Director: Val Guest
Release Date: October 1955
The Kinematograph Weekly, 28 April 1955, reported that ‘”Excessive noise at 2 a.m.” was the complaint. And, because of it, a film unit was warned off shooting a night sequence near Edgware Road just before Easter. But, last Friday [22 April] after the problem had reached Home Office level, the unit was allowed to finish off the job.’ The report added that ‘It is a very important sequence: it opens the film’ a film ‘which is being made in a wide-screen ratio.’ This unnamed location, ‘near Edgware Road’ was Crawford Place.
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Andre Morell walking on the north west side of Crawford Place.
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A lit up window at 37 Crawford Place where Morell commits a murder.
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As Morell leaves the murder scene the view is along Crawford Place facing Homer Row and Crawford Mansions.
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With Caledonian Road to the left policeman Terence Morgan is approaching Pentonville Prison.
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Morgan entering Pentonville Prison.
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As Morgan chats with Diana Lambert, in Crawford Place, the street lamp is in Watson's Mews.
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Whilst the grabs thus far have been from a clearer print, they are also from a 'reformatted' print. This somewhat compromised grab, presumably originating from a VHS tape, may have lost image at the left and right, but it has retained image at the bottom and especially at the top of the frame.
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When Morgan crosses Crawford Place the street sign in the distance should read Homer Row, with Crawford Street to the right.
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Whilst the sign is tough to read Morgan is being attacked in Watson's Mews.
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A second visit to Pentonville shows a bit more of both Caledonian Road and the prison.
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Another general view as Morgan exits Pentonville Prison.
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Unidentified. By this stage the film is making generous use of recycled police activity including scenes from 'Stop Press Girl' (1949), 'The Clouded Yellow' (1950) and 'The Runaway Bus' (1954) which aren't recorded here. This image appears to be recycled too, but from which film, and is it London?
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Lupus Street, Pimlico, where the police car appears to be exiting Worcester Street. I think this is recycled footage and I think I've seen it before, but where?
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Yet another visit to Pentonville Prison, showing a slightly different angle, as Morgan and Anthony Oliver arrive by taxi.
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Oliver at Pentonville Prison looking out into Caledonian Road.
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The view from the prison across Caledonian Road as Guido Lorraine waits in his car parked in Blundell Street.
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Whilst there's no mystery as to where Lorraine is parked the older print does include, even if it's illegible, the Blundell Street sign. Perhaps it would be legible if included on the clearer print.
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Lorraine in Blundell Street.
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A little more of Caledonian Road as Oliver spots Lorraine.
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Morgan and Oliver arriving in Bryanston Place, with Shouldham Street in the distance.
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Morgan leading the way into the doorway at 32-37 Sherwood Court, Bryanston Place.
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As Lorraine drive by that sign appears to read 'Glanfield Lawrence' which would make this the north side of the North Circular Road at the corner, to the right, of the Great North Road (High Road), Finchley.
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I guess that sign reads 'Glanfield Corner' making this the view north across the North Circular Road into the Great North Road (High Road).
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Unidentified. Lorraine drives on in a rather anonymous looking landscape where there is a tall chimney, I guess, to the left. London?