Dilemma
Date: 1962
Director: Peter Maxwell
Production Company: Association of Cinema Technicians (A.C.T.)
Stars: Peter Halliday, Ingrid Hafner, Patricia Burke, Joan Heath, Patrick Jordan
Location(s): London
Region(s): London C-D
Storyline:
A respectable schoolmaster returns from work to find a stranger dead in the bathroom and his wife missing.
Additional Information:
Screen captures by Raymond Edwards and published by Phil Wilkinson
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- Capture 1
- 19 Mar 2019
The film opens on the street where events take place. This is Ormond Crescent in Hampton, Greater London identified by Richard Lovejoy.
The telegraph pole remains standing and the manhole cover in the driveway is still there in Antony Blair's view.
- Capture 2
- 19 Mar 2019
Beneath the titles, Edna Jones (Patricia Burke) crosses the road. Ormond Crescent again, found by RL.
Antony's image faces the same direction.
- Capture 3
- 19 Mar 2019
The majority of the film centres on Mr. Barnes inside his house but here’s his wife, Jean Barnes (Ingrid Hafner) leaving the property after hurting her hand.
The same property on Ormond Crescent captured by Antony Blair who note's that the gate has been relocated.
- Capture 4
- 19 Mar 2019
Schoolmaster Harry Barnes (Peter Halliday) arrives home to discover his wife missing and a body in the bathroom. Ormond Crescent in Hampton, recognised by Richard.
Antony found that the garage has been converted too.
- Capture 5
- 27 Feb 2019
Jean approaches the hospital where her injury is attended to. Richard Savage advises that this is outside the West Middlesex Hospital on Twickenham Road in Isleworth. The telephone box and bus shelter give the position away.
The telephone box has gone but relying on the bus stop, the tree and the street lighting it feels right too. Gone are the days when you can safely stand in the road. (RL)
- Capture 6
- 22 Oct 2016
This is the former P&O Orient Lines offices, now the Brazilian Embassy, at the corner of Cockspur Street and Pall Mall in SW1.
Peter found refurbishment going on, but luckily not affecting the starring building.
- Capture 7
- 11 Jan 2017
In his Mini, Peter approaches a builder’s yard. The taller wall with two small windows can also be seen in "Ghost Camera". (RL)
The Barons, Twickenham with the Film Studios on the immediate right. (RL)
- Capture 8
- 22 Oct 2016
Mrs. Barnes passes The Chartered Bank as she continues through London. Facing northward on the east side of Regent Street near the corner of Charles II Street, located by Richard Lovejoy.
There's more flora in Peter's modern comparison.
- Capture 9
- 22 Oct 2016
Jean crosses Regent Street at the junction with Charles II Street SW1.
The same corner now by Peter.
- Capture 10
- 16 Nov 2016
After making a call, Mrs. Barnes leaves one of a row of four K2 telephone boxes.
Nigel Matthews has resolved this one, Westminster Central Hall on the corner of Storeys Gate and Victoria Street, London SW1. Whilst sending his shot of the same location, witnessing significant changes, he reminds us that the Central Hall hosted an exhibition in 1966 that included the Football World Cup and during which it was stolen. Later to be found in South London by a dog called Pickles. (RL)