Miss Tulip Stays the Night

Date: 1955
Director: Leslie Arliss
Production Company: Jaywell

Stars: Diana Dors, Patrick Holt, Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge, A. E. Matthews
Location(s): Middlesex, Surrey

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Storyline:

Taking a break at a country cottage, a crime writer and his wife receive an unexpected visitor who is murdered overnight.

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Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson

Also known as ‘Dead by Morning’ (US Title)

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Author Andrew Dax (Patrick Holt) runs towards his wife Kate (Diana Dors) after flying home.

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Getting into the driving seat of their MG TD, Kate tells her husband that they are not going to London as expected.

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A bumpy journey through the darkness ensues when they are given a lift by Mr. Potts after getting a puncture on the way to Wood Cottage.

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Water seeps into the back of the van as garage owner Mr. Potts drives through a deep ford. This appears to be the ford where the River Ash crosses Watersplash Road in Shepperton, Middlesex which is seen in ‘Psychomania', 'The Night We Got the Bird’ and ‘Make Mine a Million’.

The ford in Watersplash Road, Shepperton which has now been closed off to cars. (SR)

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On the morning that Andrew and Kate find their odd overnight visitor's body in the living room, Constable Feathers (Jack Hulbert) discovers Miss Millicent Tulip's car on the lane outside Wood Cottage.

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Being shown Miss Tulip's corpse, Constable Feathers alerts Detective Inspector Thorne at the police station.

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A Wolesley patrol car takes Sergeant Akers and the Detective Inspector to the Dax's cottage. Jamie Sturgeon spotted New Zealand Avenue, Walton on Thames in Surrey.

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Sergeant Akers (George Roderick) examines Miss Tulip's car.

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Andrew tells Detective Inspector Thorne (Joss Ambler) that he's developing a suspicious mind as he directs his attention towards the crime writer.

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Kate and Andrew are returned home after being questioned at the police station. Lionel Avery recognised a property that he owned from 1991 to 2020, this is Littleton Farm Cottage on New Road in Littleton, Middlesex.

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Deciding to do his own investigating, Andrew takes Constable Feathers' bicycle and pays a night time visit to Miss Tulip's house.