The Flanagan Boy – 1953

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 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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Crew


Function	Credited	Age at Release	Birth	Death	Age	Hammer Credits
Adaptation by	Richard Landau	38	21 Feb 1914	18 Sep 1993	79	8
Art Director	Wilfred Arnold	49	12 Feb 1903	9 Jun 1970	67	5
Assistant Director	Jimmy Sangster	25	2 Dec 1927	19 Aug 2011	83	65
Based on the novel by	Max Catto	45	29 Jul 1907	12 Mar 1992	84	1
Camera Operator	Len Harris	36	19 May 1916	21 Feb 1995	78	52
Continuity	Renee Glynne	26	3 Aug 1926	6 Apr 2022	95	38
Dialogue Director	Patrick Jenkins					2
Directed by	Reginald Le Borg	50	11 Dec 1902	25 Mar 1989	86	1
Director of Photography	Walter Harvey BSc	49	9 Feb 1903	1979	75	34
Editor	James Needs	33	17 Oct 1919	2003	83	110
Hairdresser	Nina Broe		No Data	1993		10
Make-up	Phil Leakey	44	4 May 1908	26 Nov 1992	84	48
Music Composed & Conducted by	Ivor Slaney	31	27 May 1921	20 Mar 1998	76	11
Produced by	Anthony Hinds	30	18 Sep 1922	30 Sep 2013	91	84
Production Manager	John (Pinky) Green	43	14 Feb 1909	1 Jul 1978	69	7
Recorded by	The New Symphony Orchestra					2
Recordist	Bill Salter			1983		17
Screenplay by	Guy Elmes	32	22 Jul 1920	1 Dec 1998	78	1

Cast


Character	Actor	Age at Release	Birth	Death	Age	Hammer Appearances
Barmaid	Bettina Dickson	32	22 Dec 1920	23 Oct 1994	73	1
Charlie	John Slater	36	22 Aug 1916	9 Jan 1975	58	1
Giuseppe Vecchi	Frederick Valk	57	10 Jun 1895	23 Jul 1956	61	1
Johnny Flanagan	Tony Wright	27	10 Dec 1925	7 Jun 1989	63	1
Lorna	Barbara Payton	25	16 Nov 1927	8 May 1967	39	2
Mr Corelli	Enzo Coticchia					2
Mrs Corelli	Selma Vaz-Dias	41	23 Nov 1911	30 Aug 1977	65	1
Mrs Vecchi	Marie Burke	58	19 Oct 1894	21 Mar 1988	93	3
Police Inspector	George Woodbridge	45	16 Feb 1907	31 Mar 1973	66	9
Sharkey	Sidney James	39	8 May 1913	26 Apr 1976	62	7

Production


FILMING BEGAN	1 November 1952
UK RELEASE	12 October 1953
STUDIO	Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire, England

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