Inquest

Date: 1939
Director: Roy Boulting
Production Company: Charter Film Productions

Stars: Elizabeth Allan, Herbert Lomas, Hay Petrie, Barbara Everest
Location(s): Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, London

Region(s): ,

Storyline:

When a young woman is accused of murder she enlists the support of a King’s Counsel to help prove her innocence.

Additional Information:

Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson

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“The office of Coroner is of great antiquity and no satisfactory account of its origin can be given . . . . It is even more difficult to give a satisfactory reason for its continuance.” Looking over Aldbury in Hertfordshire from Tom’s Hill Road to the east of the village.

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The streets of fictional Redcombe are empty. Facing north on High Street, Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire, also seen in 'Something Money Can't Buy', Mad About Men', and 'Emil and the Detectives'. (SR)

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Its late afternoon and the sound of birdsong and leather on willow drifts through the village. The clock belongs to St. John the Baptist church on Station Road in Albury. The village of Aldbury is also seen in ‘You Can't Escape’, 'Web of Suspicion', 'Bridget Jones: Edge of Reason', 'A Warm December', ‘The Dirty Dozen’, 'Stop Press Girl', 'Jassy' and 'The Shilingbury Blowers'.

Antony Blair made time to take this image of the south facing clock face.

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A cricket match is in progress on the green.

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Spectators watch the leisurely game before a gunshot rings out from the direction of Cove Cottage.

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Having found a loaded revolver in his loft, William Trelease spreads a rumor that is the weapon used to murder Mrs. Margaret Hamilton’s husband Tommy before she moved to London. The roof protruding over the oriel window behind the sign gives this away as the King's Head Hotel on Station Road in Ivinghoe, Buckinghamshire.

Seems like the now disused bracket was replaced at some time in Antony Blair's shot.

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Bearing a grudge against Mrs. Hamilton after a court case, William Trelease (Charles Stevenson) makes his way to see his neighbour George Clark.

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William asks George if he can recall hearing a shot on the day that Tommy died.

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Sunday dawns and the villagers head to church. This is St. Margaret's Church, Chippenham, Ely, Cambridgeshire. (SR)

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The gossip suggesting that Margaret had killed her husband spreads. St. Margaret's Church, Chippenham. (SR)

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When the police become involved, Margaret’s close friend Richard Neale asks his King’s Counsel father to help. Whitehall in SW1 with the North Block containing the Home Office filling the view.

Traffic-free! SJ

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Records are checked to ascertain if a will was left or any insurance was held by the dead man.

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The story attracts the attention of national newspapers. Either a second unit or ‘borrowed’ shot, facing east on Fleet Street EC4 with St. Paul’s Cathedral on Ludgate Hill in the distance. Similar views also appear in 'Brothers in Law', 'The Primitives', 'Sea Wife', 'Dangerous Afternoon', 'Wedding Rehearsal', 'Children of Men', 'Derby Day' and 'Strange Bedfellows'.

Taken from almost the same spot. (PW)

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Members of the Press spring to life as Margaret Hamilton (Elizabeth Allan) and Richard Neale (Philip Friend) leave for the country.

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That evening, their chauffeur driven car brings the couple to a hotel near the village ready for the following day’s inquest. The Kings Head on Station Road in Ivinghoe, Buckinghamshire with the junction formed by Church Street and High Street in the right background . . . and there's the sign seen earlier in the shadows to the top left. Antony Blair updates us in August 2025 that the premises are now the Ashridge Day Nursery for Children and the building looks completely different as all the ivy has been removed.

Peter Ashman ventured out to capture this view of the building now.