Asylum (Original title)
Dates: 1972 (Copyright), 18 November 1972 (Release)Countries: United Kingdom, USADirected by: Roy Ward Baker
Synopsis: A young doctor applies for a job at an asylum and is challenged to guess which of several inmates is the former head of the institution, who has now gone criminally insane, Doctor B. Starr. The doctor hears the strange stories of how these inmates came to be locked away, before deciding who he thinks is Doctor Starr.
Genres: Horror, Anthology
Subjects: Doctors, Mental hospitals
Dates: 1972 (Copyright), 18 November 1972 (Release)Countries: United Kingdom, USADirected by: Roy Ward Baker
Synopsis: A young doctor applies for a job at an asylum and is challenged to guess which of several inmates is the former head of the institution, who has now gone criminally insane, Doctor B. Starr. The doctor hears the strange stories of how these inmates came to be locked away, before deciding who he thinks is Doctor Starr.
Genres: Horror, Anthology
Subjects: Doctors, Mental hospitals
Credits
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©: Amicus Productions Ltd., An Amicus production: Amicus, Presented by: Harbor Productions Inc., Executive Producer: Gustave Berne, Produced by: Max J. Rosenberg, Milton Subotsky, Production Manager: Teresa Bolland, Assistant Director: Anthony Waye, Continuity: Pamela Davis, Casting Director: Ronald Curtis, Written by: Robert Bloch, Director of Photography: Denys Coop, Camera Operator: Neil Binney, Special Effects: Ernie Sullivan, Editor: Peter Tanner, Art Director: Tony Curtis, Set Dresser: Fred Carter, Wardrobe Mistress: Bridget Sellers, Chief Make-up: Roy Ashton, Chief Hairdresser: Joan Carpenter, Titles by: G.S.E. Ltd., Music Composed, Arranged and Conducted by: Douglas Gamley, Sound Mixer: Norman Bolland, Logo [Sound System]: RCA Sound Systems, Dubbing Mixer: Robert Jones, Sound Editor: Clive Smith, Produced at: Shepperton Studios
Cast
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Patrick Magee (Doctor Lionel Rutherford), Robert Powell (Doctor Martin), Geoffrey Bayldon (Max Reynolds), Barbara Parkins (Bonnie), Richard Todd (Walter), Sylvia Syms (Ruth), Peter Cushing (Smith), Barry Morse (Bruno), Ann Firbank (Anna), John Franklyn-Robbins (Stebbins), Britt Ekland (Lucy), Charlotte Rampling (Barbara), James Villiers (George), Megs Jenkins (Miss Higgins), Herbert Lom (Doctor Byron), Sylvia Marriott (nurse), Frank Forsyth (Max), Daniel Jones, Tony Wall