Director: Basil Dearden
Release Date: August 1961
On 2 March 1961 the Kinematograph Weekly noted that Basil Dearden had been spotted filming ‘huddled up on a hard wooden bench alongside Hammersmith Pier with his hands pushing hard into his overcoat pockets’ with ‘the wind blowing cold, and it being too early for the local innkeepers to dispense hot toddies.’
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Building site scenes begin with this view from Eland House north towards Palace Street, Westminster, running left to right, where the Edwardian blocks of flats, right of centre, are either side of Stafford Place.
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While it's difficult to tell where Peter McEnery is standing, in a building site where six block were under construction, the view is to the south west where the Senior Service sign, above the man's cap, is on the eastern end of building at Terminus Place and Victoria Street.
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Difficult to tell where McEnery is running but that is the tower of Westminster Cathedral.
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McEnery running in Palace Street, Westminster, where Catherine Street is next on the left.
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Palace Street, facing west, from Wilfred Street.
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McEnery reaches Buckingham Place with Palace Street in the distance.
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The police arriving in Waterford Road, Fulham, where the view is south towards New King's Road.
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King's Road, with Milman's Street to the right, as the police arrive.
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As John Cairney stands in King's Road Milman's Street is to the right.
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Cairney entering the former Chelsea Police Station, 385-387 King's Road, at the corner of Milman's Street.
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Dirk Bogarde approaching Stornoway House, Cleveland Row, St. James's.
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As Bogarde approaches his 'club' the corner at Marlborough Road and Pall Mall is in the distance.
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McEnery in Leicester Square where the Monseigneur News Theatre was on the corner of Leicester Place.
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As McEnery approaches in St. Martin's Court the New Theatre is to the right and Charing Cross Road in the distance.
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The reverse view along St. Martin's Court towards St. Martin's Lane.
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As Antony Nicholls and Bogarde ride in the Rolls Royce the view is north along Millbank. The tower with the lit up clock face appears to Bridge House, the Headquarters of W.H. Smith, Albert Embankment.
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Facing south as McEnery approaches the premises of the Eton Motor Group, 250 Brompton Road.
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As McEnery steps out of frame the view from the car showroom features the east side of Brompton Road.
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The forecourt of the Eton Motor Group dressed as Cavendish Cars.
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Dawn Beret and Alan Howard exiting the Regal Cinema, High Street, Uxbridge.
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As McEnery passes Randalls, 7-9 Vine Street, Uxbridge, he spots Beret and Howard.
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McEnery and Howard outside Randalls.
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Unidentified. It looks like McEnery is at real Cafe, but is it London?
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Bogarde, Alan MacNaughton and Basil Dignam crossing Church Court, Inner Temple.
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Bogarde approaching his chambers in Carpmael Building, Middle Temple, on the left, while Elm Court is at the top of the stairs.
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David Evans and Hilton Young in St. Martin's Place by the steps of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields.
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The twosome passing the hairdresser at 4 Chiltern Street.
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Donald Churchill approaching 4 Earlham Street while the pub is on the corner of West Street.
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As Charles Lloyd-Pack talks with Churchill the view is from Earlham Street into Cambridge Circus.
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A second view as they chat shows the north side of Shaftesbury Avenue.
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Bogarde in the grounds of St. Nicholas Church, Church Lane, Chiswick.
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Heading home from St. Nicholas Church.
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The view south along Chiswick Mall as Bogarde nears his home.
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Facing south as Bogarde parks in Old Barrack Yard.
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Old Barrack Yard as Bogarde calls on Nicholls.
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More of Chiswick Mall as Bogarde drives up.
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Bogarde parking outside his home at Morton House, Chiswick Mall.
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With a cinematic sleight of hand as Bogarde steps from his car he sees Sylvia Syms, playing his wife, standing close to Lower Mall with Hammersmith Pier out of frame to the right.
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Facing downstream towards Lower Mall.
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Churchill in Charing Cross Road with Cecil Court off to the right.
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Nigel Stock and Bogarde going for a ride in Brompton Road where the view is south towards Sloane Avenue.
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The twosome reach the junction of Knightsbridge and Brompton Road as they head towards Hyde Park.
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Passing beneath Bowater House at Edinburgh Gate.
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An interested party, played by Derren Nesbitt, watches the car from South Carriage Drive, Hyde Park.
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Bogarde, viewed from Churchill Gardens, parking in Grosvenor Road.
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Nesbitt looks on as Bogarde approaches in Churchill Gardens.
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As MacNaughton and Syms drive up the view is north east along Chiswick Mall.
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Still an interested party, Nesbitt looks on as they enter Eyot Green.
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Syms, to the left, at the 'clinic' where she works while the location is the Corona Academy of Stage Training, 16 Ravenscourt Avenue, Hammersmith.
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Bogarde arrives in Ravenscourt Avenue.
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Policemen, Victor Brooks on left, making an arrest in Chiltern Street with Blandford Street behind them.
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As the twosome are arrested the view is north along Chiltern Street.
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Bogarde in St. Martin's Lane with St. Martin's Court to the right.
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Cairney and John Barrie observing Bogarde from the New Theatre, St. Martin's Lane.
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As Bogarde enters St. Martin's Court the kegs are being delivered to The Salisbury.
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St. Martin's Lane, facing Upper St. Martin's Lane, as Bogarde joins Cairney and Barrie outside the New Theatre.
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The east side of St. Martin's Lane as Margaret Diamond's taxi pulls away.
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More of the east side of St. Martin's Lane as the police follow Diamond.
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With Warwick Road behind the camera Diamond's taxi pulls up in Earl's Court Square.
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Diamond entering her home at Langham Mansions, Earl's Court Square.