Saloon Bar

Date: 1940
Director: Walter Forde
Production Company: Ealing Studios

Stars: Gordon Harker, Elizabeth Allan, Mervyn Johns, Joyce Barbour
Location(s): London

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Storyline:

A bookmaker sets out to clear an innocent man of murder before the morning of his execution.

Additional Information:

Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson

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  • 04 Jun 2021

The gaol where Eddie Graves awaits execution for murder is played by Wandsworth Prison on Heathfield Road in London SW18. The location features in many productions including 'The Cracksman', 'Information Received', 'There Was a Crooked Man', 'Out of the Fog' and ‘The Criminal’.

The chimneys have gone. SJ

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A set at the studio, this is outside the titular ‘Saloon Bar’ of the The Cap and Bells public house in and around which Joe Harris (Gordon Harker) searches for the real killer.