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The Reptile (Original title)
Dates: 1966 (Copyright), 06 March 1966 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: John Gilling

Synopsis: Horror. A nineteenth-century Cornish village is terrorised by a woman who changes into a snake at periodic intervals, following a curse put upon her by the members of a bizarre sect uncovered by her father while working in Borneo. The curse is eventually broken by a couple newly arrived in the village.

Genre:
Horror
Releases
Date: 1966Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Colour - Technicolor - SoundRuntime: 91 mins Length: 8140 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (27)
©: Hammer Film Productions Limited, A Seven Arts production: Seven Arts, A Hammer Film production: Hammer Film, Distributed by: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, Produced by: Anthony Nelson Keys, Production Manager: George Fowler, Assistant Director: Bill Cartlidge, Continuity: Lorna Selwyn, Screenplay by: John Elder, Director of Photography: Arthur Grant, Camera Operator: Moray Grant, Special Effects: Bowie Films Ltd., Supervising Editor: James Needs, Editor: Roy Hyde, Production Designer: Bernard Robinson, Art Director: Don Mingaye, Wardrobe: Rosemary Burrows, Make-up: Roy Ashton, Hair Stylist: Frieda Steiger, Colour by: DeLuxe, Music Composed by: Don Banks, Musical Supervisor: Philip Martell, Sound Recordist: William Bulkley, Sound Editor: Roy Baker, Sound System: RCA Sound Recording, Produced at: Bray Studios
Cast (11)
Noel Willman (Dr Franklyn), Ray Barrett (Captain Harry George Spalding), Jennifer Daniel (Valerie Spalding), Jacqueline Pearce (Anna Franklyn), Michael Ripper (Tom Bailey), John Laurie (Mad Peter), Charles Lloyd Pack (vicar), Marne Maitland (Malay), David Baron (Charles Spalding), Harold Goldblatt (solicitor), George Woodbridge (Old George Garnsey)