Stock Car

Date: 1955
Director: Wolf Rilla
Production Company: Balblair Productions

Stars: Paul Carpenter, Rona Anderson, Susan Shaw
Location(s): London, Middlesex, Surrey

Region(s): ,

Storyline:

An unscrupulous creditor is determined to take over as a woman attempts to save her father’s failing garage after he is killed during a stock car race.

Additional Information:

Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson

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Traffic moves slowly northward along Brompton Road. Brompton Road in London SW3.

Some of the buidlings still remain behind the trees. SJ

The camera finds a Man walking towards a pub. Looking south-west along Brompton Road in Knightsbridge.

A lot busier with street clutter as well as people. SJ

Outside the pub, the Man passes a piece of paper to Monty Albright (Harry Fowler} before he enters. Facing the Crown & Sceptre public house at 132 Brompton Road. The pub also appears in 'Game for Three Losers'.

On the corner with Montpelier Street and the pub is lost to a Prêt-à-Manger or more simply Pret. SJ

Another Man hands over a betting slip to Monty before walking away. Looking north-east at the corner of Brompton Road SW3 and Montpellier Street SW7 with Harrods Department Store in the background.

Harrods is currently draped externally, with a good likeness, for maintenance. SJ

Jack (Patrick Jordan) and Monty look over a Lincoln Zephyr that a Woman has parked nearby. Brompton Road in Knightsbridge with El Cubano at the corner of Beaufort Gardens across the street.

The corner has changed. SJ

Monty walks to the drivers side door. Brompton Road SW3.

Bits and pieces of building survive on Brompton Road. SJ

Jack waits for Monty to get in. Brompton Road in Knightsbridge.

No sign of the telephone kiosk. SJ

The two speed away as the Woman comes out of a shop. Looking north on Montpellier Street SW7 with the Talbot public house on the corner of Montpellier Place to the left and properties on Montpellier Square in the distance. The area appears in 'Two Gentlemen Sharing'.

With building works to the left along with accompanying vans, I stepped to the right to capture the old Talbot pub which was renamed the Tea Clipper and has since closed. SJ

With engine still revving, the Zephyr turns into a mews. Ennismore Gardens Mews SW7 with the corner of Ennismore Gardens and Ennismore Street beyond the arch. The mews can also be seen in 'Nowhere to Go', 'The Fourth Square', 'The Guilty Party', 'The Vicious Circle', 'Frenzy', 'That Kind of Girl' and 'The Sex Thief'.

I've been here a few times for this graceful arch. SJ

Tyres squeal as the car comes to a stand. Ennismore Gardens Mews in Knightsbridge.

Dappled in autumnal sunshine. SJ

Inside his mews house, Turk McNeil carries on his bookmaking business. The upper windows of 26a Ennismore Gardens Mews in Knightsbridge SW7.

The flower boxes have gone. SJ

Monty and Jack take the Zephyr to a garage formerly owned by Walter Glebe who was killed in a stock car crash a month previously. Facing north-west on Hersham Road at Halfway, Walton-on-Thames in Surrey with Felcott Road to the right.

Nick Boorman returned to the junction.

Hoping that the car can be converted for the track, Monty turns into the forecourt. The garage at the corner of Hersham Road and Felcott Road.

John Harwood took a trip to Walton and picked up another Reelstreets fan in the paint shop. (SJ)

The Lincoln Zephyr comes to a stand outside the garage that Turk McNeil intends to own. Halfway Garage on Hersham Road, Walton-on-Thames.

John H. panned right. (SJ)

Jack spots a Police Motorcyclist approach the garage. Looking north-west on Hersham Road in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.

Still leafy. John again. (SJ)

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Katie Glebe drives Monty to the hospital after his hand is trapped in the Zephyr's door. Looking north-east on Bridge Street, Walton-on-Thames.

The power house at Walton Studios, now the Cecil Hepworth Playhouse, on Hurst Grove in Walton-on-Thames.

John obseerves a blue plaque to Cecil Hepworth as a British Film pioneer to our left of the entrance. (SJ)

When Monty tries to avoid the hospital, Katie Glebe (Rona Anderson) leads him inside. The area in front of the power house at Walton Studios with buildings on Bridge Street in the background.

John again ... I wonder how many bins Reelstreets has snapped over the years. (SJ)

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Turk McNeil's girlfriend Gina pulls over after checking out the garage. Facing north-east on Bridge Street in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey.

Gina (Susan Shaw) telephones Turk, telling him to get Monty and Jack to meet her outside the stadium at ten to nine that evening. Outside number 55 Bridge Street, Walton-on-Thames.

John reckons the boarded up bit could be the phone box niche. (SJ)

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Katie's new business partner and former friend of her father Larry Duke takes part in a stock car race at Westingay Stadium.

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According to IMDb, this is Staines Stadium on Hythe End in Staines, Middlesex.

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During the Special Invitation Championship, a car crashes giving Monty third place in the customised Lincoln Zephyr.

Roberto Mancini (Robert Rietty) watches Larry and Katie set off on their honeymoon. In front of the Halfway Garage on Hersham Road, Walton-on-Thames in Surrey.

And John winds up his Walton foray. (SJ)