Meet Me Tonight

Date: 1952
Director: Anthony Pelissier
Production Company: J. Arthur Rank Organisation, British Film-Makers

Stars: Valerie Hobson, Stanley Holloway, Nigel Patrick, Ted Ray, Kay Walsh, Jack Warner
Location(s): Alpes-Maritimes

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An omnibus film adapted from three of Noël Coward’s cycle of one-act plays entitled ‘Tonight at 8.30’

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Page compiled by Phil Wilkinson

Also known as ‘Tonight at 8:30’ (US Title)

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Three stories are played out at Pinewood Studios. Firstly, 'The Red Peppers' in which a Husband and Wife song and dance act continually bicker with each other while in 'Fumed Oak', a middle-aged Man has finally had enough of his family and leaves home. For the final story, 'Ways and Means', we see some second unit footage of the south of France. Promenade des Anglais follows the seafront at Nice, Alpes-Maritimes.

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Cut to the Old Town where a Jeweller examines a piece of jewellery brought in by Murdoch and declares it to be synthetic. Rue Guigonis, leading down from Rue Jouan Nicola, Nice.

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A Policemen watches Murdoch leave the shop and get into his car. Boulevard Mac-Mahon with the Nice Municipal Casino on Place Massena as the background.

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Starting the De Soto Airflow Coupe, the Chauffeur drives away. Facing northward on Place Massena.

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Murdoch heads out of the town . . .

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. . . towards Villa Zéphyr where his employer Olive has lost her $50,000 ruby bracelet.