The Man in Black

Henry Clavering suspects his second wife Bertha is trying to drive his daughter (by his first marriage) insane, to stop her inheriting his money. He decides to use his yoga skills to pretend to be dead, and thereby expose her villainy.

Production Details

A Hammer Production of The B.B.C. Sensation
United Programmes Sound System

Black & White 72 minutes

Filming Began: 31st July 1949
UK Release: 6th March 1950

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

Stills from film

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Cast & Crew

Crew – Believed complete

Red = Uncredited


Crew	Name	Age at Release	Birth		Death	Age	Hammer Credits	Uncredited	Total Hammer
Art Department	Tom Money	33	1917		1974	57	2	21	23
Art Depatment	Mick Lyons	49	1901		22 Jun 1959	58		10	10
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/#	23	3 Aug 1926		6 Apr 2022	95	41	3	44
Director	Francis Searle	40	14 Mar 1909		31 Jul 2002	93	18		18
Director of Photography	Cedric Williams	37	1913		1999	86	7		7
Editor	John Ferris						7		7
Editor	Ray Pitt						5	3	8
Electrician	Jack Curtis						3	24	27
Focus Puller	Michael Reed	20	7 Jul 1929		15 Dec 2022	93	6	2	8
Focus Puller	Neil Binney	18	Jun 1931	01.06.1931		93	17	10	27
Hair Stylist	Monica Hustler	22	21 Nov 1927			96	18		18
Make-up	https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/phil-leakey/#	41	4 May 1908		26 Nov 1992	84	50		50
Musical Director	Frank Spencer	38	19 Jun 1911		Feb 1975	63	22	1	23
Musical Director	Rupert Grayson						8		8
Original Story	Francis Searle	40	14 Mar 1909		31 Jul 2002	93	18		18
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	John Gilling	37	29 May 1912		22 Nov 1984	72	19		19
Second Assistant Director	Jack Causey	36	1914		1977	63	6	1	7
Sound Assistant	Gordon Everett	27	18 Mar 1923		09.06.1991	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
Bertha Clavering	Betty Anne Davies	39	24 Dec 1910		14 May 1955	44	2		2
Doctor	Gerald Case	45	26 Jan 1905		22 May 1985	80	3		3
Elsie	Mollie Palmer	29	11 Jan 1921		27 Apr 2009	88	2		2
Henry Clavering/Hodson	https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/sidney-james/#	36	8 May 1913		26 Apr 1976	62	7		7
Janice	Sheala Burrell	27	9 May 1922		19 Jul 2011	89	4	1	5
Joan	Hazel Penwarden						1		1
Mrs. Carter	Courtney Hope	63	19 Dec 1886		17 Jan 1975	88	4		4
Removal Man	David Keir	66	7 Feb 1884		30 Oct 1971	87	1	3	4
Sandford	Lawrence Baskcombe	66	13 Oct 1883		12 Feb 1962	78	1		1
The Man in Black Storyteller	Valentine Dyall	42	7 May 1907		24 Jun 1985	78	3	1	4
Victor	Anthony Forwood	34	3 Oct 1915		18 May 1988	72	6		6

Original Poster

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Footnotes

This was the debut film for actress Sheila Burrell, who also appeared for Hammer in Cloudburst (1951), The Rossiter Case (1951), Women Without Men(1956) and Paranoiac (1963).

1950 BBFC Cert. “A”

Production Details

Stills from film

Cast & Crew

Original Poster

Footnotes

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