Women Without Men -1956

A Hammer production released by Exclusive Films RCA Sound Recording
Made at Bray Studios
Black & White 68 mins
Storyline
Convict Angie Booth is desperate. Before being sentenced, she made a tryst with her merchant seaman lover Nick to meet him at a set time and place. When her request for temporary parole is turned down by the prison governor, she plans to escape along with a group of other inmates.
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Crew
Function | Credited | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
Click a Link for more info | Credited | Uncredited | Total | ||||||
Assistant Director | Bill Shore | 5 | 2 | 7 | |||||
Camera Operator | Len Harris | 40 | 19 May 1916 | 21 Feb 1995 | 78 | 52 | 1 | 53 | |
Director | Elmo Williams | 43 | 30 Apr 1913 | 25 Nov 2015 | 102 | 1 | 1 | ||
Director of Photography | Walter Harvey BSc | 53 | 9 Feb 1903 | 1979 | 75 | 34 | 34 | ||
Editor | James Needs | 36 | 17 Oct 1919 | 4 Feb 2003 | 83 | 110 | 1 | 111 | |
Hair Stylist | Monica Hustler | 30 | 1 Jan 1926 | 97 | 18 | 18 | |||
Lyric | Lorraine Williams | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Make-up | Phil Leakey | 48 | 4 May 1908 | 26 Nov 1992 | 84 | 48 | 48 | ||
Music Composer | Leonard Salzedo | 34 | 24 Sep 1921 | 6 May 2000 | 78 | 7 | 1 | 8 | |
Musical Director | John Hollingsworth | 40 | 20 Mar 1916 | 29 Dec 1963 | 47 | 36 | 2 | 38 | |
Original Story | Richard Landau | 42 | 21 Feb 1914 | 18 Sep 1993 | 79 | 8 | 8 | ||
Producer | Anthony Hinds | 33 | 18 Sep 1922 | 30 Sep 2013 | 91 | 84 | 1 | 85 | |
Production Manager | Jimmy Sangster | 28 | 2 Dec 1927 | 19 Aug 2011 | 83 | 65 | 2 | 67 | |
Song “Long Ago Guy” | Douglas Gamley | 31 | 24 Sep 1924 | 5 Feb 1998 | 73 | 3 | 3 | ||
Sound | Bill Sweeney | 2 | 2 | ||||||
Wardrobe | Molly Arbuthnot | 47 | 19 Dec 1908 | 31 Oct 2001 | 92 | 48 | 4 | 52 |
Cast
Character | Actor | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Productions | |||
Click a Link for more info | Credited | Uncredited | Total | ||||||
Angie Booth | Beverley Michaels | 27 | 28 Dec 1928 | 9 Jun 2007 | 78 | 1 | 1 | ||
Bargee | Michael Golden | 42 | 15 Aug 1913 | 1 Jan 1983 | 69 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
Bates | Sheala Burrell | 34 | 9 May 1922 | 19 Jul 2011 | 89 | 5 | 5 | ||
Bessie | Avril Angers | 38 | 18 Apr 1918 | 8 Nov 2005 | 87 | 1 | 1 | ||
Chief Marton Evans | Betty Cooper | 46 | 1 May 1910 | 3 Feb 1979 | 68 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
Cleo | Joan Rice | 26 | 3 Feb 1930 | 1 Jan 1997 | 66 | 2 | 2 | ||
Daniels | Maurice Kaufmann | 28 | 29 Jun 1927 | 21 Sep 1997 | 70 | 4 | 4 | ||
Grace | Hermione Baddeley | 49 | 13 Nov 1906 | 19 Aug 1986 | 79 | 2 | 2 | ||
Granny | Thora Hird | 45 | 28 May 1911 | 15 Mar 2003 | 91 | 4 | 4 | ||
Hackett | Olwen Brookes | 54 | 26 Nov 1901 | 17 Sep 1976 | 74 | 1 | 1 | ||
Julian | Ralph Michael | 48 | 26 Sep 1907 | 9 Nov 1994 | 87 | 1 | 1 | ||
Lindbergh | Bill Shine | 44 | 20 Oct 1911 | 24 Jul 1997 | 85 | 2 | 2 | ||
Marguerite | April Olrich | 22 | 17 Jul 1933 | 15 Apr 2014 | 80 | 1 | 1 | ||
Nick | Paul Carpenter | 34 | 8 Dec 1921 | 12 Jun 1964 | 42 | 5 | 5 | ||
Percy | Gordon Jackson | 32 | 19 Dec 1923 | 15 Jan 1990 | 66 | 3 | 3 | ||
Pierre | Eugene Deckers | 42 | 22 Oct 1913 | 13 Jul 1977 | 63 | 2 | 2 | ||
Prison Chaplin | John Welsh | 41 | 7 Nov 1914 | 21 Apr 1985 | 70 | 5 | 5 | ||
Prison Governess | Valerie White | 40 | 26 Dec 1915 | 3 Dec 1975 | 59 | 1 | 1 | ||
Warder | David Lodge | 34 | 19 Aug 1921 | 18 Oct 2003 | 82 | 10 | 10 | ||
Uncredited | |||||||||
Bargekeeper | Michael Golden | 42 | 15 Aug 1913 | 1983 | 69 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
Barrowman | Verne Morgan | 55 | 19 Dec 1900 | 23 Apr 1984 | 83 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
Brooker | Fanny Carby | 31 | 2 Feb 1925 | 20 Sep 2002 | 77 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
Caroller | Joan Harrison | 48 | 26 Jun 1907 | 14 Aug 1994 | 87 | 13 | 1 | 14 | |
Caroller | Edna Landor | 32 | 1924 | 3 Sep 2015 | 91 | 1 | 1 | ||
Caroller | Pat Edwards | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Caroller | H. Westwater | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Civilian | Anthony Miles | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
Guard | Irene Richmond | 44 | 15 Nov 1911 | 24 May 2009 | 97 | 2 | 2 | ||
Helen | Muriel Young | 19 Jun 1923 | 24 Mar 2001 | 77 | 1 | 1 | |||
Hennessy | Margaret Flint | 31 | 13 Sep 1924 | 3 Jul 1993 | 68 | 1 | 1 | ||
Inmate | Anne Loxley | 26 | 7 Jun 1930 | 92 | 1 | 1 | |||
Inmate | Mona Lilian | 44 | 27 Nov 1911 | 1 Apr 1997 | 85 | 1 | 1 | ||
Laverne | Pauline Winter | 39 | 12 Mar 1917 | 9 Feb 2015 | 97 | 1 | 1 | ||
Loveland | Doris Gilmore | 53 | 29 Oct 1902 | 19 Sep 1986 | 83 | 1 | 1 | ||
Man at Doorway | Charles Saynor | 53 | 12 Dec 1902 | 6 May 1979 | 76 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
Mason | Yvonne Manners | 37 | 17 Jun 1918 | 15 Jun 2001 | 82 | 1 | 1 | ||
Operator | Mark Kingston | 22 | 18 Apr 1934 | 9 Oct 2011 | 77 | 1 | 1 | ||
Policeman | George Roderick | 42 | 9 Oct 1913 | 10 Mar 1976 | 62 | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
Policeman | Thomas Glen | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Reveller | Douglas Argent | 35 | 21 May 1921 | 30 Oct 2010 | 89 | 1 | 1 | ||
Reveller | Sidney Brahms | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Reveller | Stratford Johns | 30 | 22 Sep 1925 | 29 Jan 2002 | 76 | 1 | 1 | ||
Scrubber | Babs Love | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Scrubber | Toots Pounds | 58 | 17 Nov 1897 | 7 Jan 1976 | 78 | 2 | 2 | ||
Scrubber | Vi Stevens | 64 | 28 Nov 1891 | 20 Mar 1967 | 75 | 1 | 1 |
Production
FILMING BEGAN | 1 January 1955 | |
UK RELEASE | 14 June 1956 | |
STUDIO | Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire, England |
Footnotes
American director Elmo Williams was much better known as a Film Editor. He also co-produced the 1962 epic about the D-Day landings, “The Longest Day”.
Uncredited Muriel Young was a popular presenter for ITV children’s programmes between 1959 and 1968.
Uncredited Stratford Johns played Inspector Barlow in BBC TV’s long running police series “Z Cars”.
Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection