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The Damned (1963)
Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1961
Running Times: 86m/87m/94m 27s (UK - theatrical)
Length:
Format: 35mm/Hammerscope
Colour Format: black and white
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: mono
DIRECTION
Director: Joseph Losey
CREW
PRODUCTION
Copyright: © MCMLXI [1961] Swallow Productions Ltd
Production Companies: Columbia Pictures Corporation presents a Hammer
Film production (opening credits) A Hammerscope production (closing
credits)
Executive Producer: Michael Carreras
Producer: Anthony Hinds
Associate Producer: Anthony Nelson Keys
Production Manager: Don Weeks
SCRIPT
Screenplay: Evan Jones
Based on the novel 'The Children of Light' by
H.L. Lawrence
DIRECTION
Assistant Director: John Peverall
Continuity: Pamela Davies
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Arthur Grant
Camera Operator: Anthony Heller
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Reginald Mills
MUSIC
Music Composer: James Bernard
Musical Supervisor: John Hollingsworth
SOUND
Sound Recordist: Jock May
Sound Editor: Malcolm Cooke
RCA Sound Recording
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Wardrobe Supervisor: Molly Arbuthnot
Make-up Artist: Roy Ashton
Hair Stylist: Frieda Steiger
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Bernard Robinson (uncredited)
Art Director: Don Mingaye (uncredited)
Sculpture: Frink (real name: Elisabeth Frink)
LOCATIONS
Produced at Bray Studios, England
Locations: Weymouth, England, UK
CASTING
Casting: Stuart Lyons
CAST
Macdonald Carey (Simon Wells)
Shirley Ann Field (Joan)
Viveca Lindfors (Freya Nielson)
Alexander Knox (Bernard)
Oliver Reed (King)
Walter Gotell (Major Holland)
Brian Oulton (Mr Dingle)
Kenneth Cope (Sid)
James Villiers (Captain Gregory)
Thomas Kempinski (Ted)
Barbara Everest (Miss Lamont)
Alan McClelland (Mr Stuart)
James Maxwell (Mr Talbot)
Rachel Clay (Victoria)
Caroline Sheldon (Elizabeth)
Rebecca Dignam (Anne)
Siobhan Taylor (Mary)
Nicholas Clay (Richard)
Kit Williams (Henry)
Christopher Witty (William)
David Palmer (George)
John Thompson (Charles)
UNCREDITED CAST
Fiona Duncan
Victor Gorf
Tommy Trinder
Neil Wilson
León García, David Gregory, Edward Harvey, Larry Martyn, Geremy Phillips,
Anthony Valentine (Teddy-boys)
PLOT SUMMARY
In Weymouth, American Simon Wells is attacked by a gang of local thugs
led by the brutal King, who resents Wells flirting with his sister Joanie.
When King and his gang later try to attack Wells again, he and Joanie
fall from a cliff and are rescued by a group of children who emerge
from a nearby research facility run by scientist Bernard. The children
are the radioactive subjects of experiments being run by Bernard, the
offspring of women exposed to high levels of radiation to produce children
capable of surviving a nuclear war.
AVAILABILITY
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Columbia Pictures
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Finland
Rating: K-16
Norway
Rating: 15
Sweden
Rating: 15
UK
Rating: X (1961 - uncut)
TIMELINE
1961
May
8: UK - principal photography begins
June
22: UK - principal photography ends
December
20: UK - rated X by the BBFC (for theatrical release)
1963
May
19: UK - theatrical release
1965
May
21: Finland - theatrical release
July
7: USA - theatrical release
1966
January
31: Sweden - theatrical release
POSTER TAGS
All of them doomed by the lurking, unseen evil.
Warning! Don't go alone, take a brave nerveless friend
with you!
Children of Ice And Darkness! They Are the Lurking Unseen
Evil You Dare Not Face Alone!
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Damnés, Les - French title
...de kallblodiga - Swedish title
Fabryka niesmiertelnych - Polish title
Fordřmte, De - Danish/Norwegian title
Hallucination - Italian title
Kataramenoi, Oi - Greek title
Kirotut - Finnish title
Sie sind verdammt - German title
These are the Damned - US title
REFERENCES
PERIODICALS
British National Film Catalogue vol.1
(1963) (UK)
credits, synopsis
Cahiers du Cinema no.161 / 162 (January
1965) p.145 (France)
review
CinemAction no.96 (2000) pp.62-72 (France)
illustrated article
Daily Cinema no.8738 (18 March 1963)
p.11 (UK)
review
Films and Filming vol.9 no.8 (May 1963)
p.24 (UK)
review
The House That Hammer Built no.3 (June
1997) pp.156-159 (UK)
illustrated credits, synopsis, review
Kine Weekly no.2894 (21 March 1963) p.23
(UK)
review
Monthly Film Bulletin vol.30 no.352 (May
1963) p.59
credits, synopsis, review
Movie no.1 (June 1962) p.10 (UK)
review
Movie no.9 (May 1963) p.31 (UK)
article
Sight and Sound vol.32 no.3 (Summer 1963)
p.143 (UK)
review
Variety 14 July 1965 (USA)
credits, review
BOOKS
The Hammer Story pp.66-67
illustrated production notes, review
KEYWORDS
bikers, caves,
children, helicopters,
human experiments,
mutations, radiation,
refugees
Last Updated:
17 May, 2009
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