Legacy, The
Date: 1978
Director: Richard Marquand
Production Company: David Foster Productions, Pethurst Ltd., Turman-Foster Co.
Stars: Katharine Ross, Sam Elliott, John Standing, Ian Hogg, Charles Gray, Hildegard Neil, Lee Montague, Margaret Tyzack, Roger Daltrey
Location(s): Buckinghamshire, London, Los Angeles, Oxfordshire, Surrey
Region(s): London H-L, N. America, South East E-L
Storyline:
A group of powerful people gathers at a manor house to find out, during satanic murders, who will survive to be bequeathed a legacy. SJ
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- Capture 1
- 'Now' required
An establishing shot of Los Angeles, USA, shot from North Hillcrest Road.
- Capture 2
- 18 May 2022
Ross and Elliott shopping for fruit in London... Gloucester Road, SW7 with thanks to Steve Cook who alerted us to this website. http://cultfilmlocations.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/the-legacy-1978.html
The awning belongs to 163 Gloucester Road and this is standing on Old Brompton Road looking west. SJ
- Capture 3
- 'Now' required
A tube and a lot of clutter... Piccadilly Circus, as above.
- Capture 4
- 02 Jun 2015
North side of the Serpentine, Hyde Park W2.
Peter took a brighter shot.
- Capture 5
- 04 Aug 2015
Cobstone windmill seen from The Bull and Butcher, Holloway Lane, Turville, Oxfordshire. Familiar to 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' fans and appearing in many other films including 'Dance with a Stranger', 'A Month in the Country', 'Nanny McPhee Returns', 'Into the Woods', 'Candleshoe', 'Rollin' with the Nines', ‘The Avengers’, ‘101 Dalmatians’, 'Child's Play’, ‘Death on the Nile’, 'The Christmas Tree', ‘A Bunch of Amateurs’, ‘Another Country’, ‘The Witches’, ‘The Black Cat’, ‘The Blue Geranium’, 'The Captive Heart' and ‘Hampstead’.
Impressively sympathetic window alterations. SJ
- Capture 6
- 04 Aug 2015
Turville, heading west on Holloway Lane, past School Lane. Seen also in 'Went the Day Well', 'Father Came Too!', 'An Education', 'Bride (sic) and Prejudice', 'The Big Sleep', 'I Capture the Castle', 'Dead of Night', 'A Yank in Ermine', 'The Pumpkin Eaters', 'Separate Lies', 'The Revengers' comedies and lots of television shows including, perhaps most famously, 'The Vicar of Dibley'.
Cars! SJ
- Capture 7
- 04 Aug 2015
Standing's Rolls passes an illegible pub sign.
Turns out to be The Chequers in Fingest. The van belongs to 'Midsomer Murders' which has filmed here before. SJ
- Capture 8
- 04 Aug 2015
... and a picturesque church.
… which is St Bartholomew's on Chequers Lane, Fingest between Hambleden and Turville. SJ
- Capture 9
- 20 Aug 2013
And now we're in the oft-filmed Hambleden, Buckinghamshire.
The yew has filled out. SJ
- Capture 10
- 20 Aug 2013
Stopping at the garage to report the Elliott and Ross's bike accident.
Closed when I was there. SJ
- Capture 11
- 21 Oct 2018
Not an entrance to Loseley Park. However. Geoff Dodd identifies this as Witley Park on Lea Coach Road near Bowlhead Green in Surrey. Louise Johnson recalls that she and her brother watched filming of the scene where Sam Elliot and Katherine Ross were trying to leave the house in the black Rolls Royce which had been delivered by lorry.
Geoff provides this comparison. (RL)
- Capture 12
- 21 Jul 2017
This is however Loseley House, Guildford, Surrey, which also features in 'A Dandy in Aspic', 'The Counterfeit Plan', 'Silent Dust', 'I Was Monty's Double' and 'Night Cargoes'.
It is indeed and now with a clearer view. (RL)
- Capture 13
- 21 Jul 2017
Elliott and Ross at the front entrance of Loseley House in Loseley Park.
Now a more colourful place to stand and talk. (RL)
- Capture 14
- 'Now' required
Elliott and Ross make their escape on horseback.
- Capture 15
- 04 Aug 2015
Riding into Hambleden from the carpark area.
I missed this one on a visit two years ago and now atone. SJ
- Capture 16
- 20 Aug 2013
Passing the butcher's.
Joan Fontaine did the same in The Witches. SJ
- Capture 17
- 20 Aug 2013
Elliott and Ross find their bike being repaired into pieces.
Now. SJ
- Capture 18
- 20 Aug 2013
The road looks east past the butcher's and pub.
Fiennes was attacked here in The Avengers. SJ
- Capture 19
- 20 Aug 2013
They steal the Rolls parked outside the local shop.
Tea rooms. SJ
- Capture 20
- 20 Aug 2013
The chauffeur is none too bothered to bid his master's Rolls bye as he know they're going nowhere except to their destiny.
Now, with replaced but almost identical fencing. SJ