Death in High Heels – 1947

An Exclusive Films Presentation
A Marylebone-Hammer Production

Black & White 50 minutes

Storyline

The police are called in when a woman is murdered at a luxury Bond Street shop.

Crew


Function	Credited	Age at Release	Birth	Death	Age	Hammer Productions
						Credited	Uncredited	Total
Director	Lionel Tomlinson	39	5 Dec 1907	23 Sep 1972	64	2		2
Director of Photog.	Stanley Clinton MBKS	40	1 Jan 1907			4	1	5
Hats	Gertrude Harris					2		2
Producer	Henry Halsted	40	1 Jan 1907	10 Mar 1970	63	4		4

Cast


Character	Actor	Age at Release	Birth			Hammer Productions
						Credited	Uncredited	Total
Agnes Gregory	Veronica Rose	36	8 Jul 1911	25 Jan 1968	56	2		2
Aileen	Denise Anthony	21	1926	2002	76	1		1
Detective Charlesworth	Don Stannard	31	1 Jan 1916	9 Jul 1949	33	4		4
Frank Bevan	Kenneth Warrington					1		1
Magda Doon	Patricia Laffan	28	19 Mar 1919	10 Mar 2014	94	2		2
Miss Almond Blossom	Diana Wong	30	20 Oct 1916	14 Oct 2012	95	1		1
Mr Cecil	Bill Hodge					2		2
Mrs ‘Arris	Nora Gordon	53	29 Nov 1893	11 May 1970	76	4	1	5
Sergeant Bedd	Leslie Spurling					1		1
Victoria David	Elsa Tee	29	3 Sep 1917	25 Dec 2006	89	1		1

Production


FILMING BEGAN	January 1947
UK RELEASE	18 July 1947
STUDIO	Marylebone Studios, Marylebone, London, England
LOCATION	Pontefract Castle, Wigmore St, London	The pub was demolished in 2015, except for retained facade.

Footnotes

Although he doesn’t receive a credit here, future Hammer producer and son of Hammer founder Will Hammer (real name Will Hinds) worked on this film as Production Supervisor.

Lionel (Tommy) Tomlinson also directed Hammer’s “Who Killed Van Loon” 1948.

Don Stannard went on to play the title role in Hammer’s Dick Barton trilogy.

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