015 | 83 | 8 | 8 | ||
Sound Recordist | John Bramall | 61 | 18 Aug 1923 | 13 Jun 2000 | 76 | 23 | 23 | ||
Still Photographer | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/john-jay/# | 63 | 14 Nov 1920 | 29 Apr 2005 | 84 | 13 | 22 | 35 | |
Story Editor | John Peacock | 39 | 1945 | 1 Jun 2017 | 72 | 13 | 13 | ||
Tattooist | Barry Louvaine | 38 | 1946 | 2000 | 54 | 1 | 1 | ||
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
Billy | Nicholas Field | 36 | 5 Aug 1948 | 5.08.1948 | 76 | 1 | 1 | ||
Butch Girl | Marianne Sherman | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Butler | Hugh Morton | 81 | 28 Jun 1903 | 11 Jul 1984 | 81 | 4 | 4 | ||
Carla | Hilary Crane | 51 | 1933 | 13 Jul 2009 | 76 | 1 | 1 | ||
Chong Woy | Robert Lee | 71 | 1913 | 1 Dec 1986 | 73 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
Det. Inspector Grant | George Sewell | 60 | 31 Aug 1924 | 2 Apr 2007 | 82 | 2 | 2 | ||
Det. Sergeant Kirby | Peter Settelen | 32 | 23 Sep 1951 | 23.09.1951 | 73 | 1 | 1 | ||
Dr. Melford | Reginald Marsh | 57 | 17 Sep 1926 | 9 Feb 2001 | 74 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Father Dowd | James Ellis | 53 | 15 Mar 1931 | 8 Mar 2014 | 82 | 1 | 1 | ||
Frank Rowlett | Dirk Benedict | 39 | 1 Mar 1945 | 01.03.1945 | 79 | 1 | 1 | ||
Hara | Robert Oates | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Hatfield | William Derrick | 38 | 16 Jan 1946 | 16.01.1946 | 78 | 1 | 1 | ||
Lee | Burt Kwouk | 54 | 18 Jul 1930 | 24 May 2016 | 85 | 4 | 4 | ||
Ma Perkins | Maggie Rennie | 65 | 11 Feb 1919 | 5 Aug 2017 | 98 | 2 | 2 | ||
Matt Helston | John Paul | 63 | 20 Apr 1921 | 23 Feb 1995 | 73 | 3 | 3 | ||
Momma Rose | Alibe Parsons | 38 | 21 Dec 1945 | 21.12.1945 | 78 | 1 | 1 | ||
Pymar | Michael Cronin | 42 | 1942 | 01.01.1942 | 82 | 1 | 1 | ||
Registrar | Roger Milner | 59 | 2 Apr 1925 | 22 Feb 2014 | 88 | 1 | 1 | ||
Sara Helston | Jenny Seagrove | 27 | 4 Jul 1957 | 4.07.1957 | 67 | 1 | 1 | ||
Sexy Blonde | Dinah May | 29 | 9 Sep 1954 | 9.09.1954 | 70 | 1 | 1 | ||
Sick Man | Vernon Nesbeth | 7 Mar 2017 | 1 | 1 | |||||
Soo | Anthony Chinn | 54 | 1930 | 22 Oct 2000 | 70 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
Westcott | Tom Adams | 46 | 9 Mar 1938 | 11 Dec 2014 | 76 | 2 | 2 | ||
Wilson | Tony Sibbald | 48 | 28 Jun 1936 | 13 Dec 2011 | 75 | 1 | 1 |
Footnotes
George Sewell’s only other appearance in a Hammer production was in The Vengeance of She (1968).
Bert Kwok appeared for Hammer in three of their earlier films, Yesterday’s Enemy (1959), Passport to China (1960) and Terror of the Tongs (1961).