Don’t Panic Chaps

During World War II, a pair of observation teams, German and British, are left on a remote Adriatic island, then forgotten. The two sides call a truce and live harmoniously; that is until beautiful Elsa is cast ashore and war breaks out anew.

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Production Details

Hammer A.C.T Films
MPAA Approved Certificate No. 19389
Copyright Hammer A.C.T. Films All rights reserved

Adapted from the original radio play by Ronald George Holroyd and Michael George Corston

Western Electric Recording
A Hammerscope Production
RCA Sound Recording
Black & White 85 minutes

Filming dates: 15th June 1959

UK Release: 21st December 1959

Studio:
Walton Studios, Walton on Thames, Surrey

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Cast & Crew

Red = Uncredited

CREW	NAME	AGE AT RELEASE	BIRTH	Hidden	DEATH	AGE	CREDITS	UNCREDITED	TOTAL HAMMER
Adapted from radio	Michael Corston	27	14 Jul 1932			92	1		1
Adapted from radio	Ronald Holroyd	26	1933	1 Jan 1933		92	1		1
Art Director	Scott MacGregor	45	22 Oct 1914		1971	56	15	1	16
Assistant Director	Douglas Hermes	36	28 Jun 1923		1981	57	6		6
Camera Operator	Eric Besche	45	20 May 1914		17 Apr 1983	68	2		2
Continuity	Beryl Booth	36	18 Dec 1923		2015	91	2		2
Director	George Pollock	52	27 Mar 1907		22 Dec 1979	72	1		1
Editor	Harry Aldous						1		1
Hairdresser	Joyce James						2		2
Lighting Camerman	Arthur Graham	45	12 Mar 1914		Dec 2006	92	1		1
Make-up	Peter Armston	43	23 Mar 1916		10 May 1984	68	1		1
Music Composed & Conducted by	Philip Green	48	18 Jul 1911		6 Oct 1982	71	1	1	2
Producer	Teddy Baird	58	9 Sep 1901		23 Mar 1975	73	1		1
Production Manager	Clifford Parkes	31	10 Jul 1928		20.11.2014	87	12		12
Production Supervisor	Ralph Bond	55	5 Dec 1904		29 Aug 1989	84	1		1
Screenplay	Jack Davies	46	25 Nov 1913		22 Jun 1994	80	3		3
Second Assistant Director	*Joe Marks	30	6 Feb 1929		20 Oct 2019	90		6	6
Sound Recordist	Sid Wiles	60	2 Feb 1899		Jul 1973	74	6		6
Wardrobe Mistress	Maude Churchill						3		3
Producer	Michael Carreras	31	21 Dec 1927		19 Apr 1994	66	84	8	92
Production Designer	Bernard Robinson	47	28 Jul 1912		2 Mar 1970	57	45	4	49
Production Manager	Don Weeks	55	15 Nov 1904		Mar 1988	83	30		30
Property Buyer	*Eric Hillier	39	1920		1975	55		17	17
Property Master	*Tom Money	42	1917		1974	57	2	21	23
Screenplay	Jimmy Sangster	31	2 Dec 1927		19 Aug 2011	83	65	2	67
Second Assistant Director	*Tom Walls	47	31 May 1912		28 Nov 1992	80	1	10	11
Sound Recordist	Jock May	54	1905		8 Jan 1991	86	30	1	31
Studio Manager	*Arthur Kelly							4	4
Supervising Editor	James Needs	40	17 Oct 1919		4 Feb 2003	83	110	1	111
Third Assistant Director	*Hugh Harlow	20	17 Jun 1939	17.06.1939		125	5	33	38
Wardrobe	Molly Arbuthnot	50	19 Dec 1908		31 Oct 2001	92	48	5	53
CHARACTERS
Ackroyd	Harry Fowler	33	10 Dec 1926		4 Jan 2012	85	3		3
Babbington	Terence Alexander	36	11 Mar 1923		28 May 2009	86	2		2
Bolter	Percy Herbert	39	31 Jul 1920		6 Dec 1992	72	6		6
Brown	Thorley Walters	46	12 May 1913		6 Jul 1991	78	6		6
Elsa	Nadja Regin	28	2 Dec 1931		6 Apr 2019	87	1		1
Finch	George Cole	34	22 Apr 1925		5 Aug 2015	90	2		2
Krisling	Dennis Price	44	23 Jun 1915		6 Oct 1973	58	5		5
Meister	George Murcell	34	30 Oct 1925		3 Dec 1998	73	1	1	2
Mortimer	Nicholas Phipps	46	23 Jun 1913		11 Apr 1980	66	2		2
Schmidt	Gertan Klauber	27	5 Mar 1932		1 Aug 2008	76	1		1
Voss	Thomas Foulkes						1		1

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Footnotes

Originally called Carry On Chaps, the title was changed following the success of the “Carry On” series.

Terence Alexander was best known for his role as Charlie Hungerford in the BBC TV drama Bergerac, which ran for nine series from 1981.

Harry Fowler, a prolific character actor, is known for The Pickwick Papers (1952), Hue and Cry (1947) and Went the Day Well? (1942). His first wife, actress Joan Dowling, took her own life by gas poisoning at the age of 26.

1959 BBFC Cert. “U”

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