Squibs (1935)

Date: 1935
Director: Henry Edwards
Production Company: Real Art Productions

Stars: Betty Balfour, Gordon Harker, Stanley Holloway, Ronald Shiner
Location(s): London

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Squibs is a cockney flower seller and her father, deeply in debt through gambling, get by with the help of friends and a romantically inclined policeman.

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The opening sequences is in a seemingly busy London Street. Possibly a stage set.

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  • 21 Apr 2018

The early part of the movie take place around a set of fountain steps, upon which Squibs ( Betty Balfour) sits and sells flowers from her basket. Looks very much like another stage set.

A set? But there's a perfectly serviceable real one from Adrian Grepnold. Piccadilly Circus, looking towards Swan & Edgar/Tower Records as was. Eros was moved in the 1980s. UPDATE Richard Lovejoy has shown that this really was a set. The 1935 stone blocks are too square and rounded and the window verticals too thin and flat.

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Constable Charley lee (Stanley Holloway) crosses from under an arch to meet Squibs (Betty Balfour). This movie seems to be prodominately filmed within stage sets, very evident in close-ups of building brickwork.

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Sam Hopkins (Gordon Harker) leads Bill (Ronald Shiner) across a residential courtyard. Another stage set?

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A busy London street? Another stage set. Constable Charley Lee, with armbands on holds up traffic.

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  • 09 Oct 2017

A well known location, The Tower of London where Constable Charley Lee takes Squibs.

Peter provides this view with The Shard as an addition to the skyline.

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And finally, they go to the races. Do the races still entertain this many people? Peter Brown says "not quite as many, but the St Leger at Doncaster still attracts a pretty impressive crowd". He is pretty sure that this is the 1933 St Leger won by Hyperion, one of the great racehorses and an even greater bloodstock influence. (RL)