Hammer House of Horror: The Silent Scream (1980)

Country of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 25th October 1980
Running Times: 50 mins
Format: colour
Sound:

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: A Jack Gill Presentation for Chips Productions Ltd / Cinema Arts International / Hammer Films for ITC Films International
Executive Producers: Brian Lawrence, David Reid
Producer: Roy Skeggs
Production Manager: Ron Jackson

SCRIPT
Script: Frances Essex
Story Editor: Anthony Read

DIRECTION
Director: Alan Gibson

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Frank Watts

MUSIC
Music: Leonard Salzedo
Music Supervisor: Philip Martell

SPECIAL EFFECTS
Special Effects: Ian Scoones

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Designer: Carolyn Scott

LOCATIONS
Locations: Hampden House, Great Hampden, England, UK; Broad Street, Chesham, England, UK; The Park Parade, Hazlemere, England, UK

CAST
Peter Cushing (Martin Blueck)
Brian Cox (Chuck)
Elaine Donnelly (Annie)
Anthony Carrick (Aldridge)
Robin Browne (police officer)
Terry Kinsella (Lionel)

PLOT SUMMARY

When Chuck Spillers is released from prison, he hopes to make a new life with his wife Annie, but find that money is in short supply. While inside, Spillers was visited by a pet shop owner, Martin Blueck, a Nazi concentration camp survivor, who now offers him a job. In the basement of his shop, Blueck keeps a menagerie of dangerous wild animals, kept in open cages controlled by electric fields. Blueck goes away on business and Spiller spots Blueck's safe - will he revert to his old criminal ways? And if he does, what sort of retribution would the apparently kindly Blueck be capable of?

UK
Television Distributor: ITV

UK
Rating: 15

1980
October
25: UK - television broadcast (on ITV)

KEYWORDS

criminals, improsnment, animals, human experiments, nazis