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 Credits |
| Art Director | James Marchant | 3 | ||||
| Assistant Director | Eric Veendam | 45 | 1903 | 1970 | 67 | 2 |
| Casting Director | Edgar Blatt | 40 | 4 Sep 1907 | 3 | ||
| Casting Manager | Mary Harris | 4 | ||||
| Continuity | Doreen Saunders | 1 | ||||
| Directed by | Alfred Goulding | 63 | 26 Jan 1884 | 25 Apr 1972 | 88 | 2 |
| Director of Photography | Stanley Clinton, MBKS | 42 | 1 Jan 1907 | 4 | ||
| Editor | Etta Simpson | 1 | ||||
| Music Directed by | John Bath | 32 | 2 Jul 1915 | 23 Sep 2004 | 89 | 2 |
| Produced by | Henry Halsted | 41 | 1 Jan 1907 | 10 Mar 1970 | 63 | 4 |
| Sound | Charles Hasher | 1 |
Cast
| Character | Actor | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Appearances |
| Dick Barton | Don Stannard | 32 | 1 Jan 1916 | 9 Jul 1949 | 33 | 4 |
| Dr Caspar | Geoffrey Wincott | 46 | 17 Dec 1901 | 1 Jan 1973 | 71 | 1 |
| Jean Hunter | Gillian Maude | 35 | 20 Nov 1912 | 1 Mar 1988 | 75 | 1 |
| Jock Anderson | Jack Shaw | 7 Apr 1970 | 1 | |||
| Miss Horrock | Beatrice Kane | 49 | 13 Oct 1898 | 22 Jan 2004 | 105 | 2 |
| Sir George | Campbell Singer | 38 | 16 Mar 1909 | 16 Feb 1976 | 66 | 5 |
| Snowey White | George Ford | 41 | 1 Jan 1907 | 22 Apr 1993 | 86 | 2 |
Filming
STUDIO:
Marylebone Studios, Marylebone, London
ON 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