Sons of the Sea

Date: 1939
Director: Maurice Elvey
Production Company: British Consolidated

Stars: Leslie Banks, Norman Bird, Cecil Parker, Simon Lack, Mackenzie Ward
Location(s): Devon, Hertfordshire

Region(s): ,

Storyline:

Murder, foreign spies and the British Secret service in this plot based around Dartmouth Naval College. The film was shot in the revolutionary Dufaycolor, the first British movie of its kind. JT

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  • 21 Jul 2008

CLX 730 & Simon Lack boarding Dartmouth ferry.

Dartmouth Ferry approach with plaques on the right hand wall commemorating the brave soldiers who left from this ferry to take part in the fighting in Northern Europe.

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  • 20 Jul 2013

CLX 730 at Churston station. Same place same angle appears in 'The System'.

Now.

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CLX 730 at Dartmouth station? Victor Lane points out that there's no rail station at Dartmouth, just a ticket office... Steve Gwinnett adds that the GWR regard Dartmouth as a proper station in all respects apart from the fact that it was never served by any trains, passengers instead travelling by the GWR-provided ferry service across to/from Kingswear station... Over to Brian Meredith, "Given the higher elevation of the view, and the planting, my suggestion is that the scene might show the Kingswear Park Club, off Mount Ridley Road." However, Nigel Wain suggests further along the river towards the Naval College as, in the background, you can make out railway coaches and wagons of which he believes are standing at Kingswear.

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  • 12 Aug 2013

Crumbs under one's top plate. Edgwarebury Hotel, Elstree in Hertfordshire, now called Corus! The sphinxes, there are in fact two, also appeared in 'The Liquidator' while other views of the hotel can be seen in ‘School for Scoundrels’, 'For Members Only', ‘The Devil Rides Out’, ‘Spider’s Web’, ‘Never Too Young to Rock’, ‘Stardust’, ‘The Rough and the Smooth’, ‘Endless Night’, ‘Stranger from Venus’, ‘My Lover My Son’, 'The Liquidator’, ‘Not Now Comrade’, ‘So Evil, So Young’, ‘Mosquito Squadron’ and ‘Night Must Fall’..

Now called, in 2013, Laura Ashley The Manor, and it's tastefully decorated, but there has been a sacrilegious removal of the sphinxes. I do hope they are safely stored. SJ

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  • 31 Oct 2012

Entrance to big house. Blackpool Valley Road, Blackpool Sands, Dartmouth, Devon, found by Dean . . .

. . . who took this shot.

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  • 21 Jul 2008

Ferry - Mackenzie Ward on board, Simon Lack in red car.

Dartmouth Ferry again.

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  • 21 Jul 2008

Guard's big tip, Churston station.

A bit of remodelling had gone on as you can see.

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  • 02 Mar 2012

Kay Walsh & Ellen Pollock outside big house. The Edgwarebury Hotel in Elstree.

Now. SJ

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Mackenzie Ward & Simon Lack on Dartmouth ferry. The ferry can also be seen in 'The System', 'Nothing But the Night' and 'The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea'.

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Mackenzie Ward arrested boarding ferry.

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Mackenzie Ward boarding Dartmouth ferry.

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  • 21 Jul 2008

Mackenzie Ward in Dartmouth.

Same scene today.

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  • 02 Mar 2012

Simon Lack & Kay Walsh in front of big house. This is the Edgwarebury Hotel near Elstree. Andy Collings states, and well spotted he. However, the hotel is now called Corus.

Now. SJ

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  • 21 Jul 2008

Simon Lack on Dartmouth ferry.

Today's ferry is more security conscious.

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Sleepy guard at Churston station.

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  • 02 Mar 2012

Brother Brian spotted the sphinxes at the Edgwarebury Hotel near Elstree, Hertfordshire.

There they are. SJ