Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Release Date: June 1972
Both Alfred Hitchcock’s London: a reference guide to locations, by Gary Giblin, 2006, and Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy: the last masterpiece, by Raymond Foery, 2012, were very useful in supplying location and filming date information including that shooting began in Covent Garden on 26 July 1971. Hitchcock departed London for Los Angeles on 29 October sending a memo to Universal noting that ‘Principal photography has been completed on FRENZY.’
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An aerial shot used only to establish that the location is London does offer an interesting aspect of Rotherhithe, Bermondsey, Wapping and the view upstream along the Thames.
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The aerial shot ends with the camera approaching a political meeting outside County Hall.
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As the reporters listen to a politician the view features a standard view of Westminster.
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Having just stepped away from the doorway of The Globe, 37 Bow Street, Jon Finch approaches Russell Street.
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Finch buying a newspaper in Bow Street with the Royal Opera House in the background.
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With Bow Street running from top to bottom of the frame Finch heads west into Russell Street.
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As Finch walks on the camera pans along the now destoyed north west side of Russell Street.
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As the pan continues more of the now destroyed Russell Street frontage comes into frame along with Covent Garden.
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Finch crossing Covent Garden where the street sign is at the corner with Russell Street.
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As Finch walks on the north east side of Covent Garden Russell Chambers and the redbrick Flower Market form the backdrop.
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With Aldwych in the distance Finch approaches the Nell of Old Drury, 29 Catherine Street.
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Finch in Henrietta Street with Southampton Street to the right and the Flower Market behind him.
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A seemingly random shot moves the action to Oxford Street with Stratford Place off to the left.
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Following a cut Finch passes 117 Oxford Street which is about 1/2 mile east of Stratford Place.
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Finch enters Dryden Chambers at 119 Oxford Street. Dryden Chambers has since be demolished and filled in with new buildings
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The view out from Dryden Chambers towards Oxford Street. Despite the subsequent destruction of Dryden Chambers the ironwork, at the top of the archway, has been retained.
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A taxi carrying Barbara Leigh Hunt and Finch arriving in Ennismore Garden Mews.
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Barry Foster stepping out into Dryden Chambers after murdering Leigh Hunt.
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Finch in another aspect, a dead end in fact, of Dryden Chambers.
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Yet another aspect of Dryden Chambers featuring Finch.
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No clues here but it is Soho Square for I happened to be walking by, apparetly on 4 August 1971, and saw Hitchcock directing this scene.
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Finch in Leicester Square with the Shakespeare statue and the AA offices behind him while he is facing the Odeon cinema.
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Finch and Anna Massey arriving at the Coburg Hotel, Baywater Road, with an entrance to Queensway Station to the right of the hotel.
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The rear of the Coburg Hotel facing into Queensway.
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Finch, now on the run for murders he didn't commit, and Massey in the no-man's-land in the centre of Park Lane. The building at left is on the corner of Curzon Street.
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As they run off the London Hilton is visible across Park Lane.
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Billie Whitelaw looking down from her balcony at the Hilton Hotel.
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Whitelaw's view from her balcony as Clive Swift speaks with Finch and Massey.
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A shot of New Scotland Yard, possibly viewed from Broadway, indicates that the police are on the job.
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When Foster and Massey exit the Covent Garden Flower Market the configuration of the stonework and railings suggests they are stepping into Tavistock Street.
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The twosome in Henrietta Street with Southampton Street at the No Entry signs.
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Following his murder of Massey in his flat the camera retreats from 3 Henrietta Street showing Foster's windows on the first floor.
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Foster preparing to dispose of Massey's body at the south west corner of Covent Garden.
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Police activity in Covent Garden with St. Paul's Church to the left.
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Foster walking from his shop in Covent Garden.
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Finch crossing Covent Garden as the two men step out of Tavistock Court.
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Alec McGowen's taxi and the north east corner of Covent Garden featuring the ornate frontage of the Foreign Fruit Market (Floral Hall) with Russell Street off to the right.
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Following his trial Finch end up in Wormwood Scrubs viewed here from Du Cane Road.
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The hospital exteriors were filmed at St. Mary Abbot's Hospital, Marloes Road, Kensington.