The Rossiter Case – 1951

Exclusive Films Present, A Hammer Production
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 | 6 Apr 2022 | 95 | 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 | 34 | |
Editor | John Ferris | 7 | |||||
Hair Stylist | Monica Hustler | 25 | 1926 | 96 | 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 Shingler | 31 | 29 Aug 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