James Bernard was most famous for composing the scores to numerous Hammer horrors, including Horror of Dracula (1958). Ironically, however, it was for this film that he won his only Oscar - as co-writer of the screenplay, not the music.
There are a number of literary references in Seven Days to Noon:
Among the jottings on Professor Willingdon's notes -- "The wicked beareth rule" is from the Bible, Proverbs 29:2 (...when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn) and "Thus with a mighty fall shall Babylon the great city be cast down" Revelation 18:21;
"Dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon" comes from John Milton's Samson Agonistes, a play about the biblical character, Samson, who is granted the power to destroy the temple and kill all the Philistines (and himself).
The professor later quotes Revelation 6:4, "The horse came forth, the red horse, and to him that sat thereon was given to take the peace from the earth. And there was given unto him a great sword."
The speaker in Hyde Park says "There shall be wars and rumors of wars." Nearly identical words are found in Matthew 24:6, Mark 13:7 and the Book of Mormon, 2 Nephi 25:12.
A man carries a sandwich board quoting "The wages of sin is death," again from the Bible, Romans 6:23.
Genuine BBC newscasters Frederick Allen and John Snagge, and NBC's Merrill Mueller appear as themselves.
The Government Research Laboratory at Wallingford is run by Professor Dolby. It is a Ministry of Supply Experimental Station, in Buckinghamshire.
The film was a surprise comeback vehicle for Olive Sloane, who plays Goldie. She had been in films since 1921.
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