Five Days – 1954

A Hammer production released by Exclusive Films (UK) and Lippert Films (USA)
Copyright MCMLIV by Exclusive Films Ltd.
RCA Sound System
Produced at Bray Studios
Black & White 72 minutes

Storyline

When a financial deal arranged by cavalier businessman James Nevill falls through, he faces ruin. Seeing no future for himself, he decides that the least he can do is make sure his wife is well looked after, so he blackmails an old, and shady, acquaintance into killing him; she will then be able to claim against his insurance. The murder is to take place within the next five days, but then the original business deal comes up trumps and he is financially saved. His relief is short-lived, though, when he cannot call off his proposed killer and the attempts on his life begin…

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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	37	19 May 1916	21 Feb 1995	78	52	1	53
Continuity	Splinters Deason	41	1 Jan 1913	11 Oct 2001	88	3		3
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	34	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
Musical Director	Ivor Slaney	32	27 May 1921	20 Mar 1998	76	11	1	12
Original Screenplay	Paul Tabori	46	8 May 1908	9 Nov 1974	66	6	1	7
Producer	Anthony Hinds	31	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
Boom Operator	Percy Britten	34	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
Special Photographic Effects	Vic Margutti	41	1913	1980	66		6	6
Still Photog.	John Jay	33	14 Nov 1920	29 Apr 2005	84	13	22	35
Stunts	Peter Diamond	24	10 Aug 1929	27 Mar 2004	74	4	23	27
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
						Credited	Uncredited	Total
Andrea Nevill	Thea Gregory	28	1 Jan 1926	18 Dec 2022	96	1		1
Bill	Charles Hawtrey	39	30 Nov 1914	27 Oct 1988	73	3		3
Cyrus McGowan	Howard Marion-Crawford	40	17 Jan 1914	24 Nov 1969	55	1		1
Glanville	Anthony Forwood	38	3 Oct 1915	18 May 1988	72	6		6
Highson	Arthur Young	55	2 Sep 1898	14 Feb 1959	60	1		1
James Nevill	Dane Clark	42	18 Feb 1912	11 Sep 1998	86	3		3
Jan	Cecile Chevreau	37	1 Apr 1917	1993	75	2		2
Paul Kirby	Paul Carpenter	32	8 Dec 1921	12 Jun 1964	42	5		5
Uncredited
Bowman	Peter Gawthorne	69	1 Sep 1884	17 Mar 1962	77		1	1
Chapter	Geoffrey Sumner	45	20 Nov 1908	29 Sep 1989	80	2	1	3
Eileen	Avis Scott	36	22 Feb 1918	31 May 2010	92	1	1	2
Grover - Masseur	Martin Lawrence					1	1	2
Hunter	Leslie Wright						2	2
Ingham	Ross Hutchinson	49	6 Apr 1905	Jan 1986	80		1	1
Laughing Man in Bar	Warren Mitchell	28	14 Jan 1926	14 Nov 2015	89	4	1	5
Perkins	Arnold Diamond	39	18 Apr 1915	18 Mar 1992	76	4	2	6
Professor	Hugo Schuster	67	22 Nov 1886	10 Jul 1976	89		1	1
Tough in Bar	Laurie Taylor	35	13 Jul 1918	6 Aug 2003	85	2	3	5

Production


FILMING BEGAN	1 November 1953
UK RELEASE	12 May 1954
STUDIO	Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire, England

Footnotes

Unusually, Howard Marion Crawford plays a Scot in this film. He is more familiar as the archetypal stiff-upper-lipped English officer and gentleman, as in “Lawrence of Arabia” (1962) and as Dr Petrie (Scotland Yard Commissioner Nayland Smith’s trusty sidekick) in all five of the “Fu Manchu” films starring Christopher Lee.

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