Headless Ghost, The

Date: 1959
Director: Peter Graham Scott
Production Company: Merton Park Studios

Stars: Richard Lyon, Liliane Sottane, David Rose, Clive Revill
Location(s): Kent

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Storyline:

Three young people try to help when they encounter a ghost who is trapped in limbo until he retrieves his lost head.

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Page compiled by Phil Wilkinson

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Bill, Ingrid and Ronnie, three friends from university, join a tour to visit Ambrose Castle in the English countryside. The Harrington bodied AEC coach has just driven past the Gatehouse on Castle Road, Allington in Kent.

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As the Guide describes the supposedly haunted castle, a short time later the coach arrives at its destination. The 13th century Allington Castle at Allington.

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The Guide (Don Bisset) directs his Passengers to the castle as Bill (Richard Lyon), Ingrid (Liliane Sottane) and Ronnie (David Rose) alight from the coach. Facing the Gatehouse at Allington Castle to the north of Maidstone.

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Queuing to pay their 2 shillings each, the Visitors enter Ambrose Castle. Allington Castle also appears in the 1975 Children's Film Foundation production 'Robin Hood Junior' as well as 'Castle De'ath', an episode of television's 'The Avengers'.

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Entering the courtyard, the Tourists file behind the Castle Guide. The Courtyard at Allington Castle.

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The Castle Guide leads the Party into the fortification where the 16th Earl of Ambrose takes over, introducing his Guests to portraits of his ancestors. Facing south in the Courtyard at Allington Castle in Kent.

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At the end of the day the Earl of Ambrose (Jack Allen) returns home from the castle where the three exchange students have hidden themselves, intent on seeing a ghost.