Elliot Scott

And when the characters begin experiences unexplained events, the building already feels like a place where the ordinary rules of space don't quite apply.

The film's production designer, Elliot Scott, also deserves enormous credit.

The elaborate interiors were constructed at MGM's British studios, with the sets designed to feel imposing, oppressive and strangely disorientating.

Wise wanted the rooms to feel unsettling even when they were brightly lit.

Mm-hmm.

They handcrafted from nothing [laughs] by, by Elliot Scott, production designer, who I guess also did Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana Jones: Temple of Doom, Labyrinth, Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Oh, so he's like the best in the biz.

Yeah.

Really?

... we're in some sort of his- real historic home like Lyndhurst or Greystone Mansion or something, but, but they, they are sets designed by Elliot Scott.

Um, but, uh, it, it's-- even though the house is enormous, this is still a claustrophobic, uh, drama because the, uh, for the most part, we have just four characters played by Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Russ Tamblyn, and Richard Johnson, all, um, sequestered here in this home.

Uh, later, we have a treat because Lois Maxwell comes in as the wife of Rich- Richard Johnson's character, and we, of course, know Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond movies.