Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Strong
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- It goes hard on frights — not a wind-down.
The story
A Victorian scientist returns to London with his paleontological bag-of-bones discovery from Papua New Guinea. Unfortunately, when exposed to water, flesh returns to the bones, unleashing a malevolent entity on the scientist's family and friends.
- skeleton
- monster
- reincarnation
- insane asylum
- murder
- creature
- corpse
- scientist
- monkey
- attempted rape
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Peter Cushing
Emmanuel Hildern
Lorna Heilbron
Penelope Hildern
Christopher Lee
James Hildern
George Benson
Waterlow
- Catherine Finn — Emily
- Hedger Wallace — Doctor Perry
- Duncan Lamont — Inspector
- Kenneth J. Warren — Charles Lenny
- Larry Taylor — Chief Asylum Warder
- Harry Locke — Barman
- Robert Swann — Young Aristocrat
- Jenny Runacre — Marguerite Hildern
- David Bailie — Young Doctor
- Michael Ripper — Carter
- Alexandra Dane — Bar Girl
- Directed
- Freddie Francis
- Written
- Peter Spenceley, Jonathan Rumbold
Production
- Rating
- 5.9 / 10 · 115 ratings
- Studio
- World Film Services, Tigon British Film Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
