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Maniac (1963)
Country
of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1962
Running Times: 86 mins
Format: black and white 35mm
MegaScope
Ratio: 2.35:1
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Hammer Film Productions Limited
Producer: Jimmy Sangster
Production Manager: Bill Hill
SCRIPT
Script: Jimmy Sangster
DIRECTION
Director: Michael Carreras
Assistant Director: Ross MacKenzie
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Wilkie Cooper
Camera Operator: Harry Gillam
EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Supervising Editor: James Needs
Editor: Tom Simpson
MUSIC
Music: Stanley Black
SOUND
Sound Recordist: Cyril Swern
Sound Editor: Roy Baker
MAKE UP AND
COSTUMES
Make Up: Basil Newall
Hair: Pat McDermot
Wardrobe Supervisor: Molly Arbuthnot
DESIGN AND SET
CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Edward Carrick
MISCELLANEOUS
Assistant to Producer: Ian Lewis
Continuity: Kay Rawlings
LOCATIONS
Locations: MGM British Studios, Borehamwood, England, UK
CAST
Kerwin Mathews (Paul Farrell)
Nadia Gray (Eve Beynat)
Norman Bird (Salon)
Liliane Brousse (Annette Beynat)
Arnold Diamond (Janiello)
Donald Houston (Henri)
Justin Lord, Justine Lord (Grace)
George Pastell (Inpsector Etienne)
Leon Peers (Blanchard)
Jerold Wells (Giles)
PLOT SUMMARY
In the south of France,
a vengeful Georges Beynat murders the rapist of his daughter with a blowtorch. Four years later, American
artist Geoffrey Farrell is drawn into a web of intrigue
by Eve Beynat who, with her lover Henri, plans to frame
him for the murder of her now deranged husband.
AVAILABILITY
USA
Theatrical Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Video Distributor: RCA / Columbia
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
Finland
Rating: K-16
Sweden
Rating: 15
TIMELINE
1963
May
20: UK - theatrical release
July
19: Finland - theatrical release
October
30: USA - theatrical release
November
4: Sweden - theatrical release
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Il maniaco - Italian title
Murhaaja noidankehässä - Finnish title
LINKS
SEE ALSO
Fanatic (1965)
Hysteria (1965)
Nightmare (1963)
Taste of Fear (1961)
Paranoiac (1964)
Psycho (1960)
REFERENCES
BOOKS
The Hammer Story p.62
illustrated article (by Marcus Hearn and Alan Barnes) KEYWORDS
revenge, rape, paranoia, conspiracies, adultery, artists, blow torches
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