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Hammer Films : the ultimate collection

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LCC: DVE 6241 (viewing copy) (Assigner: dlc) (Status: uba)

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  • Cast: The pirates of Blood River: Kerwin Mathews, Glenn Corbett, Christopher Lee, Peter Arne, Marla Landi, Oliver Reed, Andrew Keir.
  • Cast: The camp on Blood Island: Carl Mohner, Andre Morell, Edward Underdown, Walter Fitzgerald, Phil Brown, Barbara Shelley, Michael Goodliffe.
  • Cast: Die! Die! My darling!: Tallulah Bankhead, Stefanie Powers, Peter Vaughan, Maurice Kaufmann, Yootha Joyce, Donald Sutherland.
  • Cast: The snorkel: Peter Van Eyck, Betta St. John, Mandy Miller.
  • Cast: The curse of the mummy's tomb: Terence Morgan, Ronald Howard, Fred Clark, Jeanne Roland, George Pastell, Jack Gwillim, John Paul.
  • Cast: Scream of fear: Susan Strasberg, Ronald Lewis, Ann Todd, Christopher Lee, John Serret, Leonard Sachs, Anne Blake, Fred Johnson.
  • Cast: The revenge of Frankenstein: Peter Cushing, Francis Matthews, Eunice Gayson, Michael Gwynn.
  • Cast: Never take candy from a stranger: Gwen Watford, Patrick Allen, Felix Aylmer, Niall MacGinnis, Alison Leggatt, Bill Nagy, Michael Gwynn, Budd Knapp, MacDonald Parke.
  • Cast: The old dark house: Tom Poston, Robert Morley, Janette Scott, Joyce Grenfell.
  • Cast: The stranglers of Bombay: Guy Rolfe, Allan Cuthbertson, Andrew Cruickshank, George Pastell, Marne Maitland, Jan Holden, Paul Stassino, Tutte Lemkow.
  • Cast: Maniac: Kerwin Mathews, Nadia Gray, Donald Houston, Liliane Brousse.
  • Cast: Sword of Sherwood Forest: Richard Greene, Peter Cushing, Niall McGinnis, Richard Pasco, Jack Gwillim, Sarah Branch, Nigel Green, Vanda Godsell, Edwin Richfield, Charles Lamb, Dennis Lotis.
  • Cast: Stop me before I kill!: Claude Dauphin, Diane Cilento, Ronald Lewis, Francoise Rosay, Bernard Braden.
  • Cast: The terror of the Tongs: Christopher Lee, Yvonne Monlaur, Geoffrey Toone, Marne Maitland, Brian Worth, Ewen Solon.
  • Cast: Yesterday's enemy: Stanley Baker, Guy Rolfe, Leo McKern, Gordon Jackson, David Oxley, Richard Pasco, Philip Ahn.
  • Cast: The two faces of Dr. Jekyll: Paul Massie, Dawn Addams, Christopher Lee, David Kossoff, Norma Marla, Francis De Wolff, Joy Webster.
  • Cast: These are the damned: Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, Viveca Lindfors, Alexander Knox.
  • Cast: Cash on demand: Peter Cushing, Andre Morell, Richard Vernon, Norman Bird.
  • Cast: Creatures the world forgot: Julie Ege, Tony Bonner, Brian O'Shaughnessey, Robert John, Rosalie Crutchley.
  • In English; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
  • Cast: The Gorgon: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Richard Pasco, Barbara Shelley, Michael Goodliffe.

Summary

  • The curse of the mummy's tomb: British archaeologists and their American investor ship an Egyptian mummy's sarcophagus to London but someone has the amulet to revive the mummy that will then kill all those who disturbed its tomb.
  • Cash on demand: A charming but ruthless criminal holds the family of a bank manager hostage as part of a cold-blooded plan to steal 97,000 pounds.
  • Stop me before I kill!: After surviving a traumatic car accident, a race car driver travels to the Cote D'Azur to recover but is plagued by an urge to strangle his wife.
  • Die! Die! My darling!: A young woman is terrorized by her deceased fiancé's demented mother who blames her for her son's death.
  • Yesterday's enemy: In World War II, during the Japanese invasion of Burma, the lost remnant of a British Army Brigade HQ, led by the ruthless Captain Alan Langford, escapes through the jungle toward the British lines.
  • Creatures the world forgot: In prehistoric times, two brothers fight each other for the leadership of their tribe.
  • The pirates of Blood River: A group of ruthless pirates attack a seventeenth century Huguenot settlement on the Isle of Devon in search of treasure and will stop at nothing to obtain it.
  • The stranglers of Bombay: In the 1830s, a captain in the East India Company lobbies to investigate the criminal Thugee Cult of Kali, an organized crime group of stranglers and thieves.
  • The old dark house: In England, an American car salesman ends-up spending a stormy night at the mysterious and deadly mansion of a client's family.
  • These are the damned: An American tourist, a youth gang leader, and his troubled sister find themselves trapped in a top secret government facility experimenting on children.
  • Scream of fear: A wheelchair-bound young woman returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.
  • The two faces of Dr. Jekyll: Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
  • The Gorgon: In the early twentieth century, a Gorgon takes human form and terrorizes a small European village by turning its citizens to stone.
  • Never take candy from a stranger: Peter Carter meets official resistance when he finds his 9 year old daughter has been the victim of the pedophile patriarch of the town's most powerful family.
  • The camp on Blood Island: Deep in Malaya, as World War II is rapidly coming to an end, men, women and children, trapped by the Japanese invasion, are held captive in the Blood Island prison camp.
  • Sword of Sherwood Forest: While King Richard is away at the Crusades, some Nottingham nobles and their Sheriff plot to confiscate estates of fallen Crusaders but Robin Hood and Maid Marian foil their plan.
  • The revenge of Frankenstein: Having escaped execution and assumed an alias, Baron Frankenstein transplants his deformed underling's brain into a perfect body, but the effectiveness of the process and the secret of his identity soon begin to unravel.
  • The snorkel: Although the police have termed her mother's death a suicide, a teenage girl believes her step-father murdered her.
  • The terror of the Tongs: In 1910, Hong Kong members of a secret Tong crime syndicate protect their identities by murdering the daughter of a British sea captain who vows revenge.
  • Maniac: An American painter has an affair with a bar owner in a French village, and agrees to help murder her husband, who has escaped from a prison for the criminally insane.

