The Secret of the Loch (1934)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1934
Running Times: 78 mins
Length: 7117 ft / 2170 metres
Format: black and white
Ratio:
Sound: mono

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Company: Wyndham Productions
Producer: Ray Wyndham
Production Manager: Keith Horan

SCRIPT
Script: Charles Bennett, Billie Bristow

DIRECTION
Director: Milton Rosmer
Assistant Directors: Hector Elwes, B. Craham Soutten

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: James Wilson
Underwater Photography: Eric Cross
Camera: Cecil Cooney

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: David Lean

MUSIC
Music: Peter Mendoza

SOUND
Sound Recordist: Eric Williams
Sound Assistant: John W. Mitchell (uncredited)

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Decor and Technical Director: J. Elder Wills
Assistant Art Director: E.L. Fisher-Smith

MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Dilian G. Day

LOCATIONS
Studio: Ealing Studios, London, England, UK

CAST
Seymour Hicks (Professor Heggie)
Frederick Peisley (Jimmy Andrews)
Nancy O'Neal (Angela Heggie)
Gibson Gowland (Angus)
Ben Field (piermaster)
Eric Hales (diver)
Hubert Harben (Professor Fothergill)
Stafford Hilliard (Macdonald)
John Jamieson
Rosamund John (Maggie)
Elma Reid
Robb Wilton (reporter)

PLOT SUMMARY

A scientists tries to prove the existence of the Loch Ness Monster, helped by an eager young journalist.

AVAILABILITY

UK
Theatrical Distributors: ABFD

USA
Theatrical Distributors: Nostalgia Video
Video Distributors: Sinister Cinema; Nostalgia; Filmfax
DVD Distributors: Sinister Cinema

TIMELINE

1934
June
16: UK - press screening

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

Cinema Film Booking and Ready Reference Guide 3rd Quarter 1934 p.34 (UK)
credits, review (by A.F.)

Kinematograph Weekly no.1416 (7 June 1934) (UK)
review

Picturegoer vol.4 no.184 (1 December 1934) p.28 (UK)
review (by uncredited)

BOOKS

Creature Features Strikes Again by John Stanley p.340
credits, review

KEYWORDS

divers, loch ness monster, monsters, scientists, underwater

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008