Hammer – He Left School at 15 With Nothing and Became One of Horror’s Greatest Producers | Michael Carreras

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Long before he ran Hammer, Michael Carreras was just trying to find his place.

In this clip from Dressed to Kill, screenwriter and author David Pirie and Hammer historian Wayne Kinsey trace Michael Carreras’s path from a difficult, sports-obsessed childhood under his father, James, through leaving school at 15 with no qualifications, to landing his first job at Exclusive Films — the company that would lead to Hammer.

It’s a candid look at the man behind so much of Hammer’s history: his complicated relationship with his father, his own marriage to Joe (PA to his grandfather Enrique Carreras), and his famously late nights at Ronnie Scott’s.

Studio: Hammer