The Man in Black – 1950

A Hammer Production of The B.B.C. Sensation
United Programmes Sound System
Black & White 72 minutes
Storyline
Henry Clavering suspects his second wife Bertha is trying to drive his daughter (by his first marriage) insane, to stop her inheriting his money. He decides to use his yoga skills to pretend to be dead, and thereby expose her villainy.
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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 | Denis Wreford | 45 | 1905 | 1988 | 82 | 5 | 5 | ||
Ast. Director | Jimmy Sangster | 22 | 2 Dec 1927 | 19 Aug 2011 | 83 | 65 | 2 | 67 | |
Camera Operator | Peter Bryan | 30 | 28 Sep 1919 | Sep 1972 | 52 | 22 | 22 | ||
Casting | Prudence Sykes | 11 | 2 | 13 | |||||
Continuity | Renee Glynne | 23 | 3 Aug 1926 | 6 Apr 2022 | 95 | 38 | 3 | 41 | |
Director | Francis Searle | 40 | 14 Mar 1909 | 31 Jul 2002 | 93 | 17 | 17 | ||
Director of Photog. | Cedric Williams | 37 | 1913 | 1999 | 85 | 7 | 7 | ||
Editor | John Ferris | 7 | 7 | ||||||
Hair Stylist | Monica Hustler | 24 | 1 Jan 1926 | 97 | 18 | 18 | |||
Make-up | Phil Leakey | 41 | 4 May 1908 | 26 Nov 1992 | 84 | 48 | 48 | ||
Musical Director | Frank Spencer | 38 | 19 Jun 1911 | Feb 1975 | 63 | 21 | 1 | 22 | |
Musical Director | Rupert Grayson | 8 | 8 | ||||||
Original Story | Francis Searle | 40 | 14 Mar 1909 | 31 Jul 2002 | 93 | 17 | 17 | ||
Producer | Anthony Hinds | 27 | 18 Sep 1922 | 30 Sep 2013 | 91 | 84 | 1 | 85 | |
Production Manager | Arthur Barnes | 64 | 1886 | 1956 | 69 | 20 | 20 | ||
Recordist | Edgar Vetter | 37 | 27 Jan 1913 | 15 Dec 1988 | 75 | 15 | 15 | ||
Screenplay | John Gilling | 37 | 29 May 1912 | 22 Nov 1984 | 72 | 21 | 21 | ||
Uncredited | |||||||||
Art Department | Tom Money | 33 | 1917 | 1974 | 56 | 2 | 20 | 22 | |
Art Depatment | Michael Lyons | 10 | 10 | ||||||
Clapper Loader | Harry Oakes | 29 | 16 Jan 1921 | 11 Dec 2012 | 97 | 53 | 53 | ||
Editor | Ray Pitt | 5 | 3 | 8 | |||||
Electrician | Jack Curtis | 3 | 23 | 26 | |||||
Focus Puller | Neil Binney | 18 | 1 Jun 1931 | 92 | 17 | 10 | 27 | ||
Focus Puller | Michael Reed | 20 | 7 Jul 1929 | 15 Dec 2022 | 93 | 5 | 2 | 7 | |
Second Ast. Director | Jack Causey | 36 | 1914 | 1977 | 63 | 6 | 1 | 7 | |
Still Photog. | John Jay | 29 | 14 Nov 1920 | 29 Apr 2005 | 84 | 13 | 22 | 35 |
Cast
Character | Actor | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | ||
Click a link for more info | Credited | Uncredited | Total | |||||
Bertha Clavering | Betty Anne Davies | 39 | 24 Dec 1910 | 14 May 1955 | 44 | 2 | 2 | |
Doctor | Gerald Case | 45 | 26 Jan 1905 | 22 May 1985 | 80 | 3 | 3 | |
Elsie | Mollie Palmer | 29 | 11 Jan 1921 | 27 Apr 2009 | 88 | 1 | 1 | |
Henry Clavering/Hodson | Sidney James | 36 | 8 May 1913 | 26 Apr 1976 | 62 | 7 | 7 | |
Janice | Sheala Burrell | 27 | 9 May 1922 | 19 Jul 2011 | 89 | 5 | 5 | |
Joan | Hazel Penwarden | 1 | 1 | |||||
Mrs. Carter | Courtney Hope | 64 | 19 Dec 1886 | 17 Jan 1975 | 88 | 4 | 4 | |
Sandford | Lawrence Baskcombe | 66 | 13 Oct 1883 | 12 Feb 1962 | 78 | 1 | 1 | |
The Man in Black – Storyteller | Valentine Dyall | 42 | 7 May 1907 | 24 Jun 1985 | 78 | 3 | 3 | |
Victor | Anthony Forwood | 34 | 3 Oct 1915 | 18 May 1988 | 72 | 6 | 6 |
Production
FILMING BEGAN | 31 July 1949 | |
UK RELEASE | 6 March 1950 | |
STUDIO | Oakley Court Hotel, Oakley Green, Windsor, Berkshire | |
Footnotes
This was the debut film for actress Sheila Burrell, who also appeared for Hammer in “Cloudburst” (1951), “The Rossiter Case” (1951), “Women Without Men”(1956) and “Paranoiac” (1963).
Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection