A knockabout crime comedy, in which, in order to enhance his reputation, a struggling journalist cooks up a hare-brained scheme to make it look as though he has murdered his sister – for just long enough to get a big story out of it. Unfortunately, however, things start to go badly wrong when a gang of real crooks appear on the scene!
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Production Details
A Hammer Film production released by Exclusive Films
United Programmes Sound
From the play by Major Campbell Christie and Miss Dorothy Campbell Christie
Black & White 65 minutes
Filming Began: November 1949
UK Release: 21st August 1950
Studio:
Oakley Court Hotel, Oakley Green, Windsor, Berkshire
Stills from film
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Cast & Crew
Red = Uncredited
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Hidden | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Hammer Uncredited | Total Hammer |
Art Department | Michael Lyons | 10 | 10 | ||||||
Art Department | Tom Money | 33 | 1 Jan 1917 | 1 Jan 1974 | 57 | 2 | 20 | 22 | |
Art Director | Denis Wreford | 45 | 1 Jan 1905 | 1 Jan 1988 | 83 | 5 | 5 | ||
Assistant Director | Jimmy Sangster | 22 | 2 Dec 1927 | 19 Aug 2011 | 83 | 65 | 2 | 67 | |
Boom Operator | Percy Britten | 30 | 1 Oct 1919 | 1 Jan 1996 | 76 | 21 | 21 | ||
Camera Operator | Peter Bryan | 30 | 28 Sep 1919 | 1 Sep 1972 | 52 | 22 | 22 | ||
Casting | Prudence Sykes | 11 | 2 | 13 | |||||
Clapper Loader | Harry Oakes | 29 | 16 Jan 1921 | 11 Dec 2012 | 91 | 53 | 53 | ||
Continuity | Renee Glynne | 24 | 3 Aug 1926 | 6 Apr 2022 | 95 | 38 | 3 | 41 | |
Director | Francis Searle | 41 | 14 Mar 1909 | 31 Jul 2002 | 93 | 17 | 17 | ||
Director of Photography | Walter Harvey BSc | 47 | 9 Feb 1903 | 1 Jan 1979 | 75 | 34 | 34 | ||
Editor | Ray Pitt | 5 | 3 | 8 | |||||
Editor | John Ferris | 7 | 7 | ||||||
Electrician | Jack Curtis | 3 | 23 | 26 | |||||
Hair Stylist | Monica Hustler | 24 | 21 Nov 1927 | 21.11.1927 | 96 | 18 | 18 | ||
Make-up | Phil Leakey | 42 | 4 May 1908 | 26 Nov 1992 | 84 | 48 | 48 | ||
Musical Director | Frank Spencer | 39 | 19 Jun 1911 | 1 Feb 1975 | 63 | 21 | 1 | 22 | |
Producer | Anthony Hinds | 27 | 18 Sep 1922 | 30 Sep 2013 | 91 | 84 | 1 | 85 | |
Production Manager | Arthur Barnes | 64 | 1 Jan 1886 | 1 Jan 1956 | 70 | 20 | 20 | ||
Recordist | Edgar Vetter | 37 | 27 Jan 1913 | 15 Dec 1988 | 75 | 15 | 15 | ||
Screenplay | A.R. Rawlinson | 56 | 9 Aug 1894 | 20 Apr 1984 | 89 | 4 | 4 | ||
Sound Mixer | Gordon Everett | 27 | 1 Jan 1923 | 1 Jan 1991 | 68 | 5 | 5 | ||
Still Photographer | John Jay | 29 | 14 Nov 1920 | 29 Apr 2005 | 84 | 13 | 22 | 35 | |
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Hidden | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Hammer Uncredited | Total Hammer |
Bill | Hugh Latimer | 37 | 12 May 1913 | 12 Jun 2006 | 93 | 3 | 3 | ||
Inspector Spedding | Campbell Singer | 41 | 16 Mar 1909 | 16 Feb 1976 | 66 | 5 | 5 | ||
Kapel | Garry Marsh | 48 | 21 May 1902 | 6 Mar 1981 | 78 | 1 | 1 | ||
Police Constable O'Brien | John Kelly | 46 | 1 Jan 1904 | 19 May 1977 | 73 | 2 | 2 | ||
Price | Danny Green | 47 | 26 May 1903 | 1 Jan 1973 | 69 | 4 | 4 | ||
Ronnie | Michael Medwin | 27 | 18 Jul 1923 | 26 Feb 2020 | 96 | 6 | 6 | ||
Sally | Yvonne Owen | 27 | 28 Jul 1923 | 1 Dec 1990 | 67 | 1 | 1 |