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 Credits
Art Director	J. Elder Wills	53	26 Apr 1900	1970	69	22
Assistant Director	Jimmy Sangster	26	2 Dec 1927	19 Aug 2011	83	65
Camera Operator	Len Harris	37	19 May 1916	21 Feb 1995	78	52
Continuity	Splinters Deason	41	1 Jan 1913	11 Oct 2001	88	3
Directed by	Montgomery Tully	49	6 May 1904	10 Oct 1988	84	4
Director of Photography	Walter Harvey Bsc	50	9 Feb 1903	1979	75	34
Editor	James Needs	34	17 Oct 1919	2003	83	110
Hairdresser	Nina Broe			1993		10
Make-up	Phil Leakey	45	4 May 1908	26 Nov 1992	84	48
Musical Director	Ivor Slaney	32	27 May 1921	20 Mar 1998	76	11
Original Screenplay by	Paul Tabori	45	8 May 1908	9 Nov 1974	66	6
Produced by	Anthony Hinds	31	18 Sep 1922	30 Sep 2013	91	84
Production Manager	John (Pinky) Green	44	14 Feb 1909	1 Jul 1978	69	7
Recordist	Bill Salter					17

Cast


Character	Actor	Age at Release	Birth		Death	Age	Hammer Appearances
Andrea Nevill	Thea Gregory	25	1926	01.01.1926		96	1
Bill	Charles Hawtrey	39	30 Nov 1914		27 Oct 1988	73	3
Cyrus McGowan	Howard Marion-Crawford	39	17 Jan 1914		24 Nov 1969	55	1
Glanville	Anthony Forwood	38	3 Oct 1915		18 May 1988	72	6
Highson	Arthur Young	55	2 Sep 1898		14 Feb 1959	60	1
James Nevill	Dane Clark	41	18 Feb 1912		11 Sep 1998	86	3
Jan	Cecile Chevreau	36	1 Apr 1917		1 Jan 1993	75	2
Paul Kirby	Paul Carpenter	32	8 Dec 1921		12 Jun 1964	42	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