The Rossiter Case – 1951

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Black & White 72 mins

Storyline

A husband cheats on his disabled wife, who has been paralysed in a car accident, with her sister. When the sister is murdered he is accused of the crime, but it turns out that he may not be the killer after all.

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Crew


Function	Credited	Age at Release	Birth		Death	Age	Hammer Credits
Assistant Director	Jimmy Sangster	22	2 Dec 1927		19 Aug 2011	83	65
Camera Operator	Peter Bryan	31	28 Sep 1919		1 Sep 1972	52	22
Casting	Prudence Sykes						11
Continuity	Renee Glynne	24	3 Aug 1926	03.08.1926		94	38
Directed by	Francis Searle	41	14 Mar 1909		31 Jul 2002	93	17
Director of Photography	Walter Harvey BSc	47	9 Feb 1903		1979	75	33
Editor	John Ferris						7
Hair Stylist	Monica Hustler	25	1926	01.01.1926		95	18
Make-up	Phil Leakey	42	4 May 1908		26 Nov 1992	84	48
Musical Director	Frank Spencer	39	19 Jun 1911		1 Feb 1975	63	21
Produced by	Anthony Hinds	28	18 Sep 1922		30 Sep 2013	91	84
Production Manager	Arthur Barnes	65	1886		1956	70	20
Recordist	Edgar Vetter	37	27 Jan 1913		15 Dec 1988	75	15
Screenplay by	Francis Searle	41	14 Mar 1909		31 Jul 2002	93	17
Screenplay by	John Hunter	40	23 Aug 1911		8 Sep 1984	73	4
Screenplay by	Kenneth Hyde	43	21 Mar 1907		18 Sep 1964	57	1

Cast


Character	Actor	Age at Release	Birth	Death	Age	Hammer Appearances
Agnes	Eleanor Bryan	24	1927	6 Jan 2020	93	2
Alice	Gabrielle Blunt	31	8 Jan 1919	10 Jun 2014	95	1
Arthur	Anthony Allen					1
Constable	Dennis Castle	36	16 Aug 1914	27 Feb 1993	78	1
Dr Bendix	Henry Edwards	68	18 Sep 1882	2 Nov 1952	70	2
Hobson	Frederic Steger	56	13 Aug 1894	1975	80	1
Honor	Sheila Burrell	28	9 May 1922	19 Jul 2011	89	5
Inspector	Ewen Solon	33	7 Sep 1917	7 Jul 1985	67	5
Joe	Stanley Baker	22	28 Feb 1928	28 Jun 1976	48	5
Liz	Helen Shingle	31	29 Sep 1919	8 Oct 2019	100	1
Marty	Ann Codrington	56	10 Sep 1894	29 Mar 1982	87	1
Nurse West	Dorothy Batley	48	18 Jan 1902	8 Dec 1983	81	1
Peter	Clement McCallin	37	6 Mar 1913	7 Aug 1977	64	1
Sir James Ferguson	Frederick Leister	65	1 Dec 1885	24 Aug 1970	84	1

Production


FILMING BEGAN	30 April 1950
UK RELEASE	1 January 1951
STUDIO	Gilston Park, Hertfordshire, England

Footnotes

Ewen Solon played Stapleton in Hammer’s “The Hound of the Baskervilles” (1959), he also appeared (uncredited) as a camel vendor in “The Strangler’s of Bombay” (1959).

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