Green Grow the Rushes

Date: 1951
Director: Derek N. Twist
Production Company: British Lion Films Ltd.

Stars: Roger Livesey, Honor Blackman, Richard Burton, Frederick Leister
Location(s): Kent

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Storyline:

A group of enterprising smugglers make use of an ancient charter to smuggle brandy into the southern coast of England. When their ship is seized it looks like they are in trouble until the Customs Officers try & find out where the brandy went.

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New Romney, Kent, High Street.

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St Nicholas' Church, New Romney.

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The church in the background is St Nicholas, the barn has gone and a housing estate stands there now. The Cathedral of the Marshes, the three points of St. Nicholas' are back left.

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St. Nicholas Church, Church Lane, New Romney. SD

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The scenes showing the boat in the duck pond were filmed at Elstree Studios. Information from filmsofthefifties.com. SD

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The farmhouse was fake but the farmyard was real. SD

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Where the new estate is off Church Lane.

Ashdown Crescent. The estate was built in 1983 and one of the residents who has lived in New Romney for 80 years remembers seeing the farmhouse set. SD

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'Get off my land!'. The fake farmhouse location. SD

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Church Lane, New Romney, with the school on the left.

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Identified by Kay Maney as Poplar Hall, Kings Street, Brookland, Romney Marsh. The 18th century house was demolished in the early 1960's. (SD)

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Poplar Hall, Kings Street, Brookland, Romney Marsh. Identified by Kay Maney. The house was also seen in 'The Loves of Joanna Godden'. (SD)

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The Red House' in Madeira road, Littlestone, found by Matt Smith. Matt says: "The property is now converted into 6 flats, the resident on the first floor said filming took place on the ground floor and outside and specifically involved Richard Burton, but this may just be hearsay."

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Rye Harbour.

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