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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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