1953 The Flanagan Boy

The Flanagan Boy – 1953

Alternative title: Bad Blonde

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 

New Symphony Orchestra
RCA Sound System
Black & White 81 minutes

Storyline

Sharkey and his mate Charlie run a boxing booth in a funfair, where a young merchant seaman named Johnny Flanagan impresses them with his skill in the ring. They persuade promoter Giuseppe Vecchi to back Johnny and soon he is on the way to the top of his sport. But disaster follows when he embarks on an affair with Vecchi’s beautiful, but scheming wife, an affair which ends in murder!

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Footnotes

Hollywood director Reginald Le Borg’s previous credits include the 1943 Universal horror film “The Mummy’s Ghost”, starring Lon Chaney, Jr.

Character actor George Woodbridge appears as a police inspector in this film. His Cornish accents have infiltrated most of Europe for Hammer over the years, for instance the Carpathians in “Dracula” (1958) and “Dracula – Prince of Darkness” (1966), Germany in “The Revenge of Frankenstein” (1958), Spain in “The Curse of the Werewolf” (1961) and even Cornwall in “The Reptile” (1966)!

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