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The Prisoner: Hammer Into Anvil (1967)
Date(s) of Broadcast: 1 December 1967
Episode Running Times: 48 mins 15 sec
Format: colour
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: ITC / Everyman Films
Executive Producer: Patrick McGoohan
Producer: David Tomblin
Production Manager: Bernard Williams
SCRIPT
Script: Roger Woddis
Script Editor: George Markstein
DIRECTION
Director: Pat Jackson
Assistant Director: Gino Marotta
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Brendan J. Stafford
Camera Operator: Jack Lowin
2nd Unit Cameraman: Robert Monks
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Lee Doig
MUSIC
Theme: Ron Grainer
Musical Director: Albert Elms
Music Editor: Eric Mival
SOUND
Sound Recordist: John Bramall
Sound Editor: Ken Rolls
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Eddie Knight
Hair: Pat McDermot
Wardrobe: Masada Wilmot
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Jack Shampan
Set Dresser: Kenneth Bridgeman
MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Josie Fulford
LOCATIONS
Locations: Hotel Portmeirion, Penrhyndeudraeth, North Wales
Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Borehamwood, England
CASTING
Casting Director: Rose Tobias-Shaw
CAST
Patrick McGoohan (The Prisoner)
Patrick Cargill (Number 2)
Basil Hoskins (Number 14)
Victor Maddern (bandmaster)
Norman Scace (psychiatrist)
Derek Aylward (new supervisor)
Hilary Dwyer (Number 73)
Arthur Gross
(control room operator)
Peter Swanwick (supervisor)
Victor Woolf (shop assistant)
Michael Segal (technician)
Margo Andrew (girl)
Susan Sheers (code expert)
Jackie Cooper, Fred Haggerty, Eddie Powell, George Leach (guardians)
PLOT SUMMARY
No.73 is driven to suicide by No.2 and No.6 determines to make him
pay. He starts to behave very mysteriously, sending cryptic messages
by carrier pigeon and typing the words to a children's song on a morse
code machine. His behaviour convinces and increasingly paranoid No.2
that No.6 is a plant sent by the Village's mysterious authorities to
check on him.
KEYWORDS
carrier pigeons, islands, morse code, prisoners, prisons,
psychological warfare, surrealism
Last Updated:
1 January, 2009
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