1953 BBFC Cert. “A”

Blood Orange

Alternative title: Three Stops to Murder

Private Detective Tom Conway is hired by jeweller Mercedes to investigate the theft of jewels from a London fashion house. But things take a sinister turn when two women, model Chelsea and the elderly Lady Marchant, are murdered, both while wearing a newly designed dress called “Blood Orange”. Conway suspects there must be a connection linking the crimes.

Trailer by The Hammer Graveyard

Production Details

A Hammer production released by Exclusive Films (UK) and Astor (USA)
Copyright 1953 by Exclusive Films Ltd.

All characters in this photoplay are fictitious and bear no resemblance to any real person, living or dead

RCA Sound System
Production Facilities kindly granted by Worth (London) Ltd
New Symphony Orchestra
Black & White 76 minutes

Filming Began: March 1953 – April 1953
UK Release: 3rd November 1953

Studio:
Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire

Stills from film

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Cast & Crew

Cast – Complete, awaiting verification
Crew – Believed complete

Red = Uncredited

Original Poster
Blood Orange 1953

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Footnotes

For some reason, Tom Conway, who was the brother of fellow actor George Sanders, plays a character in this film called – Tom Conway! This was his only appearance for Hammer, although he later narrated the featurette Copenhagen  (1956) for them. In the 1940’s he acted in horror films for RKO producer Val Lewton, such as Cat People (1942), I Walked with a Zombie and The Seventh Victim (both 1943), as well as playing the detective character The Falcon, a part he inherited from his brother, in a series of second features also for RKO. In 1956, he appeared in the Grade-Z American International schlock horror movies, Voodoo Woman and The She-Creature.

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