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 Credits | |
Art Director | Don Mingaye | 32 | 1929 | 8 Nov 2017 | 88 | 25 | |
Assistant Director | John Peverall | 30 | 1931 | 3 Oct 2009 | 78 | 21 | |
Associate Producer | Anthony Nelson-Keys | 49 | 13 Nov 1911 | 19 Mar 1985 | 73 | 41 | |
Camera Operator | Len Harris | 44 | 19 May 1916 | 21 Feb 1995 | 78 | 52 | |
Casting | Stuart Lyons | 33 | 1928 | 23 Feb 1998 | 70 | 8 | |
Continuity | Tilly Day | 58 | 1 Jan 1903 | 1 Jan 1994 | 91 | 12 | |
Directed by | Quentin Lawrence | 40 | 6 Nov 1920 | 9 Mar 1979 | 58 | 2 | |
Director of Photography | Arthur Grant, BSc | 46 | 1915 | 1972 | 57 | 30 | |
Editor | Eric Boyd-Perkins | 44 | 1917 | 4 Dec 2014 | 97 | 10 | |
Executive Producer | Michael Carreras | 33 | 21 Dec 1927 | 19 Apr 1994 | 66 | 82 | |
From a play by | Jacques Gillies | 40 | 16 Mar 1920 | 1 Apr 2009 | 89 | 1 | |
Hair Stylist | Frieda Steiger | 28 | |||||
Make-up Artist | Roy Ashton | 51 | 16 Apr 1909 | 10 Jan 1995 | 85 | 36 | |
Music Composed by | Wilfred Josephs | 33 | 24 Jul 1927 | 17 Nov 1997 | 70 | 3 | |
Musical Supervisor | John Hollingsworth | 44 | 20 Mar 1916 | 29 Dec 1963 | 47 | 36 | |
Production Designer | Bernard Robinson | 48 | 28 Jul 1912 | 2 Mar 1970 | 57 | 46 | |
Production Manager | Clifford Parkes | 12 | |||||
Screenplay by | David T. Chantler | 35 | 24 May 1925 | 13 Mar 2012 | 86 | 2 | |
Screenplay by | Lewis Greifer | 45 | 19 Dec 1915 | 18 Mar 2003 | 87 | 1 | |
Sound Editor | Alban Streeter | 31 | 30 Nov 1929 | 92 | 7 | ||
Sound Recordist | Jock May | 56 | 1905 | 8 Jan 1991 | 86 | 30 | |
Supervising Editor | James Needs | 41 | 17 Oct 1919 | 2003 | 83 | 110 | |
Wardrobe Mistress | Rosemary Burrows | 36 | |||||
Wardrobe Supervisor | Molly Arbuthnot | 52 | 19 Dec 1908 | 31 Oct 2001 | 92 | 48 |
Cast
Character | Actor | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Appearances | |
Collins | Charles Morgan | 51 | 21 Jul 1909 | 1 May 1994 | 84 | 2 | |
Detective Constable | Alan Haywood | 31 | 30 Nov 1929 | 6 Mar 1995 | 65 | 1 | |
Fordyce | Peter Cushing | 47 | 26 May 1913 | 11 Aug 1994 | 81 | 24 | |
Gore-Hepburn | Andre Morell | 51 | 20 Aug 1909 | 29 Nov 1978 | 69 | 9 | |
Harvill | Barry Lowe | 36 | 1925 | 12 Dec 2011 | 86 | 6 | |
Inspector Mason | Kevin Stoney | 39 | 25 Jul 1921 | 20 Jan 2008 | 86 | 2 | |
Miss Pringle | Edith Sharpe | 66 | 14 Sep 1894 | 6 Jun 1984 | 89 | 2 | |
Pearson | Richard Vernon | 35 | 7 Mar 1925 | 4 Dec 1997 | 72 | 2 | |
Sally | Lois Daine | 19 | 5 Dec 1941 | 80 | 3 | ||
Sanderson | Norman Bird | 36 | 30 Oct 1924 | 22 Apr 2005 | 80 | 5 |
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