Someone at the Door

A knockabout crime comedy, in which, in order to enhance his reputation, a struggling journalist cooks up a hare-brained scheme to make it look as though he has murdered his sister – for just long enough to get a big story out of it. Unfortunately, however, things start to go badly wrong when a gang of real crooks appear on the scene!

Trailer by The Hammer Graveyard

Production Details

A Hammer Film production released by Exclusive Films
United Programmes Sound
From the play by Major Campbell Christie and Miss Dorothy Campbell Christie

Black & White 65 minutes

Filming Began: November 1949
UK Release: 21st August 1950

Studio:
Oakley Court Hotel, Oakley Green, Windsor, Berkshire

Stills from film

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Cast & Crew

Red = Uncredited


Crew	Name	Age at Release	Birth		Death	Age	Hammer Credits	Uncredited	Total Hammer
Art Department	Mick Lyons	49	1901		22 Jun 1959	58		10	10
Art Department	Tom Money	33	1917		1974	57	2	21	23
Art Director	Denis Wreford	45	1905		1988	83	5		5
Assistant Director	https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/jimmy-sangster/#	22	2 Dec 1927		19 Aug 2011	83	66	2	68
Boom Operator	Percy Britten	30	1 Oct 1919		1996	76		23	23
Camera Operator	Peter Bryan	30	28 Sep 1919		Sep 1972	52	28		28
Casting	Prudence Sykes						11	2	13
Clapper Loader	https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/harry-oakes/#	29	16 Jan 1921		11 Dec 2012	91	3	56	59
Continuity	https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/renee-glynne/#	24	3 Aug 1926		6 Apr 2022	95	41	3	44
Director	Francis Searle	41	14 Mar 1909		31 Jul 2002	93	18		18
Director of Photography	Walter Harvey BSc	47	9 Feb 1903		1979	75	35		35
Editor	John Ferris						7		7
Editor	Ray Pitt						5	3	8
Electrician	Jack Curtis						3	24	27
Hair Stylist	Monica Hustler	22	21 Nov 1927	21.11.1927		97	18		18
Make-up	https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/phil-leakey/#	42	4 May 1908		26 Nov 1992	84	50		50
Musical Director	Frank Spencer	39	19 Jun 1911		Feb 1975	63	22	1	23
Producer	https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/anthony-hinds/#	27	18 Sep 1922		30 Sep 2013	91	87	3	90
Production Manager	Arthur Barnes	64	1886		1956	70	20		20
Recordist	Edgar Vetter	37	27 Jan 1913		15 Dec 1988	75	15		15
Screenplay	A.R. Rawlinson	56	9 Aug 1894		20 Apr 1984	89	4		4
Sound Mixer	Gordon Everett	27	18 Mar 1923		9 Jun 1991	68	1	6	7
Still Photographer	https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/john-jay/#	29	14 Nov 1920		29 Apr 2005	84	13	22	35

Cast	Name	Age at Release	Birth		Death	Age	Hammer Credits	Uncredited	Total Hammer
Bill	Hugh Latimer	37	12 May 1913		12 Jun 2006	93	3		3
Inspector Spedding	Campbell Singer	41	16 Mar 1909		16 Feb 1976	66	5		5
Kapel	Garry Marsh	48	21 May 1902		6 Mar 1981	78	1		1
Police Constable OBrien	John Kelly	46	1904		19 May 1977	73	2		2
Price	Danny Green	47	26 May 1903		1973	69	4		4
Ronnie	Michael Medwin	27	18 Jul 1923		26 Feb 2020	96	6		6
Sally	Yvonne Owen	27	28 Jul 1923		Dec 1990	67	1		1
With	Maire O'Neil	65	12 Jan 1885		2 Nov 1952	67		1	1

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Footnotes

This is the second filmed version of the stage play, the first being British International Pictures 1936 production starring Billy Milton and directed by Herbert Brenon.

1950 BBFC Cert. “U"

Production Details

Stills from film

Cast & Crew

Original Poster

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