Night Creatures

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The mysterious scarecrow keeps watch in Night Creatures
The mysterious scarecrow keeps watch in Night Creatures

Night Creatures is the U.S. title of a 1962 Hammer Film Productions film called Captain Clegg in the UK. Using the alias Rev. Blyss, Clegg (portrayed by Peter Cushing) masquerades as the vicar of Dymchurch but also leads a band of phantom-like smugglers who ply their trade on Romney Marsh.

The film is loosely based on Doctor Syn and co-stars Patrick Allen and Oliver Reed.

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[edit] Trivia

  • The main character's name was changed from Doctor Syn to Dr. Blyss to avoid rights problems with Disney who had a competing film version released in the same time period.
  • Hammer originally planned to film Richard Matheson's apocalyptic horror novel I Am Legend under the title Night Creatures. The plan was scotched when the British censor told them that such a film would be outright banned in England. Hammer had already promised their American distributor a film called Night Creatures, so they sold the already-completed Captain Clegg under this title.

[edit] Cast

[edit] Credits

  • Directed by Peter Graham-Scott
  • Screenplay by John Elder (Anthony Hinds)
  • Additional dialogue by Barbara S. Harper
  • Produced by John Temple-Smith
  • Music by Don Banks
  • Musical supervisor: Philip Martell
  • Director of photography: Arthur Grant, B.S.C.
  • Production design by Bernard Robinson
  • Art direction by Don Mingaye
  • Supervising editor: James Needs
  • Edited by Eric Boyd-Perkins
  • Make-up by Roy Ashton
  • Special effects by Les Bowie
  • Fight sequences staged by Bob Simmons

[edit] External links

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