Director: Tony Richardson
Release Date: May 1969
In the interview ‘On Location in 1970s London: Garvic Losey’, conducted by Paul Newland, Journal of British Cinema and Television, 6:2, August 2009, the interviewer mentions that ‘According to files now in your archive, Laughter in the Dark had sequences shot in the Mayflower Coffee Bar, Hogarth Place, Earl’s Court; Shepherd’s Market; a flat in Prince Albert Court, northwest London; Farringdon House [Oxfordshire]; Crockford’s casino in Carlton House Terrace; the National Portrait Gallery; offices in the Courtauld Institute of Art; and, of course, as you say, Sotheby’s in New Bond Street. This filming took place in the summer of 1968. You received letters of complaint from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea regarding filming in Addison Road – your trucks caused a certain amount of disruption! But you did receive a letter from the Ministry of Public Buildings and Works saying that they had no problem with you filming in and around Hyde Park and St. James’s Park in June ’68.’ There is no listing for the Mayflower Coffee Bar in the 1964 or 1972 Kelly’s directory so perhaps it came and went during that period. Other locations mentioned, Prince Albert Court, Courtauld Institute and Addison Road, appear impossible to spot.
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Nicol Williamson in Old Brompton Road, opposite Brompton Cemetery, as he looks for a taxi.
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The auction scenes show Sotheby's, New Bond Street.
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Not much to see here but Williamson is entering the National Film Theatre from the riverside terrace beneath Waterloo Bridge.
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During the intermission Anna Karina sells ices and drinks at the National Film Theatre.
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Having just exited the basement of the Curzon Cinema Karina and friend walk in Hertford Street, Mayfair, where the Snooty Fox Restaurant was on the corner of Market Mews.
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As Williamson looks on from Hertford Street he is outside the Curzon Cinema.
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Unidentified. Is Karina exiting the Mayflower Coffee Bar?
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Facing north along Hogarth Road where Karina appears to be passing Nos. 2 and 4.
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Karina watching Williamson through the windows of 2 Hogarth Road. The telephone boxes are outside the post office Sorting Office.
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Williamson crossing Hogarth Road.
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As Williamson heads north Hogarth Road is to the right and Hogarth Place to the left.
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Kenway Road, with Earl's Court Road in the distance, as Williamson approaches Wallgrave Road.
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Karina's view through the windows of 35 Kenway Road as Williamson reaches his car in Wallgrave Road.
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Williamson discussing art at the National Portrait Gallery.
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Unidentified. Karina approaching.
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Williamson has presumably just exited the Mayflower Coffee Bar while there was a business named 'LEWIS at 6 Hogarth Place and a restaurant named 'NEW [ASIA] at No. 7.
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Unidentified. Williamson in the doorway of an art dealer.
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A second view from the same art dealer where the sign begins with the letters Finni....
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Unidentified. Williamson's view as he spots Karina. I think I've seen doorways like that before, but where?
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Presumably Hyde Park or St. James's Park where the fuzzy mess by the tree is Karina and Jean-Claude Drouot.
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Karina and Drouot at Crockford's, Carlton House Terrace.