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Crescendo (1970)
Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1969
Running Times: 92m/95m
Length:
Format: 35mm
Colour Format: Technicolor
Ratio:
Sound:
DIRECTION
Director: Alan
Gibson
CREW
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Hammer Films
Producer: Michael Carreras
Production Manager: Hugh Harlow
SCRIPT
Script: Jimmy Sangster
Original Script: Alfred Shaughnessy
DIRECTION
Assistant Director: Jack Martin
Continuity: Lillian Lee
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Paul Beeson
Camera Operator: John
Winbolt
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Chris Barnes
MUSIC
Music: Malcolm Williamson
Music Performed By: The London Symphony Orchestra
Solo Piano: Clive Lythgoe
Solo Saxophone: Tubby Hayes
Conductor: Philip Martell
SOUND
Recording Supervisor: A.W.
Lumkin
Sound Mixer: Claude Hitchcock
Dubbing Mixer: Len Abbott
Sound Editor: Roy Hyde
Sound System: RCA Sound System
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Wardrobe: Jackie Breed
Make Up: Stella Morris
Hair: Ivy Emmerton
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Scott MacGregor
Assistant Art Director: Don Picton
Property Buyer: Ron Baker
Set Dresser: Freda Pearson
Construction Manager: Arthur Banks
LOCATIONS
Locations: A.B.P. Studios, Boreham Wood, England; France
CAST
Stefanie Powers (Susan)
James Olson (Georges/Jacques)
Margaretta Scott (Danielle)
Jane Lapotaire (Lillianne)
Joss Ackland (Carter)
Kirsten Betts (Catherine)
PLOT SUMMARY
Music student Susan Roberts travels to the South of France to research
her thesis on a little known dead composer. She meets his widow, Danielle,
and his strange, wheelchair-bound son, Georges. It soon becomes clear
though that things are not that they seem in the dysfunctional household...
AVAILABILITY
UK
Theatrical Distributor: Warner-Pathe Distributors Limited
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Warner-Seven Arts
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
USA
Rating: R; PG
After initially being released with an R rating, the film was edited
and re-rated PG to catch a wider audience.
TIMELINE
1969
July
14: UK - principal photography begins
1970
May
15 : UK - theatrical release (at the New Victoria, London, on a double
bill with Taste the
Blood of Dracula (1970))
June
7: UK - national theatrical release
1972
November
Day Unknown: USA - theatrical release
POSTER TAGS
The night the loving ended and the killing began!
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Concierto inacabado - Spanish title
Crescendo... con terrore - Italian title
Crescendo - Die Handschrift des Satans - German title
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Filmfacts vol.15 no.21 (1972) pp.527-528
(USA)
credits, reprinted review
Films and Filming vol.16 no.11 (August
1970) pp.47-48 (UK)
credits, review
Hollywood Reporter vol.207 no.28 (29
August 1969) p.7 (USA)
credits
The House That Hammer Built no.7 (February
1998) pp.364-367 (UK)
illustrated credits, synopsis, review
Kine Weekly no.3266 (16 May 1970) p.10
(UK)
review
Monthly Film Bulletin vol.37 no.437 (June
1970) p.127
credits, synopsis, review
Today's Cinema no.9697 (14 July 1969)
p.6 (UK)
credits
Today's Cinema no.9806 (22 May 1970)
p.10 (UK)
review
Variety 1 November 1972 p.20 (USA)
credits, review
BOOKS
Hoffman's Guide to SF, Horror and Fantasy Movies
1991 - 1992 p.82
credits, review
The Hammer Story pp.64, 178
illustrated review (by Marcus Hearn and Alan Barnes), credits
Reference Guide to Fantastic Films p.79
credits
KEYWORDS
disabilities, drugs, france, paranoia, students
Last Updated:
19 December, 2008
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