Fortune is a Woman

Date: 1957
Director: Sidney Gilliat
Production Company: Individual Pictures, John Harvel Productions

Stars: Jack Hawkins, Arlene Dahl, Dennis Price, Geoffrey Keen, Bernard Miles, Christopher Lee, Michael Goodliffe
Location(s): London, Sussex

Region(s): ,

Storyline:

Insurance agent’s investigations lead to an encounter with an old flame, who involves him in forgery, arson and blackmail. SJ

Additional Information:

Also known in the US as ‘She Played with Fire’

 

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Hawkins and Keen with the Lutine bell at Lloyd's 50s style.

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Oliver Branwell drives towards the dark facade of Lowis Manor.

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  • 26 Jun 2018

Hawkins at the front of the house. Confirmed as Wiston House at Steyning in Sussex by Andrew Gannon.

Wiston House, Steyning, West Sussex. Photographed at dusk while attending a summer ball. A few days later I discovered the house appeared in this film. (SD)

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  • 04 May 2018

Hawkins strides from Westbourne Crescent across Gloucester Terrace in Paddington, London W2.

This replaces my Google shot from Aug 14, though the cladding scarcely makes it perfect yet. SJ

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  • 14 Jul 2016

And enters the Royal Court Apartments and Paddington Hotel, 51 Gloucester Terrace, W2.

This row was clad in scaffolding most of 2015/16, and I finally managed a shot in July 2016 replacing a google shot, but this is more accurate and so replaces it. Third time lucky. SJ

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  • 06 Feb 2015

Miles is helpful with directions arranging to meet Hawkins and Dahl (wrapped up together in the background) at "Embankment gardens in front of the Burns statue near the bandstand." London WC2.

Peter captured The Burns statue in daylight.

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  • 04 May 2018

They follow Miles when he gives up on them.

Ray Glenister identifies what should have been obvious years ago......Eccleston Mews, London SW1 and supports with a capture from Google Earth. (RL), now replaced by SJ also kicking himself.

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  • 04 May 2018

A dark mews possibly behind the arch seen above.

In the daylight it is a light mews, Eccleston Mews in Belgravia, London SW1 to be exact as identified by Ray. (RL). And now by SJ

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  • 04 May 2018

Hawkins and Dahl approach the mews house cautiously.

That wall in the background (very light in the "then") belongs across Belgrave Road. SJ