Captive Heart, The
Date: 1946
Director: Basil Dearden
Production Company: Ealing Studios
Stars: Michael Redgrave, Rachel Kempson, Jack Warner, Mervyn Johns, Gordon Jackson
Location(s): Buckinghamshire, London, Lower Saxony (West Germany), Middlesex
Region(s): Germany, London C-D, South East A-D
Storyline:
POW assumes a dead officer’s identity and answers his widow’s letters, but, when he is liberated, it’ll be a tricky situation. SJ
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- Capture 1
- 16 Sep 2014
Captured troops, now prisoners-of-war, march through Germany to their camps. Stade in Lower Saxony, Germany.
Gunter sends this shot of the town Stade with the old harbour about 45km west of Hamburg that he took back in 2007. (RL)
- Capture 2
- 16 Sep 2014
Another shot of Stade as troops march through. The city was in West Germany at the time of filming.
Another great angle shot from Gunter taken in 2007 of the town Stade with the old harbour, some 45km west of Hamburg. (RL)
- Capture 3
- 'Now' required
Establishing shot as Kempson goes to find out about her husband's fate. Jonathan Aikman has identified this for us as Ambassador's Court, St. James's Palace, London SW1 (RL)
- Capture 4
- 02 Apr 2014
Memories of an idyllic village life . . .
. . . in Hambleden, Buckinghamshire. The trees in the middle have gone. SJ
- Capture 5
- 04 Feb 2023
Kempson's house, somewhere in the countryside. Located by Malcolm Tinnelly, this is Turville Grange in the tiny hamlet of Turville Heath, Buckinghamshire.
Malcolm visited the gated property and took an off-angle shot back in April 2021. He was told by a neighbour that the house was once owned by Henry Ford II and his wife Kathleen. He revisited a week later to gain a better angle and even the sky is bluer! (SJ)
- Capture 6
- 02 Apr 2014
More of Hambleden in a view from Crawford's house as seen in 'The Witches'.
Just a bit too much left and not enough right! SJ
- Capture 7
- 'Now' required
Hambleden railway station. There isn't one, but this is Aston Rowant standing in. Other views of the station can be seen in 'My Brothers Keeper', 'My Brother Jonathan' and 'Portrait of Clare'.
- Capture 8
- 02 Apr 2014
The village of Hambleden, which appears in many productions including 'Dance with a Stranger', 'A Month in the Country', 'Nanny McPhee Returns', 'Into the Woods', 'Candleshoe', 'Rollin' with the Nines', ‘The Avengers’, 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang', 'The Christmas Tree', ‘101 Dalmatians’, 'Child's Play', ‘The Legacy’, ‘Death on the Nile’, ‘A Bunch of Amateurs’, ‘Another Country’, ‘The Black Cat’, ‘The Blue Geranium' and ‘Hampstead’.
The same location. SJ
- Capture 9
- 'Now' required
Jackson arrives home after five years in a camp.
- Capture 10
- 'Now' required
Now blind, Jackson has to be guided home. This'll be hard to find.
- Capture 11
- 'Now' required
Johns and Warner are given a life home. The corner of Netley Road and Pottery Road in Brentford, Middlesex located by The Cine-Tourist.
- Capture 12
- 15 Apr 2019
John and Warner arrive home. Pottery Road in Brentford, also seen in 'The Gentle Gunman' and ‘Night Train To Paris’.
A few changes have taken place. (RL)