Overview:
Hugo is a brilliant turn-of-the-century scientist, loved and respected by his family and friends, admired by his colleagues. But he is a man quickly becoming obsessed with a curious and frightening question... what is the mysterious apparition found in the photographs of his dying subjects?| Status: | Released (1972-12-05) |
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| Screen: | Christina Beers, Laurence Beers, Brian Comport |
| Productions: | Glendale |
| Production Countries: | United Kingdom |
| Spoken Languages: | English |
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Casts
- 24682: Robert Powell - Giles Cunningham
- 41957: Robert Stephens - Sir Hugo Cunningham
- 18021: Jane Lapotaire - Christina Cunningham
- 65024: Alex Scott - Sir Edward Barett
- 26674: Ralph Arliss - Clive Cunningham
- 31940: Fiona Walker - Anna Wheatley
- 184910: Terry Scully - Pauper
Crews
- 148745: Peter Newbrook - Director - Directing
- 84038: Brian Comport - Screenplay - Writing
- 2437140: Roger Simons - Assistant Director - Directing
- 1650092: Phyllis Crocker - Continuity - Directing
- 3885358: Chris Holden - Camera Operator - Camera
- 1406343: Jimmy Evans - Makeup Artist - Costume & Make-Up
- 1434637: Stephanie Kaye - Hairstylist - Costume & Make-Up
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Reviews
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_**Original, intelligent Hammer-esque horror from the early 70s**_ In 1875, a squire in England and his adopted son (Robert Stephens & Robert Powell) find a possible means of acquiring immortality by trapping the spirit of death, aka the mythological ‘asphyx’ or what we would call ....
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"Sir Hugo" (Robert Stephens) is a much respected scientist in Victorian Britain fascinated by motion pictures. Whilst filming his friends punting on the river; they have a calamitous accident and die. What shows up on his photography afterwards intrigues him - it seems as though a my ....
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