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Anthology | Crawling Hand
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The first of the "portmanteau" horror movies to be made by Amicus Productions. According to co-producer Milton Subotsky, he was inspired to write a multi-story horror movie by his admiration for Ealing Studios' Dead of Night (1945), which used a similar format. Indeed, Dr Shreck's opening line ("Pardon me, I think there is room for one more in here, is there not?") echoes the earlier film's celebrated line "Just room for one more inside, sir!"
Faith Kent and Phoebe Nicholls were real-life mother and daughter, although they appear in different segments of this movie.
Acker Bilk was hired to play Biff Bailey, but had a heart attack and was replaced by Roy Castle.
When Biff Bailey is seen running in fear down a street, he passes a cinema with a poster advertising "Dr. Terror's House of Horrors", which instead of a cast lists several characters from the film such as Sandor Shreck, Franklyn Marsh, and Sammy Coin (also Biff Bailey).
Roy Castle buys a packet of cigarettes and immediately puts them in his pocket. This is because Roy Castle was a life long non smoker. Ironically, he died of lung cancer, probably from secondary smoke after a lifetime in jazz clubs.
"Dawson: Schreck? That's a German word isn't it? Means fear or horror. Dr. Schreck: A more exact translation would be terror. An unfortunate misnomer for I am the mildest of men."
"Hopkins: There's one thing that every intelligent thing is afraid of - fire! If a species ever develops that isn't, it could be the end of the world."
