Bookshop manager John Harman lands in trouble when, while working late at night with one of the shop assistants, Ruby, her blouse is accidentally torn on a filing cabinet. Ruby is talked into making more of the incident by the caddish Jeff Hart and attempts to blackmail her boss. But things go terribly wrong when Ruby is killed by Hart, and John, now suspected of the murder, goes on the run…
Production Details
A Hammer production released by Exclusive Films (UK) and Lippert Films (USA)
From the play “Last Page” by James Hadley Chase
All characters in this photoplay are fictitious and bear no resemblance to any real person, living or dead
RCA Sound System
Royal Philarmonic Orchestra
Black & White 84 minutes
Filming Began: 1st June 1951
UK Release: 19th May 1952
Studio:
Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire
Stills from film
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Cast & Crew
Cast – Complete, awaiting verification
Red = Uncredited
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer |
Art Director | Andrew Mazzei | 64 | 2 Aug 1887 | 6 Aug 1975 | 88 | 2 | 2 | |
Assistant Director | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/jimmy-sangster/# | 24 | 2 Dec 1927 | 19 Aug 2011 | 83 | 66 | 2 | 68 |
Boom Operator | Percy Britten | 32 | 1 Oct 1919 | 1996 | 76 | 23 | 23 | |
Camera Operator | Peter Bryan | 32 | 28 Sep 1919 | Sep 1972 | 52 | 28 | 28 | |
Casting Director | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/michael-carreras/# | 24 | 21 Dec 1927 | 19 Apr 1994 | 66 | 98 | 9 | 107 |
Clapper Loader | Tom Friswell | 22 | 1930 | 2002 | 72 | 18 | 18 | |
Continuity | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/renee-glynne/# | 25 | 3 Aug 1926 | 6 Apr 2022 | 95 | 41 | 3 | 44 |
Director | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/terence-fisher/# | 48 | 23 Feb 1904 | 18 Jun 1980 | 76 | 31 | 31 | |
Director of Photography | Walter Harvey BSc | 49 | 9 Feb 1903 | 1979 | 75 | 35 | 35 | |
Editor | Maurice Rootes | 35 | 12 Apr 1917 | 17 Jun 1997 | 80 | 8 | 8 | |
Focus Puller | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/harry-oakes/# | 31 | 16 Jan 1921 | 11 Dec 2012 | 91 | 3 | 56 | 59 |
Hair Stylist | Anne Box | 5 | 5 | |||||
Make-up | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/phil-leakey/# | 44 | 4 May 1908 | 26 Nov 1992 | 84 | 50 | 50 | |
Musical Director | Frank Spencer | 40 | 19 Jun 1911 | Feb 1975 | 63 | 22 | 1 | 23 |
Producer | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/anthony-hinds/# | 29 | 18 Sep 1922 | 30 Sep 2013 | 91 | 87 | 3 | 90 |
Production Manager | Arthur Barnes | 66 | 1886 | 1956 | 70 | 20 | 20 | |
Recordist | Bill Salter | 1983 | 17 | 17 | ||||
Screenplay | Frederick Knott | 35 | 28 Aug 1916 | 17 Dec 2002 | 86 | 1 | 1 | |
Sound Camera Operator | Gordon Everett | 29 | 18 Mar 1923 | 9 Jun 1991 | 68 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
Wardrobe | Joy Curtis | 1 | 1 | |||||
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer |
Bank Clerk | Sybil Saxon | 1 | 1 | |||||
Blue Club Barman | Martin Lyder | 29 | 30 Sep 1922 | 12 Jan 2003 | 80 | 4 | 4 | |
Blue Club Patron | Pat Ryan | 36 | 1916 | 1992 | 76 | 6 | 6 | |
Bookshop Customer | Charles Hammond | 6 | 6 | |||||
Clive | Raymond Huntley | 48 | 23 Apr 1904 | 15 Jun 1990 | 86 | 3 | 3 | |
Elderly Customer | Lawrence O’Madden | 47 | 1905 | 1972 | 67 | 1 | 1 | |
Inspector Dale | Meredith Edwards | 34 | 10 Jun 1917 | 8 Feb 1999 | 81 | 3 | 3 | |
Jeff Hart | Peter Reynolds | 30 | 16 Aug 1921 | 21 Apr 1975 | 53 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Joe | Harry Fowler | 25 | 10 Dec 1926 | 4 Jan 2012 | 85 | 3 | 3 | |
John Harman | George Brent | 48 | 15 Mar 1904 | 26 May 1979 | 75 | 1 | 1 | |
Lang | Lawrence Ward | 23 | 15 Jan 1929 | 17 Apr 2011 | 82 | 1 | 1 | |
Mary | Eleanor Bryan | 25 | 1927 | 6 Jan 2019 | 92 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
May Harman | Isabel Dean | 33 | 29 May 1918 | 27 Jul 1997 | 79 | 1 | 1 | |
Miss Rosetti | Nelly Arno | 59 | 15 Jul 1892 | Sep 1966 | 74 | 1 | 1 | |
Mr Bruce | Leslie Weston | 55 | 24 Jul 1896 | 13 Oct 1975 | 79 | 1 | 1 | |
Mr Quince | David Keir | 68 | 7 Feb 1884 | 30 Oct 1971 | 87 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
P.C. Gibbons | Archie Duncan | 37 | 26 May 1914 | 24 Jul 1979 | 65 | 2 | 2 | |
Receptionist | Jack Faint | 1 | 1 | |||||
Ruby | Diana Dors | 20 | 23 Oct 1931 | 4 May 1984 | 52 | 3 | 3 | |
Second Customer | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/ian-wilson/# | 50 | 2 Jul 1901 | Dec 1987 | 86 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
Stella | Marguerite Chapman | 34 | 9 Mar 1918 | 31 Aug 1999 | 81 | 1 | 1 | |
The Tobacconist | John Mann | 1 | 1 | |||||
Tobacconist Customer | Victor Hagan | 61 | 13 Jul 1890 | 26 Feb 1977 | 86 | 2 | 2 | |
Todd | Conrad Phillips | 27 | 13 Apr 1925 | 13 Jan 2016 | 90 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
Vi | Eleanor Summerfield | 31 | 7 Mar 1921 | 13 Jul 2001 | 80 | 3 | 3 | |
Vis Date | Jim O’Brady | 45 | 13 May 1907 | 1 Jan 1991 | 83 | 18 | 18 | |
Waiter | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/harold-goodwin/# | 34 | 22 Oct 1917 | 3 Jun 2004 | 86 | 4 | 3 | 7 |
Woman Customer | Courtney Hope | 65 | 19 Dec 1886 | 17 Jan 1975 | 88 | 4 | 4 |
Original Poster
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Footnotes
Terance Fisher, Hammer’s most highly regarded Director, makes his debut with the Company here.
With the support of Lippert, Hammer now began to bring over established Hollywood stars to boost the appeal of their films in the US. George Brent, who was in fact a British subject, was the first of these. He had appeared in the classic musical 42nd Street (1933), as well as in The Rich Are Always With Us (1932) and Dark Victory (1939). His co-star in the latter two was Bette Davis, who herself would later work for Hammer in The Nanny (1965) and The Anniversary (1968).