With the help of his driver, a criminal pulls off a daring robbery at a casino in the South of France, then double-crosses and kills him. In the struggle, he is shot and wounded. Stumbling along the shore in agony, he takes refuge in a lonely beach house, where, he finds to his cost, that the owner has a trick or two up his sleeve.
Black & White trailer by The Hammer Graveyard
Production Details
A Hammer production released by Exclusive Films
Copyright MCMLV by Exclusive Films
RCA Sound Recording
Eastmancolour by Humphries Laboratories 27 minutes featurette
Unspecified Panamorphic, wide-screen process
Filming dates: 18th July – 12th August 1955
UK Release: 9th April 1956
Filming:
Bray Film Studios, Windsor , Berkshire – Studio including the Mediterranean casino
Wapseys Wood Gravel Pits, Gerrards Cross , Buckinghamshire – Fight in the quarry
Cliffs overlooking St Margarets Bay, Dover , Kent – Rolls Royce goes over the cliff
Sandwich, Kent – Beach scenes
Stills from film
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Cast & Crew
Footnotes
Director Joseph Losey worked for Hammer again on The Damned (1961), but his more famous films were made elsewhere and include The Servant (1963), Modesty Blaise (1966), Accident (1967) and The Go-Between (1971). He died in 1984.