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Roy Ward Baker said he was approached by John Pennington with the script by Willis Hall and Keith Waterhouse. "It was a good script," says Baker. "The two sailors were given some sour wartime humour." The producers wanted John Mills to play the captain and asked Baker, "to contact him because we'd made so many pictures together.
A fictionalised version of author R. Chetwynd-Hayes is approached on a city street by a strange man who turns out to be a starving vampire named Erasmus. Erasmus bites the writer, and in gratitude for the small "donation", takes his (basically unharmed but bewildered) victim to the titular club, which is a covert gathering place for a multitude of supernatural creatures.
Roy Ward Baker (born Roy Horace Baker; 19 December 1916 – 5 October 2010) was an English film director. [ 1 ] He was known professionally as Roy Baker until 1967, when he adopted Roy Ward Baker as his screen credit.
(also known as Fengriffen and Bride of Fengriffen [2] [1]) is a 1973 British gothic horror film directed by Roy Ward Baker. It stars Peter Cushing, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee, Stephanie Beacham and Ian Ogilvy. [3] It is one of the few feature-length horror stories by Amicus, a company best known for anthology or "portmanteau" films. Baker felt ...
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A Night to Remember is a 1958 British historical disaster film, directed by Roy Ward Baker.Its screenplay by Eric Ambler was based on the 1955 book by Walter Lord, depicting the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912, after it struck an iceberg.
Roy Ward Baker later spoke about the film, declaring that "the whole set-up was slip-shod, and nobody knew what anyone was doing." and that the film was "a failure, an absolute failure". [ 4 ] Michael Carreras later said this "wasn't such a good idea" although he felt "some of the film is quite good."