Break in the Circle

Opening title:- “East-West German Frontier”; a Polish scientist escapes to West Germany. Then, Cornish smuggler Skip Morgan is hired to help him escape the communist agents pursuing him. But Morgan has more than just the communists to deal with – he also has to contend with the unwelcome attentions of Special Branch, at the same time trying to thwart the double-crossing ambitions of his employer, Baron Keller…

Trailer by The Hammer Graveyard

Production Details

A Hammer Film production released by Exclusive Films (UK) Twentieth Century-Fox (USA)
Copyright MCMLIV by Exclusive Films Ltd.
RCA Sound Recording
Eastman Colour by Denham Laboratories 91 mins

Filming dates: 24th August – 1st October 1954
UK Release: 28th February 1955

From the novel by Philip Lorraine

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

On Location:
London
Polperro, Cornwall
Hamburg, Germany

Stills from film

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Cast & Crew

Cast – Complete awaiting verification

CREW	NAME	CREDITED	AGE AT RELEASE	BIRTH	DEATH	AGE	CREDITS	UNCREDITED	TOTAL HAMMER
Additional dialogue	Robert Westerby	No	45	3 Jul 1909	16 Nov 1968	59		1	1
Art Director	J. Elder Wills	Yes	54	26 Apr 1900	1970	69	22		22
Assistant Director	Bill Shore	Yes					5	2	7
Assistant Editor	Spencer Reeve	No	31	10 Dec 1923	15 Dec 1975	52	8	2	10
Associate Producer	Mickey Delamar	Yes	47	1908	1971	63	10	1	11
Boom Operator	Percy Britten	No	35	1 Oct 1919	1996	76		23	23
Camera Operator	Len Harris	Yes	38	19 May 1916	21 Feb 1995	78	63	2	65
Clapper Loader	Tom Friswell	No	25	1930	2002	72		18	18
Continuity	Connie Willis	Yes	31	1924	1992	68	2		2
Director	Val Guest	Yes	43	11 Dec 1911	10 May 2006	94	30		30
Director of Photography	Walter Harvey BSc	Yes	52	9 Feb 1903	1979	75	35		35
Dubbing Editor	Dino di Campo	Yes	34	5 May 1920	2005	84	1		1
Editor	Bill Lenny	Yes	27	1928	2002	74	10	4	14
Focus Puller	Harry Oakes	No	34	16 Jan 1921	11 Dec 2012	91	3	56	59
Hairdresser	Monica Hustler	Yes	27	21 Nov 1926		98	18		18
Make-up	Phil Leakey	Yes	46	4 May 1908	26 Nov 1992	84	50		50
Music Composer	Doreen Carwithen	Yes	32	15 Nov 1922	5 Jan 2003	80	3		3
Musical Director	John Hollingsworth	Yes	38	20 Mar 1916	29 Dec 1963	47	37	3	40
Producer	Michael Carreras	Yes	27	21 Dec 1927	19 Apr 1994	66	98	11	109
Production Manager	Jimmy Sangster	Yes	27	2 Dec 1927	19 Aug 2011	83	66	2	68
Screenplay	Val Guest	Yes	43	11 Dec 1911	10 May 2006	94	30		30
Second Assistant Director	Aida Young	No	34	11 Aug 1920	12 Aug 2007	87	8	6	14
Second Assistant Editor	Michael Hart	No						2	2
Sound Camera Operator	Don Alton	No	41	1914	18 Jan 1987	73		9	9
Sound Maintenance	J. Woodiwiss	No	45	14 Jun 1909	1987	77		6	6
Sound Recording	H.C. Pearson	Yes	47	17 Aug 1907	May 2002	94	3		3
Sound Recording	Ken Cameron	Yes	39	1 Dec 1915	8 Aug 2000	84	8	2	10
Still Photographer	John Jay	No	34	14 Nov 1920	29 Apr 2005	84	13	22	35
Third Assistant Director	David Guest	No						1	1
Wardrobe Mistress	Molly Arbuthnot	Yes	46	19 Dec 1908	31 Oct 2001	92	48	5	53
CAST
1st Russian	Andre Mikhelson	Yes	52	1903			1	1	2
2nd Russian	Stanley Zevic	Yes					1		1
3rd Russian	Marne Maitland	Yes	40	18 Dec 1914	Mar 1992	77	9		9
Baron Keller	Marius Goring	Yes	42	23 May 1912	30 Sep 1998	86	3		3
Bert	Arthur Lovegrove	Yes	41	15 Jul 1913	7 Nov 1981	68	3	6	9
Butler	Derek Prentice	Yes	50	29 Mar 1904	19 Apr 1977	73	1		1
Dusty	Reginald Beckwith	Yes	46	2 Nov 1908	26 Jun 1965	56	6		6
Emile	Eric Pohlmann	Yes	41	18 Jul 1913	25 Jul 1979	66	7		7
Farquarson	Fred Johnson	Yes	55	6 Aug 1899	4 Dec 1971	72	6	2	8
Franz	Guido Lorraine	Yes	42	2 Sep 1912	31 Dec 2009	97	1		1
Hobart	Guy Middleton	Yes	48	14 Dec 1906	30 Jul 1973	66	2		2
Kudnic	Arnold Marle	Yes	67	15 Sep 1887	21 Feb 1970	82	4		4
Lisa	Eva Bartok	Yes	27	18 Jun 1927	1 Aug 1998	71	2		2
Patchway	David King-Wood	Yes	41	12 Sep 1913	3 Sep 2003	89	4		4
Skip Morgan	Forrest Tucker	Yes	36	12 Feb 1919	25 Oct 1986	67	2		2

Original Poster

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Footnotes

Forrest Tucker moved on to sci-fi/fantasy after this film, appearing in The Trollenberg Terror (1956), The Abominable Snowman (for Hammer, 1957) and The Strange World of Planet X (1957).

Elderly actor Arnold Marle had already worked for Hammer in The Glass Cage (1954). He had more substantial roles for them as the Lhama in The Abominable Snowman (1957) and as Anton Diffring’s non-rejuvenating partner in The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)

Triumph TR2

Hammer Graveyard features the Triumph TR2 used in the film

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