Break in the Circle

Opening title:- “East-West German Frontier”; a Polish scientist escapes to West Germany. Then, Cornish smuggler Skip Morgan is hired to help him escape the communist agents pursuing him. But Morgan has more than just the communists to deal with – he also has to contend with the unwelcome attentions of Special Branch, at the same time trying to thwart the double-crossing ambitions of his employer, Baron Keller…

Production Details

A Hammer Film production released by Exclusive Films (UK) Twentieth Century-Fox (USA)
Copyright MCMLIV by Exclusive Films Ltd.
RCA Sound Recording
Produced at Bray Studios, England

Eastman Colour by Denham Laboratories 91 mins

Filming Began: 31st May 1954
UK Release: 28th February 1955

Studio:
Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire

Locations:
London
Polperro, Cornwall
Hamburg, Germany

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
Art Director	J. Elder Wills	54	26 Apr 1900		1 Jan 1970	69	22		22
Assistant Director	Bill Shore						5	2	7
Assistant Editor	Spencer Reeve	31	10 Dec 1923		15 Dec 1975	52	8	2	10
Associate Producer	Mickey Delamar	47	1 Jan 1908		1 Jan 1971	63	7	1	8
Boom Operator	Percy Britten	35	1 Oct 1919		1 Jan 1996	76		21	21
Camera Operator	Len Harris	38	19 May 1916		21 Feb 1995	78	52	1	53
Clapper Loader	Tom Friswell	25	1 Jan 1930		1 Jan 2002	72		18	18
Continuity	Connie Willis	31	1 Jan 1924		1 Jan 1992	68	2		2
Director	Val Guest	43	11 Dec 1911		10 May 2006	94	29		29
Director of Photography	Walter Harvey BSc	52	9 Feb 1903		1 Jan 1979	75	34		34
Dubbing Editor	Dino di Campo	34	5 May 1920		1 Jan 2005	84	1		1
Editor	Bill Lenny	27	1 Jan 1928		1 Jan 2002	74	10	2	12
Focus Puller	Harry Oakes	34	16 Jan 1921		11 Dec 2012	91		53	53
Hairdresser	Monica Hustler	29	21 Nov 1927	21.11.1927		96	18		18
Make-up	Phil Leakey	46	4 May 1908		26 Nov 1992	84	48		48
Music Composer	Doreen Carwithen	32	15 Nov 1922		5 Jan 2003	80	3		3
Musical Director	John Hollingsworth	38	20 Mar 1916		29 Dec 1963	47	36	2	38
Novel by	Philip Lorraine	34	11 May 1920		24 Oct 2002	82	1		1
Producer	Michael Carreras	27	21 Dec 1927		19 Apr 1994	66	82	5	87
Production Manager	Jimmy Sangster	27	2 Dec 1927		19 Aug 2011	83	65	2	67
Screenplay	Val Guest	43	11 Dec 1911		10 May 2006	94	29		29
Second Assistant Director	Aida Young	34	11 Aug 1920		12 Aug 2007	87	8	6	14
Second Assistant Editor	Michael Hart							2	2
Sound Camera Operator	Don Alton	41	1 Jan 1914		18 Jan 1987	73		9	9
Sound Maintenance	J. Woodiwiss	45	14 Jun 1909		1 Jan 1987	77		1	1
Sound Recording	H.C. Pearson	47	17 Aug 1907		1 May 2002	94	3		3
Sound Recording	Ken Cameron	39	1 Dec 1915		8 Aug 2000	84	8	2	10
Still Photographer	John Jay	34	14 Nov 1920		29 Apr 2005	84	13	22	35
Third Assistant Director	David Guest							1	1
Wardrobe Mistress	Molly Arbuthnot	46	19 Dec 1908		31 Oct 2001	92	48	4	52

Cast	Name	Age at Release	Birth	Hidden	Death	Age	Hammer Credited	Hammer Uncredited	Total Hammer
1st Russian	Andre Mikhelson	52	01 Jan 1903				1	1	2
2nd Russian	Stanley Zevic						1		1
3rd Russian	Marne Maitland	40	18 Dec 1914		1 Mar 1992	77	8		8
Baron Keller	Marius Goring	42	23 May 1912		30 Sep 1998	86	3		3
Bert	Arthur Lovegrove	41	15 Jul 1913		7 Nov 1981	68	3	6	9
Butler	Derek Prentice	50	29 Mar 1904		19 Apr 1977	73	1		1
Dusty	Reginald Beckwith	46	2 Nov 1908		26 Jun 1965	56	6		6
Emile	Eric Pohlmann	41	18 Jul 1913		25 Jul 1979	66	7		7
Farquarson	Fred Johnson	55	6 Aug 1899		4 Dec 1971	72	6	2	8
Franz	Guido Lorraine	42	2 Sep 1912		31 Dec 2009	97	1		1
Hobart	Guy Middleton	48	14 Dec 1906		30 Jul 1973	66	2		2
Kudnic	Arnold Marle	67	15 Sep 1887		21 Feb 1970	82	4		4
Lisa	Eva Bartok	27	18 Jun 1927		1 Aug 1998	71	2		2
Patchway	David King-Wood	41	12 Sep 1913		3 Sep 2003	89	4		4
Skip Morgan	Forrest Tucker	36	12 Feb 1919		25 Oct 1986	67	2		2

Original Poster

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Footnotes

Forrest Tucker moved on to sci-fi/fantasy after this film, appearing in “The Trollenberg Terror” (1956), “The Abominable Snowman” (for Hammer, 1957) and “The Strange World of Planet X” (1957).

Elderly actor Arnold Marle had already worked for Hammer in “The Glass Cage” (1954). He had more substantial roles for them as the Lhama in “The Abominable Snowman” (1957) and as Anton Diffring’s non-rejuvenating partner in “The Man Who Could Cheat Death” (1959).

Triumph TR2

Hammer Graveyard features the Triumph TR2 used in the film