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 Productions
	Click a link for more info						Credited	Uncredited	Total
Art Director	Johnson Tsau						2		2
Ast. Director	Godfrey Ho	29	1 Jan 1948	01.01.1948		75	1	1	2
Ast. Editor	Denis Whitehouse						1		1
Ast. to Producer	Christopher Carreras	27	1 Jan 1950	01.01.1950		73	2	3	5
Boom Operator	Tommy Staples				1983		2		2
Camera Operator	Roy Ford	42	1 Jan 1935		10 Dec 2008	73	5		5
Composer	David Lindup	49	10 May 1928		7 Jan 1992	63	6		6
Continuity	Renee Glynne	51	3 Aug 1926		6 Apr 2022	95	38	3	41
Director	Michael Carreras	49	21 Dec 1927		19 Apr 1994	66	82	3	85
Director of Photog.	Roy Ford	42	1 Jan 1935		10 Dec 2008	73	5		5
Director of Photog.	Brian Probyn BSc	56	30 Nov 1920		25 Nov 1982	61	6		6
Director of Photog.	John Wilcox BSc	72	7 May 1905		31 May 1979	74	6	1	7
Dubbing Mixer	Dennis Whitlock	49	1928		2008	80	13	1	14
Editor	Eric Boyd-Perkins	60	1 Jan 1917		4 Dec 2014	97	10		10
Focus	Keith Jones				10 May 2010		3		3
Musical Supervisor	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	Michael Carreras	49	21 Dec 1927		19 Apr 1994	66	82	3	85
Production Manager	Chua Lam	36	1 Jan 1941	01.01.1941		82	2		2
Production Secretary	Jean Walter						2		2
Screenplay	Don Houghton	47	1930		Jul 1991	61	20		20
Sound Editor	James Groom	52	1 Jan 1925		17 May 2016	91	13	3	16
Sound Editor	Vernon Messenger	49	1 Jan 1928	01.01.1928		95	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	Les Bowie	63	10 Nov 1913		27 Jan 1979	65	32	11	43
Uncredited
Ast. Sound Editor	Ian MacGregor-Scott	27	11 Dec 1949	11.12.1949		73		3	3

Cast


Character	Actor	Age at Release	Birth		Death	Age	Hammer Productions
	Click a link for more info						Credited	Uncredited	Total
Asabi M'Goya/Dabula M'Goya	Yemi Ajibade	48	28 Jul 1929		24 Jan 2013	83	1	2	3
First Bodyguard	Liu Chia Yung	33	1 Jan 1944	01.01.1944		79	2		2
Hans Leber	Anton Diffring	60	20 Oct 1916		19 May 1989	72	3		3
Howe	Lo Wai						1		1
Japanese Boxer	Kao Hsiung						1		1
Korean Boxer	Chiang Han						1		1
Leber's Girl	Liu Ya Ying						1		1
Mai Ling	Lily Li	27	14 Jun 1950	14.06.1950		72	1		1
Rattwood (Guest Star)	Peter Cushing	64	26 May 1913		11 Aug 1994	81	24	1	25
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		76	1		1
Thai Boxer	James Ma						2		2
Uncredited
Hans Leber's bodyguard	Fat Tsui							1	1
Hans Leber's bodyguard	Mei Wong							1	1
Rattwood's Thug	Shu-Tong Wong	33	1 Jan 1944		10 Apr 2021	77		1	1
Referee Hanson Lee	Hoi-Sang Lee							2	2
Tai's Kung Fu Student	Hark-On Fung	28	12 Sep 1948		2 Mar 2016	67		1	1
Thug / Killer	Po-Chen Yang							2	2
With	Gwa-Pau Sai	58	7 Oct 1918		12 Mar 2001	82		1	1
With	Shi-Kwan Yen	30	1 Jan 1947	01.01.1947		76		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

Production


FILMING BEGAN	17 December 1973
UK RELEASE	1 September 1977
STUDIO	Shaw Brothers Studios Hong Kong, China
LOCATION	Hong Kong

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.

Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection