The police are called in when a woman is murdered at a luxury Bond Street shop.
Production Details
An Exclusive Films Presentation
A Marylebone-Hammer Production
Black & White 50 minutes
Based on the novel by Christianna Brand
Filming Began: January 1947
UK Release 14th July 1947
Studio:
Marylebone Studios, Marylebone, London, England
On Location:
Pontefract Castle, Wigmore St, London. – The pub was demolished in 2015, except for the facade.
Stills from the film
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Cast & Crew
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer |
Director | Lionel Tomlinson | 39 | 5 Dec 1907 | 23 Sep 1972 | 64 | 2 | 2 | |
Director of Photography | Stanley Clinton MBKS | 40 | 1907 | 1989 | 82 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
Hats | Gertrude Harris | 2 | 2 | |||||
Make Up | Harry Duvo | 2 | 2 | |||||
Producer | Henry Halsted | 40 | 1907 | 10 Mar 1970 | 63 | 6 | 6 | |
Production Supervisor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/anthony-hinds/# | 24 | 18 Sep 1922 | 30 Sep 2013 | 91 | 88 | 1 | 89 |
Sound | Charles Hasher | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||
Sound | Dick Farge | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer |
Agnes Gregory | Veronica Rose | 36 | 8 Jul 1911 | 25 Jan 1968 | 56 | 2 | 2 | |
Aileen | Denise Anthony | 21 | 1926 | 2002 | 76 | 1 | 1 | |
Detective Charlesworth | Don Stannard | 31 | 1916 | 9 Jul 1949 | 33 | 4 | 4 | |
Frank Bevan | Kenneth Warrington | 1 | 1 | |||||
Magda Doon | Patricia Laffan | 28 | 19 Mar 1919 | 10 Mar 2014 | 94 | 2 | 2 | |
Miss Almond Blossom | Diana Wong | 30 | 20 Oct 1916 | 14 Oct 2012 | 95 | 1 | 1 | |
Mr Cecil | Bill Hodge | 2 | 2 | |||||
Mrs Arris | Nora Gordon | 53 | 29 Nov 1893 | 11 May 1970 | 76 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
Sergeant Bedd | Leslie Spurling | 1 | 1 | |||||
Victoria David | Elsa Tee | 29 | 3 Sep 1917 | 25 Dec 2006 | 89 | 1 | 1 |
DVD Cover
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Footnotes
Although he doesn’t receive a credit here, future Hammer producer and son of Hammer founder Will Hammer (real name Will Hinds) worked on this film as Production Supervisor.
Lionel (Tommy) Tomlinson also directed Hammer’s Who Killed Van Loon1948.
Don Stannard went on to play the title role in Hammer’s Dick Barton trilogy.