Small Voice, the
Date: 1948
Director: Fergus McDonell
Production Company: Constellation Films
Stars: Valerie Hobson, James Donald, Howard Keel
Location(s): London
Region(s): London R-S
Storyline:
A husband and wife stop to help two men in a car crash only to find they are criminals on the run.
Additional Information:
Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson
Also known as ‘The Hideout’ (US Title)
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An Older Couple arrive at the home of their Friends on a road near Dartmoor Prison.
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At the front door of the bungalow the two couples exchange pleasantries.
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The sound of car doors slamming alerts the friends that the car has been stolen.
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A Woman finishes hanging out her clean washing before returning moments later to find shirts missing.
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Outside a tailors shop, a young Boy stands aside when two men get out of a car and smash the window. This appears to be a shop window built across the entrance to Riverside Studios on Crisp Road W6 as the Crisp Dining Rooms on the corner of Chancellors Street is revealed in the reflection.
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The Boy watches the Men get back into their car. Looking across to number 15 Crisp Road at the corner of Chancellors Street in Hammersmith.
13 and 15 Crisp road were demolished. (RL)
- Capture 7
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Doors slam shut and the stolen car accelerates away. Facing west on Crisp Road with buildings on River Terrace behind the prop letter box. The location and the streets around feature in many productions including ‘Mandy’, ‘Recoil’, ‘Breakaway’, ‘Love in Pawn’, ‘Wheel of Fate’, 'The Invisible Asset', ‘Delayed Action’ and ‘The Long Arm’.
The view as it is now without the foreground feature. (RL)
- Capture 8
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A Shopkeeper steps into the road as the Vauxhall with Boke, Jim and Frankie inside disappears. Looking along Crisp Road towards the Cannon public house on Queen Caroline Street in Hammersmith W6.
The same shot as for the previous capture as only the foreground feature changed. (RL)
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Following a night time police chase along unrecognisable lanes Murray Byrne (James Donald) waits on the platform at Llanbach station which, unlike a station seen earlier in the film, appears to be almost genuine.
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Smoke from the engine envelopes the train as it comes to a stand before Eleanor Byrne (Valerie Hobson) alights. Without the engine being seen, this is likely to be a studio set.
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The couple arrive home with Boke and Jim after picking them up from the bend in the road where the stolen Vauxhall had crashed.
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A Police patrol approaches the Byrne's house as they and their family are held prisoner by the escaped convicts.