Contract killer Shatter successfully carries out the murder of an African leader, then flies to Hong Kong to collect his payment for the job. There, he finds that Washington employers are disowning him and now he himself becomes the target of several attempts on his life. He must destroy his enemies before they kill him!
Production Details
A Hammer production
Copyright MCMLXXIV Hammer Film Productions Limited – All rights reserved
MPAA Approved Certificate No. 23821
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
Made entirely on location in Hong Kong
Colour 90 mins
Filming Began: 17th December 1973
UK Release: 1st September 1977
Studio:
Shaw Brothers Studios Hong Kong
Location:
Hong Kong
Stills from film
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Cast & Crew
Cast & Crew – Verified complete
Red = Uncredited
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
Art Director | Johnson Tsau | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Assistant Director | Godfrey Ho | 29 | 1948 | 01.01.1948 | 76 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Assistant Editor | Denis Whitehouse | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
Assistant Sound Editor | Ian MacGregor-Scott | 27 | 11 Dec 1949 | 11.12.1949 | 74 | 4 | 4 | ||
Assistant to Producer | Christopher Carreras | 27 | 1950 | 01.01.1950 | 74 | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
Boom Operator | Tommy Staples | 1983 | 2 | 2 | |||||
Camera Operator | Roy Ford | 42 | 1935 | 10 Dec 2008 | 73 | 5 | 5 | ||
Composer | David Lindup | 49 | 10 May 1928 | 7 Jan 1992 | 63 | 6 | 6 | ||
Continuity | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/renee-glynne/# | 51 | 3 Aug 1926 | 6 Apr 2022 | 95 | 41 | 3 | 44 | |
Director | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/michael-carreras/# | 49 | 21 Dec 1927 | 19 Apr 1994 | 66 | 98 | 98 | 98 | |
Director - fired after 66% of filming | Monte Hellman | 48 | 12 Jul 1929 | 20 Apr 2021 | 91 | 1 | 1 | ||
Director of Photography | John Wilcox BSc | 72 | 7 May 1905 | 31 May 1979 | 74 | 6 | 1 | 7 | |
Director of Photography | Roy Ford | 42 | 1935 | 10 Dec 2008 | 73 | 5 | 5 | ||
Director of Photography | Brian Probyn BSc | 56 | 30 Nov 1920 | 25 Nov 1982 | 61 | 6 | 6 | ||
Dubbing Mixer | Dennis Whitlock | 49 | 1928 | 2008 | 80 | 13 | 1 | 14 | |
Editor | Eric Boyd-Perkins | 60 | 1917 | 4 Dec 2014 | 97 | 10 | 10 | ||
Focus | Keith Jones | 10 May 2010 | 3 | 3 | |||||
Musical Supervisor | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/philip-martell/# | 69 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 104 | 1 | 105 | |
Producer | Vee King Shaw | 33 | 25 Jun 1944 | 13 Jul 2017 | 73 | 2 | 2 | ||
Producer | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/michael-carreras/# | 49 | 21 Dec 1927 | 19 Apr 1994 | 66 | 98 | 98 | 98 | |
Production Manager | Chua Lam | 36 | 1941 | 01.01.1941 | 83 | 2 | 2 | ||
Production Secretary | Jean Walter | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Screenplay | Don Houghton | 47 | 2 Feb 1930 | 2 Jul 1991 | 61 | 20 | 20 | ||
Sound Editor | James Groom | 52 | 1925 | 17 May 2016 | 91 | 13 | 2 | 15 | |
Sound Editor | Vernon Messenger | 49 | 1928 | 01.01.1928 | 96 | 2 | 2 | ||
Sound Maintenance | Dan Grimmel | 62 | 25 Jun 1915 | 1985 | 69 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
Sound Recordist | Les Hammond | 69 | 6 Jun 1908 | 8 | 8 | ||||
Special Effects | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/les-bowie/# | 63 | 10 Nov 1913 | 27 Jan 1979 | 65 | 30 | 13 | 43 | |
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer | |
Asabi MGoya/Dabula MGoya | Yemi Ajibade | 48 | 28 Jul 1929 | 24 Jan 2013 | 83 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
