In Copenhagen, Martha Jorgensen receives a visit from a Mr Rasmusson, who is looking for her husband. In fact, if he is the ‘right person’, he has been looking for him for years, as the Jorgen Jorgensen he is seeking was a traitor to the Danish resistance during World War II and Rasmusson has vowed to kill him…..
Production Details
A Hammer Film production released by Exclusive Films UK
RCA Sound Recording
Produced at Bray Studios
A CinemaScope Picture
Eastman Colour by Humphries Laboratories
30 Minute Featurette
Filming Began: 1st March 1955
UK Release: 9th January 1956
Studio:
Bray Studios, Down Place, Oakley Green, Berkshire
Locations:
Copenhagen, Denmark
Stills from film
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Cast & Crew
Red = Uncredited
Crew | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer |
Associate Producer | Mickey Delamar | 48 | 1908 | 1971 | 63 | 7 | 1 | 8 |
Director | Peter Cotes | 43 | 19 Mar 1912 | 10 Nov 1998 | 86 | 1 | 1 | |
Director of Photography | Walter Harvey BSc | 52 | 9 Feb 1903 | 1979 | 75 | 34 | 34 | |
Editor | Spencer Reeve | 32 | 10 Dec 1923 | 15 Dec 1975 | 52 | 8 | 2 | 10 |
Focus Puller | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/harry-oakes/# | 34 | 16 Jan 1921 | 11 Dec 2012 | 91 | 53 | 53 | |
Music | Eric Winstone | 41 | 1915 | 2 May 1974 | 59 | 3 | 3 | |
Original Story | Philip Mackie | 37 | 26 Nov 1918 | 23 Dec 1985 | 67 | 1 | 1 | |
Producer | https://www.hammer-graveyard.org.uk/michael-carreras/# | 28 | 21 Dec 1927 | 19 Apr 1994 | 66 | 86 | 9 | 95 |
Sound Recording | Bill Sweeney | 2 | 2 | |||||
Sound Recording | J.J.Y. Scarlett | 1 | 1 | |||||
Sound Recordist | York Scarlett | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
Cast | Name | Age at Release | Birth | Death | Age | Hammer Credits | Uncredited | Total Hammer |
Jorgen Jorgensen | David Markham | 42 | 3 Apr 1913 | 15 Dec 1983 | 70 | 2 | 2 | |
Martha Jorgensen | Margo Lorenz | 26 | 1930 | 1976 | 46 | 1 | 1 | |
Mr Rasmusson | Douglas Wilmer | 36 | 8 Jan 1920 | 31 Mar 2016 | 96 | 4 | 4 |
Original Poster
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Footnotes
Hammer produced several shorts which fell mainly into the drama, travelogue or musical categories. This one is of the dramatic variety and features Douglas Wilmer, who later played Christopher Lee’s arch-enemy Nayland Smith in The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966) and The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967).
While shooting exteriors on location in Denmark, Michael Carreras, Len Harris and Harry Oakes filmed enough footage to create the documentary short “Copenhagen”.