Dick Barton - Special Agent [1948]
Country
of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1948
Running Times: 70 mins
Length: 6242 ft
Format: black and white 35mm
Ratio: 1.37:1
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Hammer / Marylebone
Producer: Henry Halstead
SCRIPT
Script: Alfred Goulding, Alan Stranks
DIRECTION
Director: Alfred Goulding
Assistant Director: Eric Veendam
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Stanley Clinton
EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Etta Simpson
MUSIC
Music Director: John Bath
SOUND
Sound: Charles Hasher
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: James Marchant
MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Doreen Saunders
LOCATIONS
Locations: Marylebone Studios, London, England, UK; Birdham Pool,
Chichester Harbour, England, UK
CASTING
Casting Manager: Mary Harris
Casting Director: Edgar Blatt
CAST
Don Stannard [Dick Barton]
George Ford [Snowey]
Gillian Maude [Jean]
Jack Shaw [Jock Anderson]
Beatrice Kane [Mrs Horrock]
Ivor Danvers [Snub]
Geoffrey Wincott [Dr Casper]
Arthur Bush [Schuler]
Campbell Singer [Sir George]
Alec Ross [Tony]
Farnham Baxter [Roscoe]
Morris Sweden [Regan]
Ernest Borrow [Gilpin]
Colin Douglas
Janice Lowthian
SUMMARY
Foreign agents are
planning an attack on Britain by using germ warfare
weapons in drinking water reservoirs. The only man who
can save the nation from devastation is Dick Barton -
Special Agent.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Theatrical Distributor: Exclusive Films
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
UK
Rating: U
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Dick Barton, Detective -
US TV title
Dick Barton - Geheimagent - German title
LINKS
LINKS
Dick Barton Strikes Back [1949]
Dick Barton at Bay [1950]
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Dark Terrors no.9
[November 1994] p.34 [UK]
credits
Kinematograph Weekly no.2131
[4 March 1948] [UK]
review
Monthly Film Bulletin vol.15
no.172 [April 1948] p.46 [UK]
credits, synopsis, review
Today's Cinema vol.70
no.5618 [5 March 1948] p.9 [UK]
credits, review [by C.A.W.]
KEYWORDS
germ warfare; spies
