Unusually for an Anglo Amalgamated release (which normally went out on the ABC circuit), The Hypnotist was released on Rank's Gaumont circuit in July 1957 as the bottom half of a double bill with Universal's Douglas Sirk melodrama Interlude. Even more unusually, the double bill played for three weeks at the Gaumont, Haymarket from July 4th 1957 for three weeks. Usually B movies did not get a West End screening.