Dick Barton Strikes Back – 1949

A Hammer production released by Exclusive Films by arrangement with Ted Kavanagh Associated.
Adapted from the radio feature by arrangement with the BBC.

Opening credit:- “The major part of this film was shot on actual locations. The producers wish to thank the following for facilities granted – The Tower Blackpool, American Overseas Airways, KLM Airways, The South London Electricity Board, The London Zoo.”

Studio sequences filmed at Viking Studios, Kensington, London.
Recorded on the Viking sound system.

Screenplay by Elizabeth Baron and Ambrose Grayson from an original story by Ambrose Grayson.

Black & White 73 minutes

Storyline

Once again, wonder man special agent Dick Barton is called on to save Britain from almost certain disaster. This time he and his chum Snowey White do battle with ruthless foreign activists, who have developed a machine to blow up the town of Blackpool and annihilate its inhabitants!

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Crew


Function	Credited	Age at Release	Birth		Death	Age	Hammer Productions
	Click a link for more info						Credited	Uncredited	Total
Art Director	Ivan King	27	1 Jan 1922	01.01.1922		101	1		1
Associate Producer	Mae Murray	60	10 May 1889		23 Mar 1965	75	1		1
Associate Producer	Anthony Hinds	26	18 Sep 1922		30 Sep 2013	91	84	1	85
Ast. Director	Dicky Leeman	38	27 Jan 1911		7 Aug 2011	100	1		1
Camera Operator	Peter Newbrook	29	29 Jun 1920		19 Jun 2009	88	1		1
Casting Director	Edgar Blatt	41	4 Sep 1907				3		3
Casting Manager	Mary Harris						4	2	6
Continuity	Prudence Sykes						11	2	13
Director	Godfrey Grayson	35	2 Aug 1913		1 Jun 1998	84	11		11
Director of Photog.	Cedric Williams	36	1913		1999	85	7		7
Make-up	Jack Smith						1		1
Musical Score	Frank Spencer	38	19 Jun 1911		Feb 1975	63	21	1	22
Musical Score	Rupert Grayson						8		8
Production Manager	Don Wynne	31	19 Mar 1918		1993	74	1		1
Supervising Editor	Ray Pitt						5	3	8
Supervising Electrician	Jack Curtis						3	23	26
Ast. Art Director	Ken Adam	28	5 Feb 1921		10 Mar 2016	95	1	1	2
Clapper Loader	Neil Binney	18	1 Jun 1931	01.06.1931		91	17	10	27
Composer: Theme Music	Charles Williams	56	8 May 1893		7 Sep 1978	85		2	2
Focus Puller	Gerry Turpin	23	1 Sep 1925		16 Sep 1997	72		1	1
Second Ast. Director	Jimmy Sangster	21	2 Dec 1927		19 Aug 2011	83	65	2	67

Cast


Character	Actor	Age at Release	Birth		Death	Age	Hammer Productions
	Click a link for more info						Credited	Uncredited	Total
Alex	George Crawford						2		2
Colonel Gardener	Humphrey Kent	55	2 Nov 1893		19 Apr 1972	78	1		1
Dick Barton	Don Stannard	33	1 Jan 1916		9 Jul 1949	33	4		4
Fouracada	Sebastian Cabot	31	6 Jul 1918		22 Aug 1977	59	1		1
Inspector Burke	Sidney Vivian	48	18 Apr 1901		22 Dec 1984	83	3		3
Lord Armadale	James Raglan	48	6 Jun 1901		15 Nov 1961	60	3	1	4
Major Henderson	John Harvey	37	27 Sep 1911		19 Jul 1982	70	12	1	13
Nicholas	Tony Morelli						1		1
Nick	Laurie Taylor	31	13 Jul 1918		6 Aug 2003	85	2	3	5
Robert Creston	Morris Sweden	38	10 Jun 1911		26 Nov 1979	68	1	1	2
Snowey White	Bruce Walker	43	4 Sep 1905		7 Mar 1967	61	1	1	2
Tina	Jean Lodge	21	4 Aug 1927	04.08.1927		95	3		3
Uncredited
Bandleader	Billy Cotton	50	6 May 1899		25 Mar 1969	69		1	1
Henchman	Daniel Brown							5	5
Sergeant - Military Police	Wensley Pithey	35	20 Jan 1914		10 Nov 1993	79	2	1	3
Soldier	Peter Wyngard	21	23 Aug 1927		15 Jan 2018	90	1	1	2
Waiter in Nightclub	Victor Platt	28	30 Oct 1920		30 Jan 2017	96		2	2
With	Jimmy O'Dea	50	26 Apr 1899		7 Jan 1965	65		1	1

Production



UK RELEASE	18 July 1949
STUDIO	Viking Film Studios, 1-5 St Mary Abbots Place, Kensington, London

LOCATION	Haslemere, Surrey, England	The first village attacked by the sonic ray
	Liverpool, Merseyside, England
	Pinner, Middlesex, England
	Blackpool Tower Ballroom, Blackpool

Footnotes

Camera Operator Peter Newbrook eventually became a Producer. His credits include the 1967 horror film “Corruption”, starring Peter Cushing.

Don Stannard (Dick Barton) and Sebastian Cabot (Fouracada) were involved in a car crash in Cookham Dean, Berkshire, England, on July 9, 1949. Stannard, who was driving, was killed instantly but Cabot escaped with only minor injuries.

Sebastian Cabot went on to provid the voice for Bagheera in Disney’s Jungle Book (1967).

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