The Curse of the Wraydons (1946)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1946
Running Times: 94 mins
Length: 8450 ft
Format: black and white     35mm
Ratio: 1.37:1
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Ambassador Film Productions
Presenters: Gilbert Church & J.C. Jones
Production Manager: John Rayner

SCRIPT
Screen Play: Owen George
An adaptation from the famous play "Spring-Heeled Jack" or The Terror of London

DIRECTION
Directed by: Victor M. Gover

PHOTOGRAPHY
Photography: S.D. Onions
Camera: W. Noakes

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Edited by: Victor M. Gover
Cutter: John F. House

MUSIC
Music: De Wolfe

SOUND
Sound: K. Wiles
Recorded on Leevers Rich Sound System

COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make-up: H. Wright, Peggy Carlyle

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Direction: Victor Hembrow

OTHER CREW
Continuity: Doris Martin

LOCATIONS
Studio: Made at Bushey Film Studios

CAST
Bruce Seton (Jack Wraydon)
Henry Caine (George Wraydon)
Pearl Cameron (Rose Wraydon)
Andrew Laurence (George Heeningham)
Alan Lawrance (Squire Sedgefield)
Lorraine Clewes (Helen Sedgefield)
Ben Williams (John Rickers)
Gabriel Toyne (Lieut Payne)
John E. Coyle (Dennis)
Daphne Arthur (Alice Maitland)
Barry O'Neill
Herbert Appleby
Lionel Gadsen
Joseph Cunningham
Patricia Grant
Tod Slaughter (The Chief, Philip Wraydon)

Canada
Theatrical Distributor: Ambassador Film Distributors

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Hoffberg Productions Inc
Video Distributor: Sinister Cinema

Strangler's Morgue – US title

1953
July
1: USA - television broadcast (on WABD)

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

Kinematograph Weekly (18 September 1946) (UK)
note

Kinematograph Weekly no.2070 (19 December 1946) (UK)
review

Monthly Film Bulletin vol.13 no.153 (September 1946) p.122 (UK)
synopsis, credits

Today's Cinema vol.67 no.5394 (11 September 1946) (UK)
review

OTHER SOURCES

screen
credits

curses, insanity, play into film, serial killers

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008