The Blind Spot [Unseen]

An unseen film. The 21 April 1932 issue of Kinematograph Weekly reported that ‘Monday morning [18th] was the most exciting one Twickenham has experienced for many a long day. For Warner Brothers took possession of  the busiest corner of that riverside town to film some vigorous action for their current Teddington studio production, “The Blind Spot.” With the cordial co-operation of the police, street scenes outside the busy local branch of Barclays Bank were filmed for over three hours. By special permission from Barclays, their premises were entered by raiders, headed by Percy Marmont.’ The same publication added, 12 May, that production ‘was completed on Sunday [8th] at Croydon Aerodrome, where, with the co-operation of the Dutch Airways, John Daumery “shot” some very important sequences of Laura Cowie and Percy Marmont leaving for, and arriving from, Amsterdam. For the purposes of the story, it was essential that a Dutch aeroplane should be used, and the authorities of the Dutch Air Line went to the extent of loaning the ‘plane that was leaving for Amsterdam at 2.30 that afternoon. So close was the time that the ‘plane left Croydon within half-an-hour of Daumery finishing his filming.’ The same journal elaborated, 16 June, that ‘scenes vary from a West End Club to Brixton Goal, taking in en route, Amsterdam, Croydon Aerodrome, Lincoln’s Inn and the Inner Temple, the vaults of a bank, a “hold-up” outside the bank, a motor-car accident, a wedding, Scotland Yard, a jewel robbery, and a suicide.  Co-operation has bene given by the Dutch Air Line, the local police, Scotland Yard, and the Governor of Brixton Goal.’