Shatter – 1974

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
Storyline
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!
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Crew
Function | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits |
Art Director | Johnson Tsau | 1983 | 2 | |||
Assistant Director | Godfrey Ho | 26 | 1948 | Living | 73 | 1 |
Assistant Editor | Denis Whitehouse | 1 | ||||
Assistant to the Producer | Christopher Carreras | 24 | 1 Jan 1950 | Living | 70 | 2 |
Boom Operator | Tommy Staples | 1983 | 2 | |||
Camera Operator | Roy Ford | 39 | 1935 | 10 Dec 2008 | 73 | 5 |
Composer | David Lindup | 45 | 10 May 1928 | 7 Jan 1992 | 63 | 6 |
Continuity | Renee Glynne | 47 | 3 Aug 1926 | Living | 94 | 38 |
Directed by | Michael Carreras | 46 | 21 Dec 1927 | 19 Apr 1994 | 66 | 83 |
Director of Photography | Brian Probyn, BSc | 53 | 30 Nov 1920 | 25 Nov 1982 | 61 | 6 |
Director of Photography | John Wilcox, BSc | 68 | 7 May 1905 | 21 May 1979 | 74 | 6 |
Director of Photography | Roy Ford | 39 | 1935 | 10 Dec 2008 | 73 | 5 |
Dubbing Mixer | Dennis Whitlock | 46 | 1928 | 2008 | 80 | 13 |
Editor | Eric Boyd-Perkins | 57 | 1917 | 4 Dec 2014 | 97 | 10 |
Focus | Keith Jones | 10 May 2010 | 3 | |||
Musical Supervisor | Philip Martell | 66 | 6 Oct 1907 | 11 Aug 1993 | 85 | 103 |
Produced by | Michael Carreras | 46 | 21 Dec 1927 | 19 Apr 1994 | 66 | 83 |
Produced by | Vee King Shaw | 29 | 25 Jun 1944 | 13 Jul 2017 | 73 | 2 |
Production Manager | Chua Lam | 33 | 1 Jan 1941 | Living | 79 | 2 |
Production Secretary | Jean Walter | 2 | ||||
Screenplay by | Don Houghton | 44 | 1930 | 1 Jul 1991 | 61 | 20 |
Sound Editor | Jim Groom | 49 | 1925 | 17 May 2016 | 91 | 9 |
Sound Editor | Vernon Messenger | 46 | 1928 | Living | 93 | 2 |
Sound Maintenance | Dan Grimmel | 58 | 26 Jun 1915 | 1985 | 69 | 2 |
Sound Recordist | Les Hammond | 65 | 1 Jun 1908 | 8 | ||
Special Effects | Les Bowie | 60 | 10 Nov 1913 | 27 Jan 1979 | 65 | 32 |
Cast
Character | Actor | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Appearances |
Asabi M'Goya/Dabula M'Goya | Yemi Ajibade | 44 | 28 Jul 1929 | 24 Jan 2013 | 83 | 1 |
First Bodyguard | Liu Ka Yong | 30 | 1944 | Living | 77 | 1 |
Hans Leber | Anton Diffring | 57 | 20 Oct 1916 | 19 May 1989 | 72 | 3 |
Howe | Lo Wei | 1 | ||||
Japanese Boxer | Kao Hsiung | 1 | ||||
Korean Boxer | Chiang Han | 1 | ||||
Leber's Girl | Liu Ya Ying | 1 | ||||
Mai Ling | Lily Li | 23 | 14 Jun 1950 | Living | 69 | 1 |
Rattwood (Guest Star) | Peter Cushing | 60 | 26 May 1913 | 11 Aug 1994 | 81 | 24 |
Second Bodyguard | Huang Pei-Chi | 1 | ||||
Shatter | Stuart Whitman | 45 | 1 Feb 1928 | 16 Mar 2020 | 92 | 1 |
Tai Pah | Ti Lung | 27 | 19 Aug 1946 | Living | 74 | 1 |
Thai Boxer | James Ma | 2 |
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’.
Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection