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 Credits |
Assistant Director | Bill Shore | 5 | ||||
Camera Operator | Len Harris | 39 | 19 May 1916 | 21 Feb 1995 | 78 | 52 |
Directed by | Elmo Williams | 42 | 30 Apr 1913 | 25 Nov 2015 | 102 | 1 |
Director of Photography | Walter Harvey BSc | 52 | 9 Feb 1903 | 1979 | 75 | 33 |
Editor | James Needs | 36 | 17 Oct 1919 | 2003 | 83 | 111 |
Hair Stylist | Monica Hustler | 30 | 1926 | Living | 95 | 18 |
Lyric by | Lorraine Williams | 1 | ||||
Make-up | Phil Leakey | 47 | 4 May 1908 | 26 Nov 1992 | 84 | 48 |
Music Composed by | Leonard Salzedo | 34 | 24 Sep 1921 | 6 May 2000 | 78 | 7 |
Musical Director | John Hollingsworth | 39 | 20 Mar 1916 | 29 Dec 1963 | 47 | 36 |
Original Story | Richard Landau | 41 | 21 Feb 1914 | 18 Sep 1993 | 79 | 8 |
Produced by | Anthony Hinds | 33 | 18 Sep 1922 | 30 Sep 2013 | 91 | 84 |
Production Manager | Jimmy Sangster | 28 | 2 Dec 1927 | 19 Aug 2011 | 83 | 65 |
Song “Long Ago Guy” by | Douglas Gamley | 31 | 24 Sep 1924 | 5 Feb 1998 | 73 | 3 |
Sound | Bill Sweeney | 2 | ||||
Wardrobe | Molly Arbuthnot | 47 | 19 Dec 1908 | 1 Nov 2001 | 92 | 48 |
Cast
Character | Actor | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Appearances |
Angie Booth | Beverley Michaels | 27 | 28 Dec 1928 | 9 Jun 2007 | 78 | 1 |
Bargee | Michael Golden | 42 | 15 Aug 1913 | 1983 | 69 | 3 |
Bates | Sheila Burrell | 33 | 9 May 1922 | 19 Jul 2011 | 89 | 5 |
Bessie | Avril Angers | 37 | 18 Apr 1918 | 8 Nov 2005 | 87 | 1 |
Chief Marton Evans | Betty Cooper | 45 | 1 May 1910 | 3 Feb 1979 | 68 | 3 |
Cleo | Joan Rice | 25 | 3 Feb 1930 | 1 Jan 1997 | 66 | 2 |
Daniels | Maurice Kaufmann | 28 | 29 Jun 1927 | 21 Sep 1997 | 70 | 4 |
Grace | Hermione Baddeley | 49 | 13 Nov 1906 | 19 Aug 1986 | 79 | 2 |
Granny | Thora Hird | 44 | 28 May 1911 | 15 Mar 2003 | 91 | 4 |
Hackett | Olwen Brookes | 54 | 26 Nov 1901 | 17 Sep 1976 | 74 | 1 |
Julian | Ralph Michael | 48 | 26 Sep 1907 | 9 Nov 1994 | 87 | 1 |
Lindbergh | Bill Shine | 44 | 20 Oct 1911 | 24 Jul 1997 | 85 | 2 |
Marguerite | April Olrich | 22 | 17 Jul 1933 | 15 Apr 2014 | 80 | 1 |
Nick | Paul Carpenter | 34 | 8 Dec 1921 | 12 Jun 1964 | 42 | 5 |
Percy | Gordon Jackson | 32 | 19 Dec 1923 | 15 Jan 1990 | 66 | 3 |
Pierre | Eugene Deckers | 42 | 22 Oct 1913 | 1977 | 63 | 2 |
Prison Chaplin | John Welsh | 41 | 7 Nov 1914 | 21 Apr 1985 | 70 | 5 |
Prison Governess | Valerie White | 40 | 26 Dec 1915 | 3 Dec 1975 | 59 | 1 |
Warder | David Lodge | 34 | 19 Aug 1921 | 18 Oct 2003 | 82 | 10 |
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”.
Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection