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
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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Crew
Function | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
Click a link for more info | Credited | Uncredited | Total | ||||||
Adaptation | Richard Landau | 39 | 21 Feb 1914 | 18 Sep 1993 | 79 | 8 | 8 | ||
Art Director | Wilfred Arnold | 50 | 12 Feb 1903 | 9 Jun 1970 | 67 | 5 | 5 | ||
Ast. Director | Jimmy Sangster | 25 | 2 Dec 1927 | 19 Aug 2011 | 83 | 65 | 2 | 67 | |
Based on the novel by | Max Catto | 46 | 29 Jul 1907 | 12 Mar 1992 | 84 | 1 | 1 | ||
Camera Operator | Len Harris | 37 | 19 May 1916 | 21 Feb 1995 | 78 | 52 | 1 | 53 | |
Continuity | Renee Glynne | 27 | 3 Aug 1926 | 6 Apr 2022 | 95 | 38 | 3 | 41 | |
Dialogue Director | Patrick Jenkins | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||||
Director | Reginald le Borg | 50 | 11 Dec 1902 | 25 Mar 1989 | 86 | 1 | 1 | ||
Director of Photog. | Walter Harvey BSc | 50 | 9 Feb 1903 | 1979 | 75 | 34 | 34 | ||
Editor | James Needs | 33 | 17 Oct 1919 | 4 Feb 2003 | 83 | 110 | 1 | 111 | |
Hairdresser | Nina Broe | 1993 | 10 | 10 | |||||
Make-up | Phil Leakey | 45 | 4 May 1908 | 26 Nov 1992 | 84 | 48 | 48 | ||
Music Composed & Conducted by | Ivor Slaney | 32 | 27 May 1921 | 20 Mar 1998 | 76 | 11 | 1 | 12 | |
Producer | Anthony Hinds | 31 | 18 Sep 1922 | 30 Sep 2013 | 91 | 84 | 1 | 85 | |
Production Manager | John (Pinky) Green | 44 | 14 Feb 1909 | Jul 1978 | 69 | 7 | 7 | ||
Recordist | Bill Salter | 1983 | 17 | 17 | |||||
Screenplay | Guy Elmes | 33 | 22 Jul 1920 | Dec 1998 | 78 | 1 | 1 | ||
Uncredited | |||||||||
Ast. Boom Operator | Ray Hole | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Boom Operator | Percy Britten | 34 | 1 Oct 1919 | 1996 | 76 | 21 | 21 | ||
Clapper Loader | Tom Friswell | 23 | 1930 | 2002 | 72 | 18 | 18 | ||
Dialogue Director | Patrick Jenkins | 2 | 1 | 3 | |||||
First Ast. Editor | Henry Richardson | 17 | 13 Jan 1936 | 31 Jul 2017 | 81 | 4 | 7 | 11 | |
Focus Puller | Manny Yospa | 35 | 20 Jan 1918 | 21 Apr 2002 | 84 | 4 | 4 | ||
Second Ast. Director | Aida Young | 33 | 11 Aug 1920 | 12 Aug 2007 | 87 | 8 | 6 | 14 | |
Sound Camera Operator | Peter Matthews | 3 | 3 | ||||||
Sound Re-recotdist | Peter Davies | 30 | 30 Jul 1923 | 4 Aug 2009 | 86 | 1 | 1 | ||
Still Photog. | John Jay | 32 | 14 Nov 1920 | 29 Apr 2005 | 84 | 13 | 22 | 35 | |
Third Ast. Director | Tom Sachs | 24 | 10 Apr 1929 | 94 | 8 | 1 | 9 |
Cast
Character | Actor | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | ||
Click a link for more info | Credited | Uncredited | Total | |||||
Barmaid | Bettina Dickson | 32 | 22 Dec 1920 | 23 Oct 1994 | 73 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Charlie | John Slater | 37 | 22 Aug 1916 | 9 Jan 1975 | 58 | 1 | 1 | |
Giuseppe Vecchi | Frederick Valk | 58 | 10 Jun 1895 | 23 Jul 1956 | 61 | 1 | 1 | |
Johnny Flanagan | Tony Wright | 27 | 10 Dec 1925 | 7 Jun 1989 | 63 | 1 | 1 | |
Lorna | Barbara Payton | 25 | 16 Nov 1927 | 8 May 1967 | 39 | 2 | 2 | |
Mr Corelli | Enzo Coticchia | 2 | 2 | |||||
Mrs Corelli | Selma Vaz-Dias | 41 | 23 Nov 1911 | 30 Aug 1977 | 65 | 1 | 1 | |
Mrs Vecchi | Marie Burke | 58 | 18 Oct 1894 | 21 Mar 1988 | 93 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
Police Inspector | George Woodbridge | 46 | 16 Feb 1907 | 31 Mar 1973 | 66 | 9 | 1 | 10 |
Sharkey | Sidney James | 40 | 8 May 1913 | 26 Apr 1976 | 62 | 7 | 7 | |
Uncredited | ||||||||
Audience Member with Thick Glasses | Ian Wilson | 52 | 2 Jul 1901 | Dec 1987 | 86 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
Barmaid | Bettina Dickson | 32 | 22 Dec 1920 | 23 Oct 1994 | 73 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Barnes | John Brooking | 41 | 29 Jan 1912 | 19 May 1966 | 54 | 1 | 1 | |
Black Fighter | Roy Cattouse | 32 | 15 Jun 1921 | 1996 | 74 | 1 | 1 | |
Booth Audience Member | Eddie Boyce | 1 | 1 | |||||
Booth Man | Bob Simmons | 31 | 31 Mar 1922 | 21 Oct 1987 | 65 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Booth Man | Chris Adcock | 31 | 7 Apr 1922 | 1 Jan 1998 | 75 | 4 | 4 | |
Boxing Booth Audience Mamber | Charles Rayford | 1999 | 2 | 2 | ||||
Boxing Booth Audience Member | Barry Johns | 26 | 4 Jan 1927 | 5 Feb 2008 | 81 | 1 | 1 | |
Boxing Booth Barker | Jim O'Brady | 46 | 13 May 1907 | 1 Jan 1991 | 83 | 18 | 18 | |
Boxing Match Sedond | Jack Sharp | 4 | 4 | |||||
Boxing Match Spectator | Fred Davis | 17 | 1 Sep 1936 | 26 Oct 1988 | 52 | 4 | 4 | |
Boxing Match Spectator | Jack Armstrong | 1 | 6 | 7 | ||||
Boxing Spectator | Billy Wilmot | 1 | 1 | |||||
Clumsy Dancer | Fred Machon | 3 | 3 | |||||
Dancing Restaurant Patron | Charles Hammond | 4 | 4 | |||||
Kossov’s Second | Ralph Moss | 1 | 1 | |||||
Lou Kossov | Joe Quigley | 1 | 1 | |||||
Pub Patron | Jimmy Charters | 7 | 7 | |||||
Tattooed Fighter | Tom Clegg | 18 | 16 Oct 1934 | 25 Jul 2016 | 81 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
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