Counterfeit Plan, The

A country lane "in France" where the gendarme are taking Max Brandt (Zachary Scott) to meet a plane to return him to England.

A hay cart draws across their path. Unknown location.

The gendarme are attacked and Max released from custody. Unknown location but a large building on a slight bend near that earlier bridge.

Max is flown from France and the plane prepares to land at its destination. Loseley Park, Guildford, Surrey

John Harwood found the house closed so it was a fine opportunity for a drone, which is limited by height, and as John admits off angle but a splendid shot nevertheless. (SJ)

The aircraft (I believe still operating in the UK) supposedly lands in the grounds of the Park, Max and Duke (Lee Patterson) disembark and wave goodbye to the pilot.

A view of Loseley Park as it was in 1957.

A view of Loseley Park as it is in 2017.

Meanwhile Louie Bernard (Mervyn Johns), the owner arrives home having been out shooting.

The same courtyard now, with sincere thanks to the More-Molyneux family.

He walks to the front entrance. Loseley Park, as seen in 'I Was Monty's Double', 'The Legacy', 'Night Cargoes', 'Silent Dust', 'A Dandy in Aspic' and television's 'Blackadder'.

A path now trod by many a visitor.

The police arrive with a view to searching the grounds.

The grounds are indeed worth exploring.

Max starts to “soften” Louie with regard to using his old skills. Loseley Park

With sincerely thanks to the More-Molyneux family.

Max is introduced by Harry Flint (Sydney Tafler) to Sam Watson (David Lodge)

Once again, I am grateful to the More-Molyneux family.

Under cover of darkness the team hijack a security van at a transport café. Andrew points out that the 'Three Frogs Café' also appears in 'Dry Rot' and 'My Wife's Lodger' and Timothy Hewlett adds that it stood on the B2215 near Send, Surrey at the junction with Burnt Common Lane and has since been replaced by a business unit presently occupied by Renaissance Classic Sports Cars.

Whilst we do not usually upload Google Earth Views of locations already identified this was an unknown location in this film until Andrew Wyatt advised us of the fact that it appeared, established, in another film.

Max and Sam go to London to visit a group of “businessmen” who they hope will work as wholesalers for forged notes. Belgrave Place, looking towards Eaton Square.

Little has changed in this "select" area.

They pull up outside their destination. 17 Belgrave Place, London SW1 which is also seen in 'Breaking Point' and 'All Night Long' while other sections of the street appear in 'Dead Lucky', 'Seven Days to Noon' and 'Alien Autopsy'.

I am sure bicycles and railings would not be acceptable today.

Carole Bernard (Peggie Castle) having arrived home from Switzerland becomes reluctantly involved in the forgery scam and goes to visit her boyfriend who has just arrived in London. Victoria Station.

The Brighton side of the station on the west side has seen the tracks pushed back for an extended concourse, so this is rather an approximation. SJ

Carole arrives at Bob Fenton’s (Robert Arden) hotel. The White House seen from Osnaburgh Terrace NW1, the same “hotel” seen in 'Escapement', 'Night Plane to Amsterdam', 'Ring of Spies', 'Third Party Risk', 'The Betrayal', 'Gideon's Day' and 'Tread Softly Stranger'.

Now the Meliá White House.

Thinking that she is speaking to her father on the telephone she gives her location away to Max who leaves the meeting to visit the hotel. 17 Belgrave Place once again.

A little less activity when I was there.

One of the forged note distribution groups visits Brighton. Brighton Station, Trafalgar Street, Brighton, Sussex.

Now. Something is very different here. SD

The group splits up. Included to record the changed face of Brighton.

Facing Surrey Street from Guildford Road. SD

The manager of the branch of Westminster Bank receives a call from another bank manager saying that “more Fivers than normal” have been paid in. Corner of Sloane Square and Sloane Street, London SW1

Another bank with change of use.

The police are tipped off that forged notes will be flooding the country. Are those buses in Brighton livery? No, says Stephen Dean, this is Oxford Street, London W1 with Vere Street off to the left.

Peter provides this proving shot, taken from street level.

One note is passed off in a florist shop. Wimbledon Hill Road, on the corner of Alwyne Road, London SW19

The shop has closed, the site re-developed but the shops opposite remain.

Victoria Station Platforms 9 - 10

This replaces my April '24 approximation to capture the shed's roof with an improved angle. SJ

By now, Scotland Yard are, or course, involved. Derby Gate, London SW1

Will it ever be photogenic again?

The police issue a public broadcast for recipients of £5 notes to memorise the features of who gave it to them. Meanwhile Duke is returning to Bernard’s home. James found the call boxes in the following capture so we now know that this is Downside Road, Cobham, Surrey looking north with Downside Common and Downside Nursery School to the right. (RL)

A Google Street View to support the 'found' location. (RL)

Duke stops at a K1 telephone box to call Max. If it was genuine was it really next to a police box? Police telephone box 'king', James Russell, identifies the location as Horsley Road, Cobham, Surrey looking south with Downside Common Road and Chilbrook Road behind the camera. (RL)

A wider Google Earth View of the same location today, but sadly, without those iconic boxes. James tells us that the Police Box was installed 15th December 1948 and removed 21st October 1970. (RL)

After a shootout involving most people Max runs off with “the loot” to escape with Duke. Loseley Park, Guildford, Surrey.

The entrance to the courtyard, with once again, thanks to the More-Molyneux family.

Having been forced off the road by avoiding a police car they start to plunge to their death, unknown but distinctive location. With Geoff's identification of the next capture, this must surely also be Betchworth Quarry and the lime kiln chimney that still survives. Betchworth Quarry and its kilns appears in several productions including 'Scream and Scream Again', 'The Break', 'The Corpse' and possibly 'The Terrornauts'.

A nearby quarry? Geoff Dodd advises that this is Betchworth Quarry at Box Hill, Surrey where the famous ITC White Jaguar sequence, that appeared in many TV series, was shot.