Miranda
Date: 1948
Director: Ken Annakin
Production Company: Sydney Box Productions, Gainsborough Pictures
Stars: Glynis Johns, Googie Withers, Griffith Jones, John McCallum, David Tomlinson, Margaret Rutherford
Location(s): Cornwall, London
Region(s): London M-N, South West
Storyline:
A young married Doctor discovers a mermaid and gives in to her request to be taken to see London.
Additional Information:
Screen captures uploaded by Phil Wilkinson
Jimmy Snow, special effects technician, for whom we have a fulsome summary of his career written by his granddaughter Brigitte, together with her memories of him, worked on this film. All that she has shared with us can be read here.
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- Capture 1
- 'Now' required
Leaving his wife at home, Dr. Paul Martin goes on holiday to the Cornish coast where he is 'captured' by Miranda, a mermaid. Polperro in Cornwall. 'Another Time, Another Place', 'Behemoth, the Sea Monster', 'The Manxman', 'Mad About Men' and 'Break in the Circle' visited the location too.
- Capture 2
- 02 Aug 2014
The Doctor agrees to take Miranda to see the sights London. A stock shot of Piccadilly Circus.
The same location now. Image by Peter.
- Capture 3
- 26 Dec 2022
Dressmaker Monsieur Manell is contacted to provide long dresses to cover Miranda's tail. Another stock shot of a London street. 'Shilpot' of Britmovie.co.uk places this as the corner of Hay Hill and Berkeley Street, London W1. (RL)
Looking south towards Piccadilly. SJ
- Capture 4
- 08 Sep 2016
An establishing shot of the Martin's Thames side apartment block where the Doctor's wife reads a letter saying that her husband is bringing a patient to live with them for three weeks. Not Thames side really, but St James's Court on Prince Albert Road, London NW8 says Jules Ballantyne. The building can also be seen in 'Meet Mr Callaghan', 'A Touch of Larceny' and 'For Members Only'. (RL)
The trees have grown somewhat and a top floor has been added. (RL)
- Capture 5
- 'Now' required
At a Cornish halt, Dr Martin prepares to lift Miranda onto the branch line train. Peter Brown believes this to be Golant Station on the Lostwithiel-Fowey Branch. The background and lamp standards being correct, as well as the previous few frames showing the river estuary. The waiting shelter and its support steel work is also correct but the cladding appears to have changed by the 1960's. (RL)
- Capture 6
- 'Now' required
An express train takes the two towards London as a barrel of oysters and a box of fish are delivered to the Martin's flat. Moorswater Viaduct on the line between Plymouth and Truro.
- Capture 7
- 26 Sep 2022
Charles, the Martin's chauffeur, arrives at Paddington station. Paