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