A Man on the Beach – 1956

A Hammer production released by Exclusive Films
Copyright MCMLV by Exclusive Films
RCA Sound Recording
Produced at Bray Studios
Eastmancolour by Humphries Laboratories 27 minutes featurette
Unspecified Panamorphic, wide-screen process
Storyline
With the help of his driver, a criminal pulls off a daring robbery at a casino in the South of France, then double-crosses and kills him. In the struggle, he is shot and wounded. Stumbling along the shore in agony, he takes refuge in a lonely beach house, where, he finds to his cost, that the owner has a trick or two up his sleeve.
Crew
Function | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits |
Adapted from the story “Chance at the Wheel” by | Victor Canning | 44 | 16 Jan 1911 | 21 Feb 1986 | 75 | 1 |
Art Director | Ted Marshall | 1 | ||||
Directed by | Joseph Losey | 46 | 14 Jan 1909 | 22 Jun 1984 | 75 | 2 |
Director of Photography | Wilkie Cooper | 44 | 19 Oct 1911 | 15 Dec 2001 | 90 | 1 |
Editor | Henry Richardson | 19 | 13 Jan 1936 | 31 Jul 2017 | 81 | 4 |
Hair Stylist | Monica Hustler | 30 | 1926 | Living | 95 | 18 |
Make-up | Phil Leakey | 47 | 4 May 1908 | 26 Nov 1992 | 84 | 48 |
Music by | John Hotchkis | 39 | 22 Nov 1916 | 1 Jan 1996 | 79 | 1 |
Produced by | Anthony Hinds | 33 | 18 Sep 1922 | 30 Sep 2013 | 91 | 84 |
Production Supervisor | Mickey Delamar | 48 | 1908 | 1971 | 63 | 7 |
Screenplay by | Jimmy Sangster | 28 | 2 Dec 1927 | 19 Aug 2011 | 83 | 65 |
Sound | W.H. May | 51 | 1905 | 8 Jan 1991 | 86 | 1 |
Cast
Character | Actor | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Appearances |
Carter | Donald Wolfit | 53 | 20 Apr 1902 | 17 Feb 1968 | 65 | 1 |
Casino Manager | Alex Gallier | 34 | 20 Mar 1912 | 9 Jun 1969 | 57 | 2 |
Clement | Edward Forsyth | 52 | 28 Nov 1903 | 1979 | 75 | 1 |
Driver | Michael Ripper | 42 | 27 Jan 1913 | 28 Jun 2000 | 87 | 34 |
Max | Michael Medwin | 32 | 18 Jul 1923 | 26 Feb 2020 | 96 | 6 |
Footnotes
Director Joseph Losey worked for Hammer again on “The Damned” (1961), but his more famous films were made elsewhere and include “The Servant” (1963), “Modesty Blaise” (1966), “Accident” (1967) and “The Go-Between” (1971). He died in 1984.
Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection