Dick Barton, Special Agent – 1948
A Marylebone-Hammer production released by Exclusive Films.
An adaptation from the original broadcast subject by arrangement with the BBC. Yachting scenes taken at Birdham Pool, Chichester Harbour.
Story and Dialogue Alan Stranks in collaboration with Alfred Goulding.
Black & White 70 minutes
Storyline
Suave, debonair mega hero Dick Barton arrives in the tranquil little Cornish fishing village of Echo Bay, accompanied by his faithful sidekicks Snowey White and Jock Anderson. Barton’s presence soon disrupts the activities of the local smugglers, prompting their leader, the sinister Dr Caspar, to order several bungled attempts on his life. For Caspar is in reality a foreign agent with much more than mere smuggling on his mind – he has a dastardly plan to destroy the very fabric of Britain by polluting the nation’s entire water supply with a deadly poison. The country’s only hope of survival lays with – Dick Barton, Special Agent!
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Crew
| Function | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
| Credited | Uncredited | Total | |||||||
| Art Director | James Marchant | 3 | 3 | ||||||
| Assistant Director | Eric Veendam | 45 | 1903 | 1970 | 67 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Casting Director | Edgar Blatt | 40 | 4 Sep 1907 | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Casting Manager | Mary Harris | 4 | 2 | 6 | |||||
| Continuity | Doreen Saunders | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Director | Alfred Goulding | 64 | 26 Jan 1884 | 25 Apr 1972 | 88 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Director of Photography | Stanley Clinton MBKS | 41 | 1 Jan 1907 | 4 | 1 | 5 | |||
| Editor | Etta Simpson | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Music Director | John Bath | 32 | 2 Jul 1915 | 23 Sep 2004 | 89 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Producer | Henry Halsted | 41 | 1 Jan 1907 | 10 Mar 1970 | 63 | 4 | 4 | ||
| Sound | Charles Hasher | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| Uncredited | |||||||||
| Clapper Loader | Neil Binney | 16 | 1 Jun 1931 | 0 | 17 | 10 | 27 | ||
| Composer - Theme Music | Charles Williams | 55 | 8 May 1893 | 7 Sep 1978 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Cast
| Character | Actor | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | ||
| Click a link to for more info | Credited | Uncredited | Total | |||||
| Dick Barton | Don Stannard | 32 | 1 Jan 1916 | 9 Jul 1949 | 33 | 4 | 4 | |
| Dr Caspar | Geoffrey Wincott | 46 | 17 Dec 1901 | 1973 | 71 | 1 | 1 | |
| Jean Hunter | Gillian Maude | 35 | 20 Nov 1912 | 1 Mar 1988 | 75 | 1 | 1 | |
| Jock Anderson | Jack Shaw | 7 Apr 1970 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Miss Horrock | Beatrice Kane | 49 | 13 Oct 1898 | 22 Jan 2004 | 105 | 2 | 2 | |
| Sir George | Campbell Singer | 39 | 16 Mar 1909 | 16 Feb 1976 | 66 | 5 | 5 | |
| Snowey White | George Ford | 41 | 1 Jan 1907 | 22 Apr 1993 | 86 | 2 | 2 | |
| Stark | Colin Douglas | 35 | 28 Jul 1912 | 21 Dec 1991 | 79 | 1 | 1 | |
| Uncredited | ||||||||
| Adele | Janice Lothian | 17 | 1931 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Gilpin | Ernest Burrow | 62 | 14 Mar 1886 | 1969 | 82 | 1 | 1 | |
| Henchman | Peter Brace | 23 | 30 Aug 1924 | 29 Oct 2018 | 94 | 3 | 3 | |
| Henchman in fist fight | Jim O'Brady | 40 | 13 May 1907 | 1 Jan 1991 | 83 | 18 | 18 | |
| Police Constable Jupp | Billy Howard | 45 | 14 Oct 1902 | 4 May 1953 | 50 | 1 | 1 | |
| Regan | Morris Sweden | 36 | 10 Jun 1911 | 26 Nov 1979 | 68 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Roscoe | Farnham Baxter | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Schuler | Arthur Bush | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Snub | Ivor Danvers | 15 | 14 Jul 1932 | 13 Mar 2020 | 87 | 1 | 1 | |
| Tony Burton | Alec Ross | 25 | 23 May 1922 | 4 Dec 1971 | 49 | 1 | 1 |
Production
| UK RELEASE | 9 May 1948 | |
| STUDIO | Marylebone Studios, Marylebone, London, England | |
| LOCATION | Birdham Pool, Chichester, West Sussex, England |
Footnotes
Nine years earlier, Alfred Goulding had directed Peter Cushing in the 1939 Laurel and Hardy comedy “A Chump at Oxford”.
Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection