Dick Barton at Bay (1950)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1950
Running Times: 68 mins
Length: 6,110 ft
Format: black and white 35mm
Ratio: 1.37:1
Sound: mono

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Marylebone / Hammer
Producer: Henry Halsted

STORY
Script: Jackson C. Budd, Ambrose Grayson, Emma Trechman
Radio Story: Ambrose Grayson (by arrangement with Ted Kavanagh Associated)

DIRECTION
Director: Godfrey Grayson
Assistant Director: Eric Veendam

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Stanley Clinton
Camera Operator: Jack Rose

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Max Brenner
Assembly Cutter: Dodo Elliot

MUSIC
Music: Rupert Grayson
Arranger / Conductor: Frank Spencer

SOUND
Sound Recordist: C. Hasher

COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
Make Up: Teddy Edwards
Hair: G. Hollis

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: J. Marchant

MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Prudence Sykes

CASTING
Casting Director: Edgar Blatt
Casting Manager: Mary Harris

CAST
Don Stannard (Dick Barton)
George Ford (Snowey White)
Tamara Desni (Anna)
Meinhart Maur (Serge Volkoff)
Percy Walsh (Professor Mitchell)
Joyce Linden (Mary Mitchell)
Campbell Singer (Inspector Cavendish)
John Arnatt (Jackson)
Richard George (Inspector Slade)
Beatrice Kane (Betsy Horrock)
Patrick McNee (Phillips)
George Crawford (Boris)
Paddy Ryan (Fingers)
Fred Owen (a gangster)
Yoshihide Yanai (Chang)
Ted Butterfield (Tommy)

PLOT SUMMARY

Dick Barton helps the police to find a scientist who has gone missing along with his latest invention, a powerful death ray.

UK
Theatrical Distributor: Exclusive Films

UK
Rating: U

1950
October
2: UK - theatrical release

Dick Barton and the Ray of Death - working title

SEQUEL TO
Dick Barton - Special Agent (1948)
Dick Barton Strikes Back (1949)

MAGAZINES

Dark Terrors no.9 (November 1994) p.34 (UK)
credits

Monthly Film Bulletin vol.17 no.202 (November 1950) p.171 (UK)
credits, synopsis, review

Today's Cinema vol.75 no.6087 (22 September 1950) p.8 (UK)
credits, review (by C.A.W.)

sequels; scientists; police; death rays