Director: Monty Banks
Release Date: May 1934
On the 4 April 1934 the Daily Herald reported that ‘during Easter Monty Banks made some scenes of Fleet Street for “The Church Mouse.”‘ On 12 April the Coventry Evening Telegraph added that ‘last week they succeeded in the difficult task of filming Laura la Plante in such busy thoroughfares as Regent Street, the Strand, and Fleet Street without being spotted by a soul!’ The Regent Street scenes appear to have been left on the cutting room floor.
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Laura La Plante exits Crozier Street, passing The Mitre pub, before crossing to an island in the middle of Lambeth Palace Road
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Laura La Plante exits Crozier Street, passing The Mitre pub, before crossing to an island in the middle of Lambeth Palace Road
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She walks west on the north side of Fleet Street, with the Daily Telegraph clock in the distance.
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She continues east on the south side of Strand where she reaches the corner of Norfolk Street.
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She crosses to the north side of Strand, outside Australia House, with the Royal Courts of Justice and St. Clement Danes in the distance.
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In an unidentified scene she chases a 59a bus as a tram passes by.
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She eventually gets off a bus on the north side of Fleet Street, by St Dunstan in the West, before crossing the street.
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Entering a bank at 37 Fleet Street.