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Dick Barton at Bay (Original title)Dick Barton versus the Death Ray (Working title)
Date: 02 October 1950 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Godfrey Grayson

Synopsis: A British scientist and his daughter are kidnapped by a fanatical foreign agent who is after a death ray invention. They are imprisoned in a lighthouse on Beachy Head, but Dick Barton and the police arrive in time.

Genre:
Detective drama

Subjects:
Scientific research, Lighthouses, Beachy Head
Releases
Date: 02 October 1950Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 68 mins Length: 6110 FeetDialogue (original): English

Credits (26)
Production Company: Hammer Film Productions, Production Company: Marylebone Film Studios Limited, [Produced] by arrangement with: Ted Kavanagh Associated, Presents: Exclusive Films, Produced by: Henry Halsted, Production Manager: Eric Veendam, Continuity: Prudence Sykes, Casting Director: Edgar Blatt, Casting Manager: Mary Harris, Screen Play: Jackson C. Budd, Screen Play: Ambrose Grayson, Emma Trechman, From a Story by: Ambrose Grayson, Director of Photography: Stanley Clinton, Camera Operator: Jack Rose, Film Editor: Max Brenner, Assembly Cutter: Dodo Elliot, Art Director: James Marchant, Make up Artist: Teddy Edwards, Hair Stylist: J. Hollis, Music Composed and Arranged by: Rupert Grayson, ['The Devil's Gallop' theme by]: Charles Williams, Music Arranged and Composed by: Frank Spencer, Sound Recordist: Charles Hasher, [Studio]: Marylebone Studios
Cast (17)
Don Stannard (Dick Barton), Tamara Desni (Anna), George Ford (Snowey White), Meinhart Maur (Serge Volkoff), Percy Walsh (Professor Mitchell), Joyce Linden (Mary Mitchell), Campbell Singer (Sir George Cavendish), John Arnatt (Jackson), Richard George (Inspector Slade), Beatrice Kane (Betsy Horrick), Patrick Mcnee (David Phillips), George Crawford (Boris), Paddy Ryan (Fingers), Fred Owen (a gangster), Yoshihide Yanai (Chang), Ted Butterfield (Tommy), Ben Williams ([submarine commander])