Personal and Confidential (The Scales of Justice)

Date: 1965
Director: Geoffrey Nethercott
Production Company: Merton Park Studios

Stars: Ellen McIntosh, Robert Cartland, Harry Littlewood, Howard Lang, David Morrell, Windsor Davies, Geoffrey Toone
Location(s): London

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Storyline:

A Government minister’s aide is accused of passing papers to an enemy agent but her solicitor suggests that she has been framed. 

Additional Information:

Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson

Number 7 in the series of cinema featurettes produced between 1962 and 1967 for Anglo-Amalgamated

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"The case began high above the city streets." The Hilton Hotel on Park Lane in London W1.

Taken from the west side of Park Lane. SJ

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"One of the most sensational ever to be tried in a court of law." Through the smog, a panning shot finds Curzon Street with South Audley Street in the left foreground.

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"And here to introduce the story is famous criminologist and authority on the legal system . . . " Looking towards Chesterfield House on South Audley Street with Stanhope Gate to the bottom left.

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". . . Edgar Lustgarten." This view over Mayfair appears to have been taken from the roof of the Playboy Club at the corner of Park Lane and Curzon Street in W1.

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In the Metropolitan Hotel, a Waiter looks through the window of room 755 to see the body of guest Mr. Harry Wood on the ground below.

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A few days later, distinguished member of government Sir Joseph Kenton flies into London after another of his state missions abroad.

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Following a press conference, Sir Joseph accompanies his personal aide and foreign relations expert Marion Corbett to her home. The gateway to Ross Court on Putney Hill SW15.

John Harwood found Ross Court very much a gated community and though enlisted the help of the caretaker found some angles a bit tricky along with the removal of the arched gateway which was only a few years ago. (SJ)

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The car draws up outside the entrance of the apartment block where Miss Corbett lives alone. Ross Court in Putney.

John adds that Ross of Ross Court won the Nobel Prize hence the name. At one time Gordon Selfridge of Selfridges lived here. (SJ)

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Sir Joseph's Chauffeuse opens the door for Marion Corbett (Ellen McIntosh). Ross Court, a group of mansion blocks at the Tibbet's Corner end of Putney Hill.

A corner of Ross Court from JOhn. (SJ)

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Gibbs (Harry Littlewood) appears and greets Marion as she enters the building where Intelligence Officers Wilfred Sloane and John Wilson call on her after she makes a phone call to room 755 at the Metropolitan Hotel. The entrance to flats 1 to 8 Ross Court.

The entrance now from John. (SJ)

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Solicitor Charles Abridge (Jeffrey Segal) and Detective Lane (Billy Milton) leave the prison where Marion is being detained.

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In his Mini, a Detective looks for a parking space as a taxi turns into the road behind. Eaton Place in SW1, facing north near the junction with Lyall Street found by Steve Randall, .

From ground level. A similar view, perhaps from the same window or balcony, appeared in another Scale of Justice appeared in The Invisible Asset. SJ

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The cab stops to pick up Ronald Chadwell (Robert Cartland) as he leaves his house. Steve Randall spotted numbers 81 to 85 Eaton Place.

Again from ground level until we can achieve elevation. The west end of Eaton Place was also seen in The Crying Game, Piccadilly Third Stop and The World Ten Times Over. SJ

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At a department store, former CID Officer Abbot watches Chadwell pass an envelope containing cash to Gibbs in exchange for passports

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Abbot (Howard Lang) follows Gibbs back to the apartment block where he works as a porter. The gateway of Ross Court on Putney Hill in Putney SW15.

John H. points out that the original Putney Hill is now grassed over but this is where the bus-stop would have been, roughly. (SJ)