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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
COSTUMES AND MAKE-UP
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
PLOT 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:
1 January, 2009
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