Don’t Panic Chaps – 1959

Hammer A.C.T Films
MPAA Approved Certificate No. 19389
Copyright Hammer A.C.T. Films All rights reserved

Adapted from the original radio play by Ronald George Holroyd and Michael George Corston

Western Electric Recording
A Hammerscope Production
Made at Walton Studios, Walton-on-Thames, England
RCA Sound Recording
Black & White 85 minutes

Storyline

During World War II, a pair of observation teams, German and British, are left on a remote Adriatic island, then forgotten. The two sides call a truce and live harmoniously; that is until beautiful Elsa is cast ashore and war breaks out anew.

Crew


Function	Credited	Age at Release	Birth		Death	Age	Hammer Productions
							Credited	Uncredited	Total
Art Director	Scott MacGregor	45	22 Oct 1914		1971	56	14	1	15
Ast. Director	Douglas Hermes	36	28 Jun 1923		1981	57	6		6
Camera Operator	Eric Besche	45	20 May 1914		17 Apr 1983	68	2		2
Continuity	Beryl Booth	35	1 Jan 1924	01.01.1924		99	2		2
Director	George Pollock	52	27 Mar 1907		22 Dec 1979	72	1		1
Editor	Harry Aldous						1		1
Hairdresser	Joyce James						2		2
Lighting Camerman	Arthur Graham	45	12 Mar 1914		Dec 2006	92	1		1
Make-up	Peter Armsten	43	23 Mar 1916		10 May 1984	68	1		1
Music Composed & Conducted by	Philip Green	48	18 Jul 1911		6 Oct 1982	71	1	1	2
Producer	Teddy Baird	58	9 Sep 1901		23 Mar 1975	73	1		1
Production Manager	Clifford Parkes	32	1927		2014	87	12		12
Production Supervisor	Ralph Bond	55	5 Dec 1904		29 Aug 1989	84	1		1
Sound Recordist	Sid Wiles	60	2 Feb 1899		Jul 1973	74	6		6
Wardrobe Mistress	Maude Churchill						2		2
Uncredited
Second Ast. Director	Joe Marks	30	6 Feb 1929		20 Oct 2019	90		6	6

Cast


Character	Actor	Age at Release	Birth	Death	Age	Hammer Productions
						Credited	Uncredited	Total
Ackroyd	Harry Fowler	33	10 Dec 1926	4 Jan 2012	85	3		3
Babbington	Terence Alexander	36	11 Mar 1923	28 May 2009	86	2		2
Bolter	Percy Herbert	39	31 Jul 1920	6 Dec 1992	72	6		6
Brown	Thorley Walters	46	12 May 1913	6 Jul 1991	78	6		6
Elsa	Nadja Regin	28	2 Dec 1931	6 Apr 2019	87	1		1
Finch	George Cole	34	22 Apr 1925	5 Aug 2015	90	2		2
Krisling	Dennis Price	44	23 Jun 1915	6 Oct 1973	58	5		5
Meister	George Murcell	34	30 Oct 1925	3 Dec 1998	73	1	1	2
Mortimer	Nicholas Phipps	46	23 Jun 1913	11 Apr 1980	66	2		2
Schmidt	Gertan Klauber	27	5 Mar 1932	1 Aug 2008	76	1		1
Voss	Thomas Foulkes					1		1

Production


FILMING BEGAN	1 June 1959
UK RELEASE	21 December 1959
STUDIO	Walton Studios, Walton on Thames, Surrey

Footnotes

Originally called Carry On Chaps, the title was changed following the success of the “Carry On” series.

Terence Alexander was best known for his role as Charlie Hungerford in the BBC TV drama “Bergerac”, which ran for nine series from 1981.

Harry Fowler, a prolific character actor, is known for “The Pickwick Papers” (1952), “Hue and Cry” (1947) and “Went the Day Well?” (1942). His first wife, actress Joan Dowling, took her own life by gas poisoning at the age of 26.

Details were complied viewing the actual film.
Source of viewing copy – The Hammer Graveyard Collection