36 Hours – 1954

A Hammer production released by Exclusive Films (UK) and Lippert Films (USA)
Copyright 1953 by Exclusive Films Ltd.
All characters in this photoplay are fictitious and bear no resemblance to any real person, living or dead
RCA Sound System
Black & White 80 mins
Storyline
An American pilot AWOL from the states is framed for his wife’s murder and has just 36 hours to prove his innocence.
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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 | J. Elder Wills | 54 | 26 Apr 1900 | 1970 | 69 | 22 | 22 | |
Ast. Director | Jimmy Sangster | 26 | 2 Dec 1927 | 19 Aug 2011 | 83 | 65 | 2 | 67 |
Camera Operator | Len Harris | 38 | 19 May 1916 | 21 Feb 1995 | 78 | 52 | 1 | 53 |
Continuity | Renee Glynne | 28 | 3 Aug 1926 | 6 Apr 2022 | 95 | 38 | 3 | 41 |
Director | Montgomery Tully | 50 | 6 May 1904 | 10 Oct 1988 | 84 | 4 | 4 | |
Director of Photog. | Walter Harvey BSc | 51 | 9 Feb 1903 | 1979 | 75 | 34 | 34 | |
Editor | James Needs | 35 | 17 Oct 1919 | 4 Feb 2003 | 83 | 110 | 1 | 111 |
Hairdresser | Nina Broe | 1993 | 10 | 10 | ||||
Make-up | Phil Leakey | 46 | 4 May 1908 | 26 Nov 1992 | 84 | 48 | 48 | |
Music Composed & Conducted by | Ivor Slaney | 33 | 27 May 1921 | 20 Mar 1998 | 76 | 11 | 1 | 12 |
Producer | Anthony Hinds | 32 | 18 Sep 1922 | 30 Sep 2013 | 91 | 84 | 1 | 85 |
Production Manager | John (Pinky) Green | 45 | 14 Feb 1909 | Jul 1978 | 69 | 7 | 7 | |
Recordist | Bill Salter | 1983 | 17 | 17 | ||||
Uncredited | ||||||||
Assembly Cutter | Henry Richardson | 18 | 13 Jan 1936 | 31 Jul 2017 | 81 | 4 | 7 | 11 |
Boom Operator | Percy Britten | 35 | 1 Oct 1919 | 1996 | 76 | 21 | 21 | |
Clapper Loader | Tom Friswell | 24 | 1930 | 2002 | 72 | 18 | 18 | |
Focus Puller | Harry Oakes | 33 | 16 Jan 1921 | 11 Dec 2012 | 91 | 53 | 53 | |
Music Supervisor | John Hollingsworth | 38 | 20 Mar 1916 | 29 Dec 1963 | 47 | 36 | 2 | 38 |
Production Secretary | Jean Tisdale | 1 | 1 | |||||
Stock Music | Malcolm Arnold | 33 | 21 Oct 1921 | 23 Sep 2006 | 84 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
Wardrobe | Molly Arbuthnot | 45 | 19 Dec 1908 | 31 Oct 2001 | 92 | 48 | 4 | 52 |
Cast
Character | Actor | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
Click a link for more info | Credited | Uncredited | Total | ||||||
Harry Cross, desk clerk | Harold Lang | 31 | 1 Jan 1923 | 16 Nov 1970 | 47 | 8 | 1 | 9 | |
Henry Slosson | Kenneth Griffith | 33 | 12 Oct 1921 | 25 Jun 2006 | 84 | 1 | 1 | ||
Katherine “Katie” Rogers | Elsie Albin | 32 | 17 Dec 1921 | 3 Apr 2009 | 87 | 1 | 1 | ||
Major Bill Rogers | Dan Duryea | 47 | 23 Jan 1907 | 7 Jun 1968 | 61 | 1 | 1 | ||
Orville Hart | John Chandos | 37 | 27 Jul 1917 | 21 Sep 1987 | 70 | 1 | 1 | ||
Pam Palmer | Marianne Stone | 32 | 23 Aug 1922 | 21 Dec 2009 | 87 | 9 | 2 | 11 | |
Sister Jenny Miller | Ann Gudrun | 28 | 12 Mar 1926 | 97 | 1 | 1 | |||
Slossen, the smuggler | Eric Pohlmann | 41 | 18 Jul 1913 | 25 Jul 1979 | 66 | 7 | 7 | ||
Soup kitchen supervisor | Jane Carr | 45 | 1 Aug 1909 | 29 Sep 1957 | 48 | 2 | 2 | ||
The Inspector | Michael Golden | 41 | 15 Aug 1913 | 1983 | 69 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
Uncredited | |||||||||
Canteen Waitress | Jacquline McKenzie | 25 | 1929 | 94 | 1 | 1 | |||
Clerk | John Warren | 37 | 13 Nov 1916 | 1977 | 60 | 4 | 1 | 5 | |
Cop | Kenneth Brown | 22 | 20 Jan 1932 | 17 Mar 1997 | 65 | 1 | 1 | ||
Detective at Ann’s Apartment | Russell Napier | 43 | 28 Nov 1910 | 19 Aug 1964 | 53 | 5 | 1 | 6 | |
Detective Sgt Blake | John Wynn | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||
Driver | Robert O'Neal | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Fake Detective | Joe Phelps | 7 | 7 | ||||||
Joe | Lee Patterson | 25 | 31 Mar 1929 | 14 Feb 2007 | 77 | 1 | 1 | ||
Mrs Hart | Christine Adrian | 45 | 3 Oct 1909 | 16 Oct 1956 | 47 | 2 | 2 | ||
Ned Palmer | Stephen Vercoe | 33 | 19 Mar 1921 | Jul 1997 | 76 | 1 | 1 | ||
Police Photog. | Fred Davis | 18 | 1 Sep 1936 | 26 Oct 1988 | 52 | 4 | 4 | ||
Police Photog. | Ian Selby | 5 | 5 | ||||||
Pop - Pilot | Robert Henderson | 49 | 19 Dec 1904 | 9 Sep 1985 | 80 | 1 | 1 | ||
Sergeant | Richard Ford | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Wren | Gabrielle Blunt | 35 | 8 Jan 1919 | 10 Jun 2014 | 95 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Wren | Angela Glynne | 21 | 7 Sep 1933 | 22 Apr 2008 | 74 | 2 | 2 | ||
Wren | Cleo Rose | 3 | 3 | ||||||
Wren | Sheila Berry | 1 | 1 |
Production
FILMING BEGAN | 1 May 1953 | |
UK RELEASE | 25 October 1954 | |
STUDIO | Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire, England |
Footnotes
Character actor Eric Pohlmann went on to provide the voice for Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond films “From Russia with Love (1963) and “Thunderball (1965)”. He also appeared in 6 other Hammer films – “The Gambler and the Lady (1952)”, “Blood Orange (1952)”,”Break in the Circle (1955)”, “The Glass Cage (1955)”, “Further Up the Creek (1958)” and “Passport to China (1960)”.
Ann Gudrun played “Supergran” in the 1885 ITV series of the same name.
On 16th November 1970, Harold Lang died of a heart attack whilst travelling through Egypt.
Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection