Ticket to Happiness

A rich industrialist is persuaded to help out a youth club to which he was initially opposed.

Trailer by The Hammer Graveyard

Production Details

A Falcon Films production – distributed by Hammer Films
RCA Sound Recording
Approved certificate MPAA No. 19286
Black & White 30 mins featurette

Filming dates: 1959
UK Release: November 1959

Filming:
Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire

Stills from film

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Cast & Crew

CREW	NAME	CREDITED	AGE AT RELEASE	BIRTH	DEATH	AGE	CREDITS	UNCREDITED	TOTAL HAMMER
1st Assistant	Frank Ernst	Yes	41	1918	Jan 1999	81	1		1
Art Director	Don Mingaye	Yes	41	1 Jan 1929	8 Nov 2017	88	29	15	44
Camera Operator	John Winbolt	Yes	37	14 Dec 1922	8 Jan 1992	69	2		2
Continuity	Marjorie Lavelly	Yes	38	12 Apr 1921	22 Sep 2006	85	9		9
Director	Peter Bryan	Yes	40	28 Sep 1919	Sep 1972	52	28		28
Director of Photography	Michael Reed	Yes	30	7 Jul 1929	15 Dec 2022	93	7	3	10
Editor	James Groom	Yes	34	1 Jan 1925	17 May 2016	91	14	2	16
Hairdressing	Hilda Fox	Yes	42	26 Dec 1917	Feb 1990	72	2		2
Make-up	Colin Garde	Yes	44	16 Jul 1915	Dec 1990	75	2	3	5
Producer	Anthony Nelson-Keys	Yes	48	13 Nov 1911	19 Mar 1985	73	44		44
Production Manager	Don Weeks	Yes	55	15 Nov 1904	Mar 1988	83	32		32
Sound Recordist	Jock May	Yes	54	1 Jan 1905	8 Jan 1991	86	32	1	33
Wardrobe	Rosemary Burrows	Yes					37	5	42
Writer	Peter Bryan	Yes	40	28 Sep 1919	Sep 1972	52	28		28
CAST
Architect	Michael Ward	Yes	50	9 Apr 1909	8 Nov 1997	88	6		6
Bert	Malcolm Knight	Yes	21	2 Jun 1935	15 Nov 2006	71	1		1
Commentator	Raymond Glendenning	Yes	52	25 Sep 1907	23 Feb 1974	66	1		1
Dennis	Roy Hines	Yes	17	16 Feb 1942	20 Aug 1982	40	1		1
Frank Birtwhistle	Jack Allen	Yes	52	23 Oct 1907	25 May 1995	87	1		1
Jane	Cherrie Butlin	Yes					1		1
Mr Gruber	Charles Lloyd-Pack	Yes	57	10 Oct 1902	22 Dec 1983	81	9		9
Mr Maitland	Elwyn Brook-Jones	Yes	47	11 Dec 1911	4 Sep 1962	50	2		2
Polly	April Vivian	Yes					1		1
Ralph Maitland	Jeremy Longhurst	Yes	28	26 Jun 1931	18 Feb 2001	69	6		6
Syd	Alan Coleshill	Yes	15	2 Mar 1943	27 Mar 2001	58	2		2
The Vicar	Michael Goodliffe	Yes	45	1 Oct 1914	20 Mar 1976	61	6		6

Footnotes

Falcon Films was one of Hammer’s “Bird Companies” referring to their individual, secondary corporate production entities or subsidiary shell companies—often named after birds (such as Jackdaw Productions).

1959 BBFC Cert. “U”

Production Details

Stills from film

Cast & Crew

Footnotes

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