First Bodyguard | Liu Chia Yung | 33 | 1944 | 01.01.1944 | 80 | 2 | 2 | ||
Hans Leber | Anton Diffring | 60 | 20 Oct 1916 | 19 May 1989 | 72 | 3 | 3 | ||
Hans Lebers bodyguard | Fat Tsui | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Hans Lebers bodyguard | Mei Wong | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Howe | Lo Wai | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Japanese Boxer | Kao Hsiung | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Korean Boxer | Chiang Han | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Lebers Girl | Liu Ya Ying | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Mai Ling | Lily Li | 27 | 14 Jun 1950 | 14.06.1950 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||
Rattwood (Guest Star) | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/peter-cushing/# | 64 | 26 May 1913 | 11 Aug 1994 | 81 | 24 | 1 | 25 | |
Rattwoods thug extra | Shu-Tong Wong | 33 | 1944 | 10 Apr 2021 | 77 | 1 | 1 | ||
Referee Hanson Lee | Hoi-Sang Lee | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Second Bodyguard | Huang Pei-Chi | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Shatter | Stuart Whitman | 49 | 1 Feb 1928 | 16 Mar 2020 | 92 | 1 | 1 | ||
Tai Pah | Ti Lung | 31 | 19 Aug 1946 | 19.08.1946 | 78 | 1 | 1 | ||
Tais kung fu student extra | Hark-On Fung | 28 | 12 Sep 1948 | 2 Mar 2016 | 67 | 1 | 1 | ||
Thai Boxer | James Ma | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Thug / Killer w. Bazooka (as Pak-Chan Yeung) | Po-Chen Yang | 2 | 2 | ||||||
With | Gwa-Pau Sai | 58 | 7 Oct 1918 | 12 Mar 2001 | 82 | 1 | 1 | ||
With | Bao-Hsing Ho | 1 | 1 | ||||||
With | Chi-Chang Ho | 2 | 2 | ||||||
With | Chi-Keung Wong | 1 | 1 | ||||||
With | Chiang Chen | 1 | 1 | ||||||
With | Chiang Lo | 1 | 1 | ||||||
With | Chih-Ping Chiang | 1 | 1 | ||||||
With | Chok-Chow Cheung | 1 | 1 | ||||||
With | Chuen Chiang | 1 | 1 | ||||||
With | Heng Li | 1 | 1 | ||||||
With | Hsia Hsu | 2 | 2 | ||||||
With | Hsin Chen | 1 | 1 | ||||||
With | Hung Lu | 1 | 1 | ||||||
With | Jack Long | 2 | 2 | ||||||
With | Kwok-Kuen Chan | 1 | 1 | ||||||
With | Ming-Wai Chan | 1 | 1 | ||||||
With | Shun-Yee Yuen | 1 | 1 | ||||||
With | Te-Chaing Teng | 2 | 2 | ||||||
With | Ti-Ko Chen | 1 | 1 | ||||||
With | Tsai-Pao Tung | 1 | 1 | ||||||
With | Tung Ting | 1 | 1 | ||||||
With | Yi-Hsiung Chi | 1 | 1 | ||||||
With | Yuan-Shun Wu | 1 | 1 | ||||||
With | Shi-Kwan Yen | 30 | 1 Jan 1947 | 01.01.1947 | 77 | 1 | 1 |
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Footnotes
More Kung Fu action, made back to back with The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires. This film suffers badly from the fact that there is not one pleasant character in it, therefore leaving the audience with no one at all with whom to sympathise. Anyway, for whatever reason, the film was deemed so dire that it received no cinema release at all and would have remained unseen had it not been for the occasional airing on television.
Stuart Whitman’s films include Michael Curtiz’s The Comancheros (1961, with John Wayne), An American Dream (1966, aka See You in Hell, Darling, with Susan Denberg of Frankenstein Created Woman fame) and Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines (1965).
One person deserves a special mention here, this being the last Hammer film to be worked on by continuity lady Renee Glynne, whose credits for the Company go back to the late 1940’s.
The Art Director’s credit seems incomplete and is probably supposed to read ‘Johnson Tsau’.
Michael Carreras had a Hitchcock-like cameo and can be seen buying a drink at the bar of the hotel at there top of the film.