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	01.01.1926		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

Production


FILMING BEGAN	18 July 1955
UK RELEASE	26 March 1958
STUDIO	Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire, England	Mediterranean casino
LOCATION	Cliffs overlooking St Margaret's Bay, Dover, Kent, England
	Belgium

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