Flesh and Blood Show, The

Date: 1972
Director: Pete Walker
Production Company: Peter Walker (Heritage) Ltd.

Stars: Ray Brooks, Jenny Hanley, Luan Peters, Robin Askwith
Location(s): Norfolk

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Storyline:

Actors rehearsing a show at a mysterious seaside theatre are being killed off by an unknown maniac.

Additional Information:

Screen captures uploaded by Phil Wilkinson from source material provided by John Tunstill.

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Actress Julia Dawson (Jenny Hanley) appears in her first film. An unidentified location.

An establishing shot of a very miserable and cold looking beach. Apart from the first capture, there's only one location - Cromer, Norfolk.

Cromer, Norfolk.

Martin Skipper send us this much clearer view of the same location. (RL)

Seaside mist surrounds the town's pier. Cromer Pier, Cromer in Norfolk.

A somewhat clearer day and enlarged pier.

Carol Edwards (Luan Peters) and Jane Frewin (Judy Matheson) arrive at the gloomy resort of Eastcliffe. Cromer station on Holt Road.

The buffers remain but a supermarket has been built on the goods yard.

The camera pans with the girls as they make their way from the train. Cromer station.

A very different scene now awaits the traveller.

Carol and Jane cross the platform. Cromer station.

Martin found that there is now a more open plan approach to the station. (RL)

The pair head for the station exit. Holt Road, Cromer.

The half-timbered style part of the original station remains as a public house but the rest has been demolished.

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Major Bell (Patrick Barr) obliges when the actresses ask for directions to the Dome Theatre. Cromer station again.

The two make their way out of the station and on towards the sea front. Cromer station once more.

The doorway has changed but the three white first floor "supports" to the left remain.

The members of 'Theatre Group 40' begin to assemble before entering the disused Dome Theatre. The entrance to Cromer Pier on the Esplanade. The location can be seen in 'Our Miss Fred' as well as ‘Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa’.

25 years on and Marty Wilde is booked for Cromer Pier.

Looking landward from Cromer Pier with the Church of St Peter and St Paul on the extreme right.

A clearer view at least!

Panning from the previous capture as, inside the theatre, the group rehearse. Cromer in Norfolk.

With added commercial clutter.

Martin provides this additional capture as he feels we did not do Cromer locations justice. This is to the East of Cromer pier. the ironwork is identical, only now an extra canopy is added to the lower section.(RL)

The ironwork is remains, only now an extra canopy is added to the lower section. (RL)

This is a second additional capture from Martin. (RL)

Cromer, Norfolk

Showing the upstairs on the shelter, in the film there is seating, but now used as beach-hut/lock-ups. (RL)

Mike Archer (Ray Brooks) walks with Julia as she describes a feeling of déjà vu that she felt in the dressing room. Cromer Pier.

Now with the "new" lifeboat station.

The pair talk about their experiences in the increasingly spooky theatre and the disappearance of cast members. The beach at Cromer with the Pier in the background.

Even the remaining stalwarts are packing up to leave.

Whilst Julia researches through copies of recent local newspapers, Mike and the rest of the cast walk along the sea front.

On a clear day you can see the Pier.

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Mike invites Major Bell to watch a rehearsal as two fishermen shout from their boat that someone is in trouble in the water under the pier. Cromer Pier.

Simon Wright provides this sunny comparison.

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The Major follows Mike as he runs to assist before finding Carol's body. Unconfirmed location.

Inspector Walsh (Raymond Young) is called in to investigate. Cromer Pier, Norfolk.

Martin even managed to find some scaffolding for us on the pier. (RL)

The Inspector makes his way back to the police station. Looking towards the town from Cromer Pier.

More colourful now.

During a flashback, the Major abandons his daughter Julia on the steps of the police station and is revealed to be the killer of the cast. The Magistrates Court next to the Police Station opposite the railway station on Holt Road in Cromer, Norfolk.

Soon to be converted to a retirement home.

A repeat of the previous capture showing the Magistrates Court opposite the railway station . . . .

. . . which has since been replaced by the retirement home as Richard Brown's new comparison shows.