Who Killed Van Loon – 1948

Black & White 48 minutes
Storyline
A man searching for a cache of diamonds rescues a Dutch cutter from a concentration camp and murders his partner, throwing the blame on the former’s daughter.


Crew
Function | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | ||
Credited | Uncredited | Total | ||||||
Director | Gordon Kyle | 2 | 2 | |||||
Director | Lionel Tomlinson | 31 | 5 Dec 1907 | 23 Sep 1972 | 64 | 2 | 2 | |
Film Editing | Douglas Myers | 38 | 15 Jan 1910 | 1962 | 51 | 3 | 3 | |
Producer | Anthony Hinds | 25 | 18 Sep 1922 | 30 Sep 2013 | 91 | 84 | 1 | 85 |
Producer | Gordon Kyle | 2 | 2 | |||||
Producer | James Carreras | 39 | 30 Jan 1909 | 9 Jun 1990 | 81 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Writer | Peter Creswell | 53 | 6 Feb 1895 | 5 Jan 1952 | 56 | 1 | 1 |
Cast
Character | Actor | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | ||
Credited | Uncredited | Total | ||||||
Anna Kreuger | Kay Bannerman | 29 | 11 Oct 1919 | 31 Mar 1991 | 71 | 1 | 1 | |
Detective Inspector Oxley | Robert Wyndham | 41 | 18 Sep 1905 | 19 Aug 1947 | 41 | 1 | 1 | |
Ian Ferguson | John Dodsworth | 38 | 17 Sep 1910 | 11 Sep 1964 | 53 | 1 | 1 | |
John Smith/Johann Schmidt | Raymond Lovell | 47 | 13 Apr 1900 | 1 Oct 1953 | 53 | 1 | 1 | |
Peggy Osborne | Patricia Laffan | 28 | 19 Mar 1919 | 10 Mar 2014 | 94 | 2 | 2 | |
Simmonds | Milton Rosmer | 67 | 4 Nov 1881 | 7 Dec 1971 | 90 | 1 | 1 |
Production
UK RELEASE | 30 June 1948 |
Footnotes
Anthony Hinds’ first production, after the original producer pulled out. When Hinds took over, there was no script, and one of the cast had died, so existing footage had to be worked around.
Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection