Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Release Date: December 1936
Filming was completed by 13 August while on 19 September 1936 the Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette reported that the film contains ‘wonderful street scenes constructed and filmed at the open-air “lot” at Northolt, where Gaumont-British electricians have laid tram lines and set old L.C.C. trams in working order, while scenes were also “shot” in Trafalgar Square. A complete unit, with huge mobile generators and a large crowd of extras, took possession of Knightsbridge tube station after the last train had run and took escalator scenes until the first morning train was due.’ While scenes shot on the Northolt ‘lot’ are extensive the scene shot in Trafalgar Square is very brief and the scene shot at Knightsbridge tube station briefer still.
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A well illuminated Selfridges, 400 Oxford Street, seconds before sabotage darkens the street.
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Knightsbridge tube station.
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Oscar Homolka crossing Outer Circle, Regent's Park, as he approaches the London Zoo.
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Homolka buying his ticket to the London Zoo.
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Homolka's destination.
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Homolka entering the Aquarium.
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It's presumably a stand in for John Loder walking in Trafalgar Square with South Africa House in the distance.
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A brief shot of north side of Chapel Market, Islington, precedes a Northolt lot scene of a street market.
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Desmond Tester's journey across London is mainly backlot and studio shots apart from this obscured shot of Blackfriars Bridge as he heads south. To the left is the now-removed Old Blackfriars Railway Bridge.
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Tester's studio bound journey is also livened up with several street shots including this view north along Regent Street as an 88 heads for Acton and a 159 for Camden Town.