A Man on the Beach

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.

Production Details

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

Filming Began: 18th July 1955
UK Release: 26th March 1956

Studio:
Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire – Mediterranean casino

Locations:
Cliffs overlooking St Margaret’s Bay, Dover, Kent
Belgium

Stills from film

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Cast & Crew

Red = Uncredited


Crew	Name	Age at Release	Birth	Hidden	Death	Age	Hammer Credited	Hammer Uncredited	Total Hammer
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
Boom Operator	Barry Copeland	36	6 Aug 1919		1 Feb 2008	88		1	1
Clapper Loader	Marc Hyams	25	9 Sep 1930	9.09.1930		93		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
Focus Puller	Brian West	27	27 Apr 1928	27.04.1928		96	8	1	9
Focus Puller	Harry Oakes	35	16 Jan 1921		11 Dec 2012	91		53	53
Hair Stylist	Monica Hustler	30	21 Nov 1927	21.11.1927		96	18		18
Make-up	Phil Leakey	47	4 May 1908		26 Nov 1992	84	48		48
Music	John Hotchkis	39	22 Nov 1916		1 Jan 1996	79	1		1
Producer	Anthony Hinds	33	18 Sep 1922		30 Sep 2013	91	84	1	85
Production Secretary	Doreen Soan	30	01 Jan 1926	01.01.1926		98	3	3	6
Production Supervisor	Mickey Delamar	48	1 Jan 1908		1 Jan 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

Cast	Name	Age at Release	Birth	Hidden	Death	Age	Hammer Credited	Hammer Uncredited	Total Hammer
American	Barry Shawzin	26	21 Jun 1929		28 Mar 1968	38		2	2
Blonde	Corinne Grey	24	01 Jan 1932	01.01.1932		92		1	1
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		1 Jan 1979	75	1		1
Driver	Michael Ripper	43	27 Jan 1913		28 Jun 2000	87	34	2	36
Little Girl	Shandra Walden	13	01 Jan 1943	01.01.1943		81		1	1
Max	Michael Medwin	32	18 Jul 1923		26 Feb 2020	96	6		6

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.

1956 BBFC Cert. “U”

Production Details

Stills from film

Cast & Crew

Footnotes