Rough Shoot

Date: 1953
Director: Robert Parrish
Production Company: Raymond Stross Productions

Stars: Joel McCrea, Herbert Lom, Evelyn Keyes, Roland Culver
Location(s): Dorset, Hampshire, London

Region(s): , ,

Storyline:

American gets involved in a spy caper after shooting a suspected poacher on his rented shoot.

Additional Information:

Screen captures by SJ

Also known as ‘Shoot First’ (US Title)

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  • Capture 1
  • 13 Nov 2013

McCrea and Keyes' house in the Dorset countryside.

A place called 'Shaggs', Clive Rideout. East Lulworth, Dorset.

  • Capture 2
  • 'Now' required

A better view of the house.

  • Capture 3
  • 09 Nov 2013

Ah, a nice clue. Bovington (good for army tanks) one way and to the left (out of grab shot) Wareham and the road goes straight on. Nothing obvious on the maps.

The Call Box is at The Triangle, East Lulworth. Hard to tell, I know, Clive Rideout.

  • Capture 4
  • 'Now' required

McCrea and Lom arrive at the film's Winchester station. But its neither of the stations that serve the Hampshire city.

  • Capture 5
  • 'Now' required

Keyes goes to the ticket office.

  • Capture 6
  • 06 Jul 2011

Platform 7 at Waterloo. The station is also seen in 'Piccadilly Incident', 'Inadmissible Evidence', ‘Seven Days to Noon’, 'West 11', 'Hennessy', 'Private Road', ‘Horror Hospital’, ‘One Exciting Night’, 'Waterloo Road', ‘The Good Die Young’, ‘Return of a Stranger’ and ‘The Party’s Over’.

Platform 7 today. SJ

  • Capture 7
  • 06 Jul 2011

Culver, McCrea and Keyes outside Waterloo station, London SE1.

Victory Arch, as it's known. SJ

  • Capture 8
  • 25 Jan 2010

Marylebone Road, London NW1, in times gone by.

Now here's a problem. This is the now but I was not entirely convinced about 12 years ago, wishing to cite the Cromwell Road area. Any thoughts? SJ And indeed RL had great thoughts: "The banded posts between building and pavement and generally white lower level brick/stonework belong to the workhouse Luxborough Lodge opposite Madame Tussaud's." It was demolished in 1965 and the rebuilding belongs to London Polytechnic, now the University of Westminster.

  • Capture 9
  • 25 Jan 2010

Outside Madame Tussaud's on Marylebone Road?

This is a doorway to Madame Tussaud's but it doesn't look right. SJ.

  • Capture 10
  • 25 Jan 2010

One would imagine so given this clue.

And this looks very unlikely as well. Can anyone do better? SJ.