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The Hammer Classic All Nighter (-)

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  • Genre: Sci-Fi
  • Release date: 1st January 2007

Plot Synopsis

SCI-FI-LONDON and HAMMER FILMS are presenting this night to help raise money for London's coolest radio station RESONANCE FM 104.4FM which needs to raise £60,000 to stay on air. All proceeds from this all-nighter will be donated to the station. You can also help by visiting www.resonancefm.com

STOLEN FACE

(UK, 1952, Dir: Terence Fisher)
Paul Henreid plays Dr Ritter, a plastic surgeon who falls in love with a beautiful concert pianist, Alice. However, Alice is engaged to be married and, afraid to tell Ritter, she runs away. Ritter is devastated.

At his London surgery he works on Lily, a female convict whose face is disfigured. He makes her look like Alice and marries her. However, Lily has not changed her ways and returns to a life of crime.

Meanwhile Alice calls off her engagement and goes to see her true love Ritter, only to find another woman who looks exactly like her.

X, THE UNKNOWN

(UK, 1957, Dir: Leslie Norman)
When the population of a village near to an abandoned quarry is devastated by lethal radiation burns, Dr Royston tries to convince authorities of the possibility of a life from deep within Earth that has surfaced to feed on humans.

Director Leslie Norman creates an inky-black atmosphere, the gooey remains of a man whose flesh is found melting off his skeleton is one of the most startling moments of any Hammer picture.

FOUR-SIDED TRIANGLE

(UK, 1953, Dir: Terence Fisher)
Lena returns to her hometown on a sentimental journey and is reunited with her childhood friend Bill, who is now a scientist. Bill and his colleague, Robin, have developed a 'duplicating machine' (think cloning device). When Robin and Lena fall in love, the heartbroken Bill creates a duplicate Lena. Unfortunately, since the clone is an exact copy it also falls in love with Robin. A dreadful fire claims the life of one of the two Lenas – but which one?

SPACEWAYS

(UK, 1953, Dir: Terence Fisher)
At a secret rocket base in England, Scientist Howard Duff (BRUTE FORCE, THE NAKED CITY) is accused of committing the perfect crime - murdering his adulterous wife and her Russian spy lover and disposing of their bodies by firing them into space aboard a satellite. To prove his innocence, he must retrieve the orbiter.

This is the first British space adventure since THINGS TO COME in 1936 and the first science fiction film produced by Hammer.