Up the Creek

During the Cold War, an idiotic R.N. lieutenant, who cannot be fired due to his connections, is transferred from the Admiralty to the far away Mothball Fleet to a rusty destroyer whose crew is running an illegal money-making scheme.

Trailer by The Hammer Graveyard

Production Details

Exclusive Films Presents A Byron Film Production
RCA Sound Recording
Photographed in Hammerscope
Black & White 80 mins

Filming dates: 11th November – 24th December 1957
UK Release: 2nd June 1958

Studio:
New Elstree Studios, Elstree Road, Elstree, Hertfordshire

Location:
Thomas Ward Ship Breakers, Greys, Essex – Scenes of moored destroyer

Stills from film

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Cast & Crew

Red = Uncredited

CREW	NAME	AGE AT RELEASE	BIRTH	DEATH	AGE	CREDITS	UNCREDITED	TOTAL HAMMER
Art Director	Elven Webb	47	29 Aug 1910	Sep 1979	69	1		1
Art Director	Ward Richards	53	22 Mar 1905	1967	61	1		1
Assistant Director	John Peverall	27	1931	3 Oct 2009	78	21		21
Camera Operator	Moray Grant	40	13 Nov 1917	17 Sep 1977	59	29		29
Continuity	Gladys Reeve					1		1
Director	Val Guest	46	11 Dec 1911	10 May 2006	94	30		30
Director of Photography	Arthur Grant	43	1915	1972	57	34		34
Editor	Helen Wiggins	57	1901	12 Feb 1978	77	1		1
Make-up	Alec Garfath	42	17 Jun 1915	1971	55	2		2
Music Composer	Tony Lowery	70	5 Mar 1888	29 Feb 1976	87	1		1
Musical Director	Tony Fones	38	19 Oct 1919	30 Oct 1997	78	1		1
Original Story and Screenplay	Val Guest	46	11 Dec 1911	10 May 2006	94	30		30
Original Story and Screenplay	John Warren	41	13 Nov 1916	1977	60	6	2	8
Original Story and Screenplay	Len Heath	31	19 Mar 1927	28 Jul 2017	90	2		2
Producer	Henry Halsted	51	1907	10 Mar 1970	63	6		6
Production Supervisor	Fred A Swann					2		2
Sound Supervisor	George Adams					1		1
Technical Advisor	J H Pidler					1		1
Third Assistant Director	*Ted Morley	24	1934	2004	70	3	1	4
Cast	Name	0	Birth	Death	0	0	0	0
Decorator	Michael Ripper	45	27 Jan 1913	28 Jun 2000	87	34	2	36
Farm Labourer	Donald Bisset	47	3 Aug 1910	10 Aug 1995	85	2		2
Flag Lt.	Tom Gill	41	26 Jul 1916	22 Jul 1971	54	4	1	5
Lieutenant	Peter Wayne					1		1
Lily	Vera Day	22	4 Aug 1935		89	4		4
Lofty	Max Butterfield	26	10 Jun 1931	1991	59	2	1	3
Lt. Commander	Hugh Latimer	45	12 May 1913	12 Jun 2006	93	3		3
Lt. Fairweather	David Tomlinson	41	7 May 1917	24 Jun 2000	83	2		2
Nelson	Michael Goodliffe	43	1 Oct 1914	20 Mar 1976	61	6		6
Perkins	Lionel Murton	43	2 Jun 1915	26 Sep 2006	91	3		3
Policeman	Leonard Fenton	32	29 Apr 1926	29 Jan 2022	95	2	1	3
Publican	Reginald Beckwith	49	2 Nov 1908	26 Jun 1965	56	6		6
Regulating Petty Officer	Jack McNaughton	52	22 Dec 1905	22 Feb 1990	84	3	1	4
Scouse	David Lodge	36	19 Aug 1921	18 Oct 2003	82	10		10
Small Boy	Malcolm Ranson	12	15 Jan 1943	12 Mar 2022	75	1		1
Station Master	Frank Pentingell	67	1 Jan 1891	17 Feb 1966	75	1		1
Steady Barker	Lionel Jeffries	31	10 Jun 1926	19 Feb 2010	83	5		5
Susanne	Lillian Sottane	24	1934	12 Jun 2015	81	2		2
Webster	Barry Lowe	33	1925	12 Dec 2011	86	6	2	8
With	*Hazel Sutton						2	2

Original Poster

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Footnotes

Although filmed in Hammerscope and released by Exclusive, this film was purely a Byron Film production and not a co-production with Hammer, as is the case with the sequel Further up the Creek, also 1958.

The warship seen in the film was the ‘Berkeley Castle’, an ex Castle Class Corvette of the Royal Navy.

This was popular comedian and “Goon” Peter Sellers first starring role.

David Tomlinson went on to appear in Disney classice Mary Poppins (1964), The Love Bug (1968) and Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971). His final acting appearance was in The Fiendish Plot of Dr Fu Manchu (1980), which was also the final film of Peter Sellers.

1958 BBFC Cert. “U”

Production Details

Stills from film

Cast & Crew

Original Poster

Footnotes

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