Landfall
Date: 1949
Director: Ken Annakin
Production Company: Associated British Picture Corporation
Stars: Michael Denison, Patricia Plunkett
Location(s): Hampshire, London
Region(s): London H-L, South East E-L
Storyline:
Rick, a Coastal Command pilot, sinks a German U-boat off the Isle of Wight, but is charged with sinking a British submarine that was lost in the area at about the same time. His name is subsequently cleared when his girlfriend Mona realises the significance of some information she has overheard.
Additional Information:
Screen shots and unaccredited now’s uploaded by Phil Bailey.
Kinematograph Weekly – Thursday 12 May 1949 reported:
……………On stage 2 were a public-house and scenes from the admiral’s study in “Landfall.”
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- Capture 1
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Opening shot; the titles say 'Portsmouth, 1940'. Is this a real location? The sea sparkles convincingly. The building has some similarities to Southsea Pier, but overall is distinctly different.
- Capture 2
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The camera pans right, following the car.
- Capture 3
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Rick (Michael Denison) arrives at Mona's house after learning that he's been posted to Titchfield. Is this a real location? It looks a lot like a set.
- Capture 4
- 06 May 2014
Rick drives through Titchfield on the way to the air base. Mary Burner confirms the location as East Street as the car had just passed the house where she lived with her parents who remembered the filming and have a photo of the car in the road. (RL)
East Street, Titchfield in Hampshire looking towards the High Street.
- Capture 5
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He arrives at the air base. Unknown location.
- Capture 6
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Rick and Mona park the car prior to walking over the downs. Unknown location.
- Capture 7
- 06 May 2014
They come down into Chalton village...
Manor Farm and the church. Chalton village today, hardly changed at all.
- Capture 8
- 06 May 2014
...to the Red Lion.
A tarmac road now, and no benches outside, but the pub looks exactly the same sixty-five years on. Out of shot, though, it's been extended to the side and the rear.
- Capture 9
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This looks as though it could well have been shot inside the Red Lion. but the interior layout has been altered, and the bar staff and I couldn't match it up. I may need to go there again... See Header Section (RL)
- Capture 10
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Wing Commander Hewitt (Maurice Denham) and Captain Burnaby (Dennis O'Dea) at the airfield. A discussion on an aviation forum from a couple of years back (http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?79922-Landfall-Filming-Locations) suggests that this is the airfield at Lee-on-Solent. The same thread contains a number of aircraft-related screen grabs from the film.
- Capture 11
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Mona is reunited with Rick at the hospital. Grovelands House in Grovelands Park on Queen Elizabeth's Drive, Southgate N14 identified by Steve Randall.