Cash on Demand – 1961

A Hammer film production released by Columbia Pictures
Copyright MCMLXI by Woodpecker Productions Limited – All rights reserved
MPAA Approved Certificate No. 19968
The characters and incidents portrayed and the name, used herein are fictitious and any similarity to the names characters or history of any person is entirely accidental and unintentional
RCA Sound Recording
Produced at Bray Studios, England
Black & White 73 mins
Storyline
23rd December: Harry Fordyce is the aloof and autocratic manager of the Haversham branch of the City & Colonial Bank. Intensely disliked by his staff, he is nevertheless about to have to rely on their help when a bogus insurance representative turns out to be a bank robber, who threatens the lives of his wife and son if he does not do exactly as he is told…..
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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 | Don Mingaye | 34 | 1 Jan 1929 | 8 Nov 2017 | 88 | 26 | 14 | 40 | |
Associate Producer | Anthony Nelson-Keys | 52 | 13 Nov 1911 | 19 Mar 1985 | 73 | 41 | 41 | ||
Ast. Director | John Peverall | 32 | 1 Jan 1931 | 3 Oct 2009 | 78 | 21 | 21 | ||
Camera Operator | Len Harris | 47 | 19 May 1916 | 21 Feb 1995 | 78 | 52 | 1 | 53 | |
Casting | Stuart Lyons | 35 | 1 Jan 1928 | 23 Feb 1998 | 70 | 8 | 8 | ||
Continuity | Tilly Day | 60 | 1903 | 1994 | 91 | 13 | 1 | 14 | |
Director | Quentin Lawrence | 43 | 6 Nov 1920 | 9 Mar 1979 | 58 | 2 | 2 | ||
Director of Photog. | Arthur Grant BSc | 48 | 1915 | 1972 | 56 | 30 | 30 | ||
Editor | Eric Boyd-Perkins | 46 | 1 Jan 1917 | 4 Dec 2014 | 97 | 10 | 10 | ||
Executive Producer | Michael Carreras | 35 | 21 Dec 1927 | 19 Apr 1994 | 66 | 82 | 3 | 85 | |
From a play by | Jacques Gillies | 43 | 16 Mar 1920 | Apr 2009 | 89 | 1 | 1 | ||
Hair Stylist | Frieda Steiger | 59 | 29 Dec 1903 | 19 Aug 1993 | 89 | 28 | 28 | ||
Make-up Artist | Roy Ashton | 54 | 16 Apr 1909 | 10 Jan 1995 | 85 | 36 | 4 | 40 | |
Music Composer | Wilfred Josephs | 36 | 24 Jul 1927 | 17 Nov 1997 | 70 | 3 | 3 | ||
Musical Supervisor | John Hollingsworth | 47 | 20 Mar 1916 | 29 Dec 1963 | 47 | 36 | 2 | 38 | |
Production Designer | Bernard Robinson | 51 | 28 Jul 1912 | 2 Mar 1970 | 57 | 46 | 3 | 49 | |
Production Manager | Clifford Parkes | 36 | 1927 | 2014 | 87 | 12 | 12 | ||
Screenplay | David Chantler | 38 | 24 May 1925 | 13 Mar 2012 | 86 | 2 | 2 | ||
Screenplay | Lewis Greifer | 47 | 19 Dec 1915 | 18 Mar 2003 | 87 | 1 | 1 | ||
Sound Editor | Alban Streeter | 33 | 1 Jan 1930 | 93 | 7 | 7 | |||
Sound Recordist | Jock May | 58 | 1 Jan 1905 | 8 Jan 1991 | 86 | 30 | 1 | 31 | |
Supervising Editor | James Needs | 44 | 17 Oct 1919 | 4 Feb 2003 | 83 | 110 | 1 | 111 | |
Wardrobe Mistress | Rosemary Burrows | 36 | 5 | 41 | |||||
Wardrobe Supervisor | Molly Arbuthnot | 54 | 19 Dec 1908 | 31 Oct 2001 | 92 | 48 | 4 | 52 | |
Uncredited | |||||||||
Clapper Loader | Alan McDonald | 25 | 1938 | 85 | 14 | 14 | |||
Construction Manager | Arthur Banks | 18 | 29 | 47 | |||||
Focus Puller | Harry Oakes | 42 | 16 Jan 1921 | 11 Dec 2012 | 91 | 53 | 53 | ||
Still Photog. | Tom Edwards | 1999 | 26 | 26 |
Cast
Character | Actor | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
Click a link for more info | Credited | Uncredited | Total | ||||||
Collins | Charles Morgan | 54 | 21 Jul 1909 | May 1994 | 84 | 2 | 2 | ||
Detective Constable | Alan Haywood | 34 | 30 Nov 1929 | 6 Mar 1995 | 65 | 1 | 1 | ||
Fordyce | Peter Cushing | 50 | 26 May 1913 | 11 Aug 1994 | 81 | 24 | 1 | 25 | |
Gore-Hepburn | Andre Morell | 54 | 20 Aug 1909 | 28 Nov 1978 | 69 | 9 | 9 | ||
Harvill | Barry Lowe | 38 | 1 Jan 1925 | 12 Dec 2011 | 86 | 6 | 2 | 8 | |
Inspector Mason | Kevin Stoney | 42 | 25 Jul 1921 | 20 Jan 2008 | 86 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
Miss Pringle | Edith Sharpe | 69 | 14 Sep 1894 | 6 Jun 1984 | 89 | 2 | 2 | ||
Pearson | Richard Vernon | 38 | 7 Mar 1925 | 4 Dec 1997 | 72 | 2 | 2 | ||
Sally | Lois Daine | 22 | 5 Dec 1941 | 81 | 3 | 3 | |||
Sanderson | Norman Bird | 39 | 30 Oct 1924 | 22 Apr 2005 | 80 | 5 | 5 | ||
Uncredited | |||||||||
Bank Customer | Graham Tonbridge | 57 | 13 May 1906 | 30 Nov 1986 | 80 | 1 | 1 | ||
Bank Customer | Paddy Smith | 5 | 5 | ||||||
Mary Fordyce (voice) | Vera Cook | 51 | 19 Jun 1912 | 1 Jun 1996 | 83 | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
Sidewalk Santa Claus | Jimmy Cains | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Tommy Fordyce (voice) | Garath Tandy | 24 | 13 Aug 1939 | 83 | 1 | 1 | |||
Window Cleaner | Fred Stone | 55 | 9 Jul 1908 | 8 Jul 1995 | 86 | 3 | 3 |
Production
FILMING BEGAN | 4 April 1961 | |
UK RELEASE | 15 December 1963 | |
STUDIO | Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire, England |
Footnotes
This taut morality play, a twist on the Scrooge story, was one of Hammer’s most underrated films and did not find its way into the British cinema until 1963. It is based on a TV play called “The Gold Inside”.
Director Quentin Lawrence returned to Hammer in 1965 to make “The Secret of Blood Island”.
Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection