Deadly Advice (1993)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1993
Running Times: 91 mins
Length: 8,161 ft / 2,625 metres
Format: Eastmancolor 35mm
Ratio:
Sound: Dolby Stereo

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Zenith
Producer: Nigel Stafford-Clark
Associate Producer: Charles Salmon
Production Coordinator: Janine Lodge

SCRIPT
Script: Glenn Chandler

DIRECTION
Director: Mandie Fletcher
Assistant Directors: Melanie Dicks, Robert Fabbri, William Booker

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Richard Greatrex
Camera Operator: Jim Alloway

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: John Jarvis
Post Production Coordinator: Harriet Fenner

MUSIC
Music: Richard Harvey
Music Consultants: David Minns, Margaret Wood
Songs: Graham Gouldman (For Your Love); Mike Hawker, Ivor Raymonde (I Only Want To Be With You); Tony Macauley, John Macleod (Let the Heartaches Begin); Hal Lindes (Bunny's Strip)
Songs Performed By: The Yardbirds (For Your Love); Dusty Springfield (I Only Want To Be With You); Long John Baldry (Let the Heartaches Begin); Hal Lindes, Phil Todd, The Optical Orchestra (Bunny's Strip)
Music Engineer: Austin Ince

SOUND
Sound Recordist: Mark Holding
Re-Recordist: Hugh Strain
Sound Editors: Rick Dunford
Dialogue Editor: Mike Crouch

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Chief: Aileen Seaton
Make Up: Robert McCann, Sian Grigg
Costume Designer: Emma Porteus
Wardrobe Supervisor: Cynthea Dowling

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects Chiefs: Dave Beavis, Arthur Beavis, Ken Lailey
Titles: Peerless Camera Company
Opticals: Peerless Camera Company; General Screen Enterprises

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Christopher Hobbs
Art Director: Michael Buchanan
Set Dresser: Neesh Ruben
Main Title Designers: Plume Partners
Title Designer: Chris Allies

MISCELLANEOUS
Choreographer: Nicky Hinkley

LOCATIONS
Locations: Hay-on-Wye, England, UK
Location Managers: Robert Jordan, Jonathan Wicks

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Tracey Eddon

CAST
Jane Horrocks (Jodie Greenwood)
Brenda Fricker (Iris Greenwood)
Imelda Staunton (Beth Greenwood)
Jonathan Pryce (Dr Ted Philips)
Edward Woodward (Major Herbert Armstrong)
Billie Whitelaw (Kate Webster)
Hywel Bennett (Dr Crippen)
Jonathan Hyde (George Joseph Smith)
John Mills (Jack the Ripper)
Ian Abbey (Bunny)
Eleanor Bron (Judge)
Roger Frost (Reverend Horace Cotton)
Gareth Gwyn-Jones (Mr Smethurst)
Richard Moore (Constable Dickman)
Alice Burrows (Joyce Cream)
Sarah Blackburn (Veronica)
Alan Fordham (compere)
Dillie Keane (Mary)
Benedick Bates (Michael)
Elinor Blakeley (young Josie)
Robert Hickson (Josie's dad)
Andrew Watson (farmer)
Sue Jones-Davies (waitress)
Graig Edwards (young constable)

Jodie lives with her domineering mother and her equally hen-pecked sister Beth. Jodie has fallen for an older doctor, but her mother disapproves and does her best to stifle any relationship while Beth takes up with a stripper she met at a hen party. Then Jodie starts to see Major Herbert Armstrong, a notorious killer who was executed for murdering his wife. Armstrong and a host of other famous killers, including Dr Crippen and Jack the Ripper are turning up to encourage Jodie to murder her mother.

Spain
Theatrical Distributor: Civite SA

UK
Theatrical Distributor: Mayfair Entertainment International
Video Distributor: Curzon

USA
Theatrical Distributor: Rosebud Communications Releasing

Spain
Rating: 13

UK
Rating: 15

USA
Rating: R (for some sexuality, violence and language)

1994
Catalonian International Film Festival, Sitges, Spain
Best Actress (Jane Horrocks) - winner

1994
April
29: UK - theatrical release

1995
June
15: Spain - theatrical release

October
22: UK - television broadcast (on Sky Movies)

1998
April
22: UK - television broadcast (on Channel 5)

2000
February
7: UK - television broadcast (on Channel 5)

Consejos mortales - Spanish title
Kuoleman konsultit - Finnish title

MAGAZINES

Empire no.59 (May 1994) p.32 (UK)
illustrated review

The European Film Review no.1 (Spring / Summer 1994) p.31 (UK)
illustrated credits, review

Screen International no.907 (14 May 1993) p.27 (UK)
credits

Screen International no.916 (16 July 1993) p.22 (UK)
illustrated production notes

Screen International no.951 (1 April 1994) p.25 (UK)
review

Sight and Sound Comedy Supplement March 1994 p.12 (UK)
illustrated article

Sight and Sound vol.4 no.5 (May 1994) pp.40-41 (UK)
credits, synopsis, review

Sight and Sound vol.4 no.9 (September 1994) p.58 (UK)
note

Sight and Sound vol.5 no.4 (April 1995) p.61 (UK)
note

Starburst no.188 (April 1994) p.35 (UK)
illustrated credits, review

Time Out 27 April - 4 May 1994 pp.18-19, 66
review

Variety 9 May 1994 p.90 (USA)
credits, review

serial killers; matricide; ghosts