Once again, wonder man special agent Dick Barton is called on to save Britain from almost certain disaster. This time he and his chum Snowey White do battle with ruthless foreign activists, who have developed a machine to blow up the town of Blackpool and annihilate its inhabitants!
Production Details
A Hammer production released by Exclusive Films by arrangement with Ted Kavanagh Associated.
Adapted from the radio feature by arrangement with the BBC.
Opening credit:- “The major part of this film was shot on actual locations. The producers wish to thank the following for facilities granted – The Tower Blackpool, American Overseas Airways, KLM Airways, The South London Electricity Board, The London Zoo.”
Recorded on the Viking sound system.
Screenplay by Elizabeth Baron and Ambrose Grayson from an original story by Ambrose Grayson.
Black & White 73 minutes
Filming dates: August – 28th October 1948
UK Release 18th July 1949
Filming:
Viking Film Studios, 1-5 St Mary Abbots Place, Kensington,, London – Studio
Blackpool Tower Ballroom, Blackpool, Lancashire – On location
London Zoo, London – Blackpools reptile house
Haslemere, Surrey – The first village attacked by the sonic ray (High Glen)
Liverpool, Lancashire – On location
Pinner , Middlesex – Possibly Lord Armadales House
Stills from the film
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Cast & Crew
Original Poster
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Footnotes
Camera Operator Peter Newbrook eventually became a Producer. His credits include the 1967 horror film Corruption, starring Peter Cushing.
Don Stannard (Dick Barton) and Sebastian Cabot (Fouracada) were involved in a car crash in Cookham Dean, Berkshire, England, on July 9, 1949. Stannard, who was driving, was killed instantly but Cabot escaped with only minor injuries.
Sebastian Cabot went on to provid the voice for Bagheera in Disney’s Jungle Book (1967).
A young Peter Wyngarde – later TV’s Jason King – has his first (uncredited) acting role here.