Table of Contents

  • [Disc 8]. The pirates of Blood River / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents a Hammer Film production ; screenplay by John Hunter and John Gilling ; from a story by Jimmy Sangster ; produced by Anthony Nelson Keys ; directed by John Gilling (1962, 87 min., color, 2.35:1) -- Sword of Sherwood Forest / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents a Hammer Film production in association with Yeoman Films Ltd. ; screenplay by Alan Hackney ; produced by Sidney Cole and Richard Greene ; directed by Terence Fisher (1960, 80 min., color, 2.35:1).
  • [Disc 9]. The camp on Blood Island / Hammer Films presents ; screenplay by Jon Manchip White & Val Guest ; story by Jon Manchip White ; produced by Anthony Hinds ; directed by Val Guest (1958, 81 min., black and white, 2.35:1) -- Yesterday's enemy / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents a Hammer Film production ; written by Peter R. Newman ; produced by Michael Carreras ; directed by Val Guest (1959, 95 min., black and white, 2.35:1).
  • [Disc 4]. The snorkel / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents ; screenplay by Peter Myers and Jimmy Sangster ; story by Anthony Dawson ; produced by Michael Carreras ; directed by Guy Green (1958, 91 min., black and white, 2.35:1) -- Maniac / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents a Hammer Film production ; written and produced by Jimmy Sangster ; directed by Michael Carreras (1963, 87 min., black and white, 2.35:1).
  • [Disc 10]. Creatures the world forgot / Columbia Pictures presents a Hammer production ; written and produced by Michael Carreras ; directed by Don Chaffey (1971, 96 min., color, 1.85:1) -- Hammer at Columbia Pictures -- The actors of Hammer Film -- Curse of the mummy's tomb retrospective -- The two faces of Dr. Jekyll retrospective.
  • [Disc 7]. The stranglers of Bombay / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents a Hammer Film production in association with Kenneth Hyman ; written by David Z. Goodman ; producer, Anthony Hinds ; director, Terence Fisher (1959, 80 min., black and white, 2.35:1) -- The terror of the Tongs / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents a Hammer Film production ; written by Jimmy Sangster ; produced by Kenneth Hyman ; directed by Anthony Bushell (1961, 77 min., color, 1.66:1).
  • [Disc 6]. Never take candy from a stranger [original title: Never take sweets from a stranger] / a Columbia Pictures Corporation presentation of a Hammer Film production ; screenplay by John Hunter ; producer, Anthony Hinds ; director, Cyril Frankel (1960, 82 min., black and white, 2.35:1) -- Scream of fear [original title: Taste of fear] / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents a Hammer Film production ; written and produced by Jimmy Sangster ; directed by Seth Holt (1961, 82 min., black and white, 1.66:1).
  • [Disc 5]. Die! Die! My darling! [original title: Fanatic] / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents a Hammer Film production ; screenplay by Richard Matheson ; produced by Anthony Hinds ; directed by Silvio Narizzano (1965, 97 min., color, 1.85:1) -- Stop me before I kill! [original title: The full treatment] / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents a Val Guest production ; in association with Falcon Films Limited ; screenplay by Val Guest and Ronald Scott Thorn ; produced and directed by Val Guest (1960, 108 min., black and white, 2.35:1).
  • [Disc 2]. These are the damned [original title: The damned] / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents a Hammer Film production ; screenplay, Evan Jones ; producer, Anthony Hinds ; director, Joseph Losey (1963, 95 min., black and white, 2.35:1) -- The two faces of Dr. Jekyll / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents a Hammer Film production ; screenplay by Wolf Mankowitz ; produced by Michael Carreras ; directed by Terence Fisher (1960, 89 min., color, 2.35:1).
  • [Disc 1]. The revenge of Frankenstein / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents a Hammer Film production ; written by Jimmy Sangster ; produced by Anthony Hinds ; directed by Terence Fisher (1958, 90 min., color, 1.66:1) -- The curse of the mummy's tomb / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents a Hammer Film production ; screenplay by Henry Younger ; produced and directed by Michael Carreras (1964, 81 min., color, 2.35:1).
  • [Disc 3]. The old dark house / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents a William Castle-Hammer production ; screenplay by Robert Dillon ; produced and directed by William Castle (1963, 87 min., color, 1.85:1) -- The Gorgon / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents a Hammer Film production ; screenplay by John Gilling ; based on an original story by J. Llewellyn Devine ; produced by Anthony Nelson Keys ; directed by Terence Fisher (1964, 84 min, color, 1.78:1) -- Cash on demand / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents a Hammer Film production ; screenplay by David T. Chantler, Lewis Greifer ; directed by Quentin Lawrence (1961, 80 min., black and white, 1.66:1).

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  • Date: 2026-09-11T20:12:26.602766+00:00
  • Agent: cbc
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 22550893

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