Opening title:- “Fort Kandahar. A British outpost on the North West Frontier of India 1850”. Lieutenant Case, hated by his army colleagues for being a half-caste, is convicted on a trumped-up charge of cowardice in the face of the enemy. He is dishonourably discharged and sentenced to ten years imprisonment, but manages to escape and, vowing revenge, he makes for the hills to join the rebel forces of Eli Khan…..
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Production Details
A Hammer Film production released by Columbia Pictures
Copyright MCMLXV Hammer Film Productions Ltd. – All rights reserved
MPAA Approved Certificate
The characters and incidents portrayed and the names used herein are fictitious and any similarity to the name, character, or history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional
RCA Sound System
Made at the Elstree Studios of Associated British Picture Corporation, Herts, England
Hammerscope
Technicolor 81 mins
Filming Began: 16th October 1964
UK Release: 9th August 1965
Studio:
Elstree Studios of Associated British Picture Corporation, Hertfordshire
Stills from film
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Cast & Crew
Red = Uncredited
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Hidden | Death | Age | Hammer Credited | Hammer Uncredited | Total Hammer |
Art Director | Don Mingaye | 36 | 1 Jan 1929 | 8 Nov 2017 | 88 | 26 | 14 | 40 | |
Assistant Boom Operator | Peter Margrave | 7 | 7 | ||||||
Assistant Director | Frank Nesbitt | 33 | 27 Jun 1932 | 15 Apr 2007 | 74 | 1 | 1 | ||
Boom Operator | Harry Fairbairn | 34 | 5 Jul 1931 | 5.07.1931 | 92 | 4 | 4 | ||
Camera Operator | Harry Gillam | 26 Apr 1990 | 3 | 3 | |||||
Continuity | Pauline Harlow (Wise) | 27 | 01 Jan 1938 | 01.01.1938 | 86 | 11 | 3 | 14 | |
Director | John Gilling | 53 | 29 May 1912 | 22 Nov 1984 | 72 | 21 | 21 | ||
Director of Photography | Reginald Wyer BSc | 63 | 30 Oct 1901 | 1 Jan 1970 | 68 | 1 | 1 | ||
Editor | Tom Simpson | 6 | 6 | ||||||
Fight Arranger | Peter Diamond | 35 | 10 Aug 1929 | 27 Mar 2004 | 74 | 4 | 23 | 27 | |
Focus Puller | Harry Oakes | 44 | 16 Jan 1921 | 11 Dec 2012 | 91 | 53 | 53 | ||
Hair Stylist | Frieda Steiger | 61 | 29 Dec 1903 | 19 Aug 1993 | 89 | 28 | 28 | ||
Make-up | Richard Mills | 3 | 4 | 7 | |||||
Make-up | Roy Ashton | 56 | 16 Apr 1909 | 10 Jan 1995 | 85 | 36 | 4 | 40 | |
Music Composer | Don Banks | 41 | 25 Oct 1923 | 5 Sep 1980 | 56 | 9 | 9 | ||
Musical Supervisor | Philip Martell | 57 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 104 | 1 | 105 | |
Original Story and Screenplay | John Gilling | 53 | 29 May 1912 | 22 Nov 1984 | 72 | 21 | 21 | ||
Painter | Michael Finlay | 17 | 23 Apr 1948 | 23.04.1948 | 76 | 19 | 19 | ||
Producer | Anthony Nelson-Keys | 53 | 13 Nov 1911 | 19 Mar 1985 | 73 | 41 | 41 | ||
Production Designer | Bernard Robinson | 53 | 28 Jul 1912 | 2 Mar 1970 | 57 | 46 | 3 | 49 | |
Production Manager | Don Weeks | 60 | 15 Nov 1904 | 1 Mar 1988 | 83 | 30 | 30 | ||
Recording Supervisor | A.W. Lumkin | 52 | 1 Feb 1913 | 25 Oct 1985 | 72 | 30 | 30 | ||
Sound Editor | Roy Hyde | 45 | 15 Feb 1920 | 28 Jun 1985 | 65 | 30 | 1 | 31 | |
Sound Recordist | Simon Kaye | 30 | 22 Jul 1935 | 22.07.1935 | 88 | 1 | 1 | ||
Special Effects | Sid Pearson | 9 | 1 | 10 | |||||
Supervising Editor | James Needs | 45 | 17 Oct 1919 | 4 Feb 2003 | 83 | 110 | 1 | 111 | |
Wardrobe Mistress | Rosemary Burrows | 36 | 5 | 41 | |||||
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Hidden | Death | Age | Hammer Credited | Hammer Uncredited | Total Hammer |
2nd Lt Baldwin | John Southworth | 35 | 8 Nov 1929 | 22 Aug 2004 | 74 | 2 | 2 | ||
2nd Lt Crowe | Henry Davies | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Captain Boyd | Inigo Jackson | 32 | 19 Jul 1933 | 25 Aug 2001 | 68 | 3 | 3 | ||
Captain Connelly | Jeremy Burnham | 34 | 28 May 1931 | 31 Dec 2020 | 89 | 6 | 6 | ||
Colonel Drewe | Duncan Lamont | 47 | 17 Jun 1918 | 19 Dec 1978 | 60 | 7 | 7 | ||
Colour Sergeant | Joe Powell | 43 | 21 Mar 1922 | 30 Jun 2016 | 94 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
Eli Khan | Oliver Reed | 27 | 13 Feb 1938 | 2 May 1999 | 61 | 8 | 1 | 9 | |
Elsa | Catherine Woodville | 27 | 12 Mar 1938 | 5 Jun 2013 | 75 | 1 | 1 | ||
Hitala | Walter Brown | 38 | 9 Feb 1927 | 31 Oct 2013 | 86 | 2 | 2 | ||
Lieutenant Case | Ronald Lewis | 36 | 11 Dec 1928 | 11 Jan 1982 | 53 | 3 | 3 | ||
Marriott | Glyn Houston | 39 | 25 Oct 1925 | 30 Jun 2019 | 93 | 2 | 2 | ||
Nasty Jailer | John Maxim | 40 | 20 Jul 1925 | 20 Jan 1990 | 64 | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
Ratina | Yvonne Romain | 27 | 17 Feb 1938 | 17.02.1938 | 86 | 3 | 3 | ||
Rattu | Sean Lynch | 31 | 1 Jan 1934 | 1 Jan 1979 | 45 | 1 | 1 | ||
Serving Maid | Caron Gardner | 24 | 9 Jan 1941 | 9.01.1941 | 83 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
Soldier in Shoot-out | James Payne | 5 | 5 |
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Footnotes
John Gilling’s directorial work for Hammer is listed in the footnotes for The Pirates of Blood River. Elsewhere, he directed numerous other films, including The Gamma People (1955), The Flesh and the Fiends (1959, with Peter Cushing), Shadow of the Cat (1961) and The Night Caller (1965).
Character actor Duncan Lamont made several appearances for Hammer in the 1960s, also turning up in The Scarlet Blade (1963), The Devil-Ship Pirates (1963), The Evil of Frankenstein (1964), The Witches (1966), Frankenstein Created Woman (1966) and Quatermass and the Pit (1967).