The Glass Cage – 1955

A Hammer production released by Exclusive Films (UK) and Lippert Films (USA)
Copyright MCMLIV by Exclusive Films Ltd.
RCA Sound Recording
Produced at Bray Studios
Black & White 59 minutes
Storyline
Sapolio is the star of a funfair act called “The Starving Man”. His agent ‘Pel’ Pelham, arranges a new engagement for him and fixes a party to celebrate. But, as the guests gather, a murder is being committed in the flat upstairs. While the police investigate, Sapolio, who has now started his act, is tempted into eating a piece of poisoned ham fat!!!



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 | 55 | 26 Apr 1900 | 1970 | 69 | 22 | 22 | |
Assembly Cutter | Henry Richardson | 19 | 13 Jan 1936 | 31 Jul 2017 | 81 | 4 | 7 | 11 |
Ast. Director | Jack Causey | 41 | 1914 | 1977 | 63 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
Based on "The Outsiders" | A.E. Martin | 70 | 1885 | 1955 | 70 | 1 | 1 | |
Camera Operator | Noel Rowland | 48 | 1907 | 1996 | 88 | 1 | 1 | |
Conductor | John Hollingsworth | 39 | 20 Mar 1916 | 29 Dec 1963 | 47 | 36 | 2 | 38 |
Continuity | Margery Owens | 1 | 1 | |||||
Director | Montgomery Tully | 51 | 6 May 1904 | 10 Oct 1988 | 84 | 4 | 4 | |
Director of Photog. | Walter Harvey BSc | 52 | 9 Feb 1903 | 1979 | 75 | 34 | 34 | |
Editor | James Needs | 35 | 17 Oct 1919 | 4 Feb 2003 | 83 | 110 | 1 | 111 |
Hairdresser | Jean Bear | 1 | 1 | |||||
Make-up | H.E. Richmond | 1 | 1 | |||||
Music Composer | Leonard Salzedo | 33 | 24 Sep 1921 | 6 May 2000 | 78 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
Producer | Anthony Hinds | 32 | 18 Sep 1922 | 30 Sep 2013 | 91 | 84 | 1 | 85 |
Production Manager | T.S. Lyndon-Haynes | 42 | 17 Oct 1912 | 1972 | 59 | 3 | 3 | |
Recordist | H.C. Pearson | 48 | 17 Aug 1907 | May 2002 | 94 | 3 | 3 | |
Screenplay | Richard Landau | 41 | 21 Feb 1914 | 18 Sep 1993 | 79 | 8 | 8 | |
Uncredited | ||||||||
Boom Operator | Percy Britten | 35 | 1 Oct 1919 | 1996 | 76 | 21 | 21 | |
Clapper Loader | Ken McPherson | 1 | 1 | |||||
Focus Puller | Tom Friswell | 25 | 1930 | 2002 | 72 | 18 | 18 | |
Production Accountant | Lorna Selwyn | 47 | 1908 | 2002 | 94 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
Cast
Character | Actor | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | ||
Click a link for more info | Credited | Uncredited | Total | |||||
'Pel' Pelham | John Ireland | 41 | 30 Jan 1914 | 21 Mar 1992 | 78 | 1 | 1 | |
Bella | Valerie Vernon | 29 | 1 Jan 1926 | 30 Sep 1975 | 49 | 1 | 1 | |
Bertie | Ferdy Mayne | 39 | 11 Mar 1916 | 30 Jan 1998 | 81 | 4 | 4 | |
Estate Agent | Arthur Howard | 45 | 18 Jan 1910 | 18 Jun 1995 | 85 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
George | Sam Kydd | 40 | 15 Feb 1915 | 26 Mar 1982 | 67 | 7 | 7 | |
Jenny | Honor Blackman | 30 | 22 Aug 1925 | 5 Apr 2020 | 94 | 3 | 3 | |
Lindley | Liam Redmond | 42 | 27 Jul 1913 | 28 Oct 1989 | 76 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Marie Sapolio | Nora Gordon | 61 | 29 Nov 1893 | 11 May 1970 | 76 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
Mickelwitz | Stanley Little | 44 | 24 Oct 1910 | 2 Jan 2000 | 89 | 1 | 1 | |
Pop Marioni | Arnold Marle | 67 | 15 Sep 1887 | 21 Feb 1970 | 82 | 4 | 4 | |
Rena Maroni | Tonia Bern | 18 | 15 Nov 1936 | 14 Jun 2021 | 84 | 1 | 1 | |
Rourke | Sidney Tafler | 39 | 31 Jul 1916 | 8 Nov 1979 | 63 | 3 | 3 | |
Sapolio | Eric Pohlmann | 42 | 18 Jul 1913 | 25 Jul 1979 | 66 | 7 | 7 | |
Stanton | Geoffrey Keen | 39 | 21 Aug 1916 | 3 Nov 2005 | 89 | 4 | 4 | |
Tony Lewis | Sidney James | 42 | 8 May 1913 | 26 Apr 1976 | 62 | 7 | 7 | |
Uncredited | ||||||||
Cyril | Jack May | 3 | 3 | |||||
Detective in Tent | Richard Neller | 60 | 1 Oct 1894 | 14 Jul 1970 | 75 | 8 | 8 | |
Detective Sergeant | Fred Nicholas | 2 | 2 | |||||
Doctor | Bruce Beeby | 33 | 21 Oct 1921 | 20 Oct 2013 | 91 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Ivan the Terrible | Bernard Bresslaw | 21 | 25 Feb 1934 | 11 Jun 1993 | 59 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
Man Eating Sandwich | Ian Wilson | 54 | 2 Jul 1901 | Dec 1987 | 86 | 4 | 4 | 8 |
Man in Queue | Guy Standeven | Oct 1998 | 7 | 7 | ||||
Peter Pelham | Anthony Richmond | 1 | 1 | |||||
Spectator Outside Cage | Frank Williams | 24 | 2 Jul 1931 | 26 Jun 2022 | 90 | 2 | 2 | |
Spectator Talking to George | Dennis Wyndham | 68 | 15 Jan 1887 | 19 Aug 1973 | 86 | 1 | 1 | |
Woman with Child | Dandy Nichols | 48 | 21 May 1907 | 6 Feb 1986 | 78 | 1 | 1 |
Production
FILMING BEGAN | 1 November 1954 | |
UK RELEASE | 29 August 1955 | |
STUDIO | Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire, England |
Footnotes
Honor Blackman became famous for her roles as Cathy Gale in ABC TV’s “The Avengers” and as Pussy Galore in the James Bond film “Goldfinger” (1964). She also worked for Hammer in the featurette “Danger List” (1957) and in “To the Devil a Daughter” (1976).
Actress Tonia Bern was married to British world speed breaker Donald Malcolm Campbell until his death in 1967.
Uncredited here, Dandy Nichols went on to star as Alf Garnet’s long suffering wife, Else (silly old moo), in BBC TV’s comedy “Till Death us do Part”.
Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection