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 Productions | |||
| Click a link for more info | Credited | Uncredited | Total | ||||||
| Adapted from the story “Chance at the Wheel” | Victor Canning | 44 | 16 Jun 1911 | 21 Feb 1986 | 74 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Art Director | Ted Marshall | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Director | Joseph Losey | 47 | 14 Jan 1909 | 22 Jun 1984 | 75 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Director of Photography | Wilkie Cooper | 44 | 19 Oct 1911 | 15 Dec 2001 | 90 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Editor | Henry Richardson | 20 | 13 Jan 1936 | 31 Jul 2017 | 81 | 4 | 7 | 11 | |
| Hair Stylist | Monica Hustler | 30 | 1 Jan 1926 | 97 | 18 | 18 | |||
| Make-up | Phil Leakey | 47 | 4 May 1908 | 26 Nov 1992 | 84 | 48 | 48 | ||
| Music | John Hotchkis | 39 | 22 Nov 1916 | Jan 1996 | 79 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Producer | Anthony Hinds | 33 | 18 Sep 1922 | 30 Sep 2013 | 91 | 84 | 1 | 85 | |
| Production Supervisor | Mickey Delamar | 48 | 1908 | 1971 | 63 | 7 | 1 | 8 | |
| Screenplay | Jimmy Sangster | 28 | 2 Dec 1927 | 19 Aug 2011 | 83 | 65 | 2 | 67 | |
| Sound | Jock May | 51 | 1 Jan 1905 | 8 Jan 1991 | 86 | 30 | 1 | 31 | |
| Uncredited | |||||||||
| Boom Operator | Barry Copeland | 36 | 6 Aug 1919 | 1 Feb 2008 | 88 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Clapper Loader | Marc Hyams | 25 | 9 Sep 1930 | 92 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Focus Puller | Harry Oakes | 35 | 16 Jan 1921 | 11 Dec 2012 | 91 | 53 | 53 | ||
| Focus Puller | Brian West | 27 | 27 Apr 1928 | 94 | 8 | 1 | 9 | ||
| Production Secretary | Doreen Soan | 30 | 1 Jan 1926 | 97 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
Cast
| Character | Actor | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
| Click a link for more info | Credited | Uncredited | Total | ||||||
| Carter | Donald Wolfit | 53 | 20 Apr 1902 | 17 Feb 1968 | 65 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Casino Manager | Alex Gallier | 35 | 20 Mar 1921 | 9 Jun 1969 | 48 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Clement | Edward Forsyth | 52 | 28 Nov 1903 | 1979 | 75 | 1 | 1 | ||
| Driver | Michael Ripper | 43 | 27 Jan 1913 | 28 Jun 2000 | 87 | 34 | 2 | 36 | |
| Max | Michael Medwin | 32 | 18 Jul 1923 | 26 Feb 2020 | 79 | 6 | 6 | ||
| Uncredited | |||||||||
| American | Barry Shawzin | 26 | 21 Jun 1929 | 28 Mar 1968 | 79 | 2 | 2 | ||
| Blonde | Corinne Grey | 24 | 1932 | 91 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Little Girl | Shandra Walden | 13 | 1943 | 79 | 1 | 1 |
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