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 | 75 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
Ast. Editor | Denis Whitehouse | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Ast. to Producer | Christopher Carreras | 27 | 1 Jan 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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