Virgin Witch

Date: 1972
Director: Ray Austin
Production Company: Tigon British Film Productions, Univista Productions

Stars: Ann Michelle, Vicki Michelle, Patricia Haines, Keith Buckley
Location(s): London, Surrey

Region(s): ,

Storyline:

Sisters Christine and Betty travel to a remote mansion for a modelling job, only to discover that Christine is being recruited by a coven of witches.

Additional Information:

Page compiled by Steve Randall

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Two sisters running away from home trudge through dark streets, when a stranger offers them a lift to London. As he drives off with them a glimpse of a pub can be seen.

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As driver Johnny passes another house, the girls tell him that Christine is interested in modelling. He lets a room out to them.

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The girls Christine (Ann Michelle) and Betty (Vicki Michelle) go shopping in town. 12-14 Church Road, Wimbledon SW19.

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As they cross the street, 15 Church Road is seen behind them.

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Betty heads off for the Labour Exchange. 9-13 Church Road, Wimbledon.

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Drawn to a magazine, Christine finds a feature about Sybil Waite who runs a Model Agency. The pub advertising Double Diamond in the background was The Castle at 27-29 Church Road. It's now The Fire Stables, named after the stables behind the pub which were once used to house Wimbledon's first fire engine.

Sybil Waite (Patricia Haines) finds Christine an assignment and drives the girls to the shooting location. Thames Side, Chertsey, Surrey, approaching Chertsey Bridge.

The entrance to Chertsey Lock today.

The car is seen through the arches of Chertsey Bridge.

Signs of the minor restoration work done in 1991.

The car heads west over Chertsey Bridge. To the left is the boathouse which became Chertsey Lock nightclub in the 1980s, confirmed by then resident DJ Paul Linney. In 1999 it was replaced by the Kingfisher pub.

Couldn't get the elevated angle of the original, and the large tree now obscures the view.

Cut to a junction where the car turns left. Nick Boorman located the junction of Bridge Road and Weir Road in Chertsey, Surrey.

Nick captured the view at the blind corner where it would be advisable not to "jump the lights".

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The destination is reached. This is Admiral's Walk Pirbright, Surrey, an early 20th-century house owned at the time by a Baron and Baroness, who rented it out as a film location.

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The car draws up at the entrance to the house. Admiral's Walk.

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Sybil shows Christine around the garden. Admiral's Walk.

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Sybil walks with Christine in the back garden. It emerges Sybil is a hight priestess of a coven of witches, which Christine is increasingly drawn towards. Admiral's Walk.

Johnny (Keith Buckley) is heading for the mansion to rescue Betty. Facing Millbrook Lodge on Chertsey Road, just outside of the centre of Shepperton village, identified by Nick Boorman.

Nick found that the windows are now a different shape and house is painted white.

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Cut to presumably a reverse pov.

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Johnny reaches a Friary Meux pub advertising "Treble Gold". Unknown location.

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The house next to the pub.

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Johnny arrives at a hotel. Worplesdon Place Hotel, Perry Hill, Worplesdon, Surrey.

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Johnny sees a girl leave the hotel that he recognises from Sybil's potographs. There follows scenes of nudity, sorcery and sacrificial rites back at the mansion, but unfortunately no locations, so we can't show you those.