A cheap fiction writer is commissioned to write a crime story which deals with a young boy’s gradual decline through lack of parental control.
Trailer by The Hammer Graveyard
Production Details
Exclusive Films Presents, a Marylebone-Hammer Production
Black & White 67 minutes
Filming dates: 17th February – 23rd May 1947
UK Release: 14th October 1948
Studio:
Marylebone Studios, Marylebone, London
On Location:
Gilston Park, Hertfordshire
Blackpool, Lancashire
Stills from the film
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Cast & Crew
Red = Uncredited
Footnotes
This was Michael Ripper’s first film for Hammer. As Hammer’s most prolific actor, he went on to appear in 34 of their productions.
The film was based on the career of criminal Stanley Thurston, who appeared in the cast as a character based on himself. Thurston was famous for his numerous escapes from prison, 5 times in 15 years. He was released from prison in October 1946. The film had trouble with the British censors who thought the film glamorised a real life criminal. Thurston had to be billed as “Charles Stuart.”