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Dick Barton Strikes Back [1949]
Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1949
Running Times: 73 mins
Length: 6,541 ft
Format: black and white 35mm
Ratio: 1.37:1
Sound: mono
CREDITS
PRODUCTION
Production Company: Hammer Film Productions Limited
Associate Producer: Mae Murray
Assistant Producer: Anthony
Hinds
Production Manager: Don Wynne
SCRIPT
Script: Elizabeth Baron, Ambrose Grayson
Story: Ambrose Grayson
DIRECTION
Director: Godfrey Grayson
Assistant Director: Dicky Leeman
2nd Assistant Director: Jimmy Sangster
PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Cedric Williams
Camera Operator: Peter Newbrook
Clapper: Neil Binney
Focus: Gerry Turpin
Supervising Electrician: Jack Curtis
EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Supervising Editor: Ray Pitt
MUSIC
Music: Rupert Grayson, Frank Spencer
MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Jack Smith
DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Art Director: Ivan King
MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Prudence Sykes
LOCATIONS
Locations: Viking Studios, England, UK; Blackpool, Lancashire, England,
UK; Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK; Pinner, England, UK
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks To: The Tower, Blackpool; American Overseas Airways; KLM Airways;
The South London Electricity Board; The London Zoo
CASTING
Casting Manager: Mary Harris
Casting Director: Edgar Blatt [Ted Kavanagh Associated]
CAST
Don Stannard [Dick Barton]
Sebastian Cabot [Alfonso Delmonte Fourcada]
Jean Lodge [Tina]
James Raglan [Lord Sir James A. Armadale]
Bruce Walker [Snowey White]
Humphrey Kent [Colonel Gardner]
John Harvey [Major Henderson]
Morris Sweden [Agent Robert Creston]
Tony Morelli [Nicholas, thug with accordion]
George Crawford [Alex, a gunman]
Sidney Vivian [Inspector Burke]
Jimmy O'Dea
Laurie Taylor [Nick]
Schulman
Flash
SUMMARY
When a ruthless gang steals vital nuclear weapons technology, Dick
Barton is called in to try to retrieve it.
AVAILABILITY
UK
Theatrical Distributor: Exclusive Films
CENSORSHIP HISTORY
UK
Rating: U
TIMELINE
1951
January
8: Sweden - theatrical release
ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Dick Barton and the Silent Plague - working
title
Dick Barton - Geheimwelle 505 - German title
LINKS
SEQUEL TO
Dick Barton - Special Agent
[1948]
SEQUEL
Dick Barton at Bay
[1950]
REFERENCES
MAGAZINES
Dark Terrors no.9 [November 1994] p.34
[UK]
credits
The Film User vol.6 no.63 [January 1952]
p.31 [UK]
credits, review
Monthly Film Bulletin vol.16 no.184 [April
1949] p.59 [UK]
credits, synopsis, review
Today's Cinema vol.72 no.5776 [11 March
1949] p.8 [UK]
review [by C.A.W.]
KEYWORDS
nuclear weapons, secret agents
Last Updated:
6 March, 2007
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