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Fanatic (1965)
Country
of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1965
Running Times: 95 mins (Australia) 96
mins (UK) 97 mins (USA)
Format: Technicolor 35mm
Ratio:
Sound:
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Hammer Films
Producer: Anthony Hinds
Production Manager: George Fowler
SCRIPT
Script: Richard Matheson
Novel: Nightmare by Anne Blaisdell
DIRECTION
Director: Silvio Narizzano
Assistant Director: Claude Watson
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Arthur Ibbetson
Camera Operator: Paul Wilson
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Supervising Editor: James Needs
Editor: John Dunsford
MUSIC
Music: Wilfred Josephs
Musical Supervisor: Philip Martell
SOUND
Sound Recording: Ken Rawkins
Sound Editor: Roy Hyde
Sound System: RCA Sound Recording
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make Up: Roy Ashton, Richard Mills
Hair: Olga Angelinetta
Wardrobe Mistress: Mary Gibson
DESIGN AND SET
CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Peter Proud
MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Renée Glynne
LOCATIONS
Locations: Associated British Studios, Elstree, England,
UK
CAST
Tallulah Bankhead (Mrs Trefoile)
Stefanie Powers (Pat Carroll)
Peter Vaughan (Harry)
Maurice Kaufman (Alan Glendower)
Yootha Joyce (Anna)
Donald Sutherland (Joseph)
Gwendolyn Watts (Gloria)
Robert Dorning (Ormsby)
Philip Gilbert (Oscar)
Winifred Dennis (shopkeeper)
Diane King (woman shopper)
PLOT SUMMARY
Pat, newly engaged to
Alan, has to tell Mrs Trefoile, the religiously obsessed
mother of her dead lover Stephen, of her forthcoming
marriage. But Trefoile believes that Pat and Stephen were
married and, with the help of her sinister household,
keep Pat prisoner in her old house.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Theatrical Distributor: Columbia Pictures
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Video Distributors: Cinema Classics; RCA/Columbia
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Australia
Rating: M
Finland
Rating: banned in 1965
Sweden
Rating: 15
USA
Rating: unrated
TIMELINE
1965
March
21: UK - theatrical release
1966
May
31: Sweden - theatrical release
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Die, Die, My Darling! - US title
Dödens lilla oskuld - Swedish title
Das Düstere Haus - German title
Una notte per morire - Italian title
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Daily Cinema no.9039 (12
March 1965) p.4 (UK)
review
Dark Terrors no.9
(November 1994) pp.19-20 (UK)
illustrated article
Film Daily vol.126 no.82
(29 April 1965) p.6 (USA)
review
Hollywood Reporter vol.181
no.22 (20 July 1964) p.1 (USA)
note
Hollywood Reporter vol.185
no.19 (27 April 1965) p.3 (USA)
review
Kine Weekly no.2997 (11
March 1965) p.15 (UK)
review
Monthly Film Bulletin vol.32
no.375 (April 1965) p.51 (UK)
credits, synopsis, review
Motion Picture Herald vol.233
no.7 (31 March 1965) p.258 (USA)
review
Variety 28 April 1965
(USA)
credits, review
BOOKS
British National Film Catalogue vol.3
(1965) (UK)
credits, synopsis
The Hammer Story p.63
review KEYWORDS insanity; paranoia; imprisonment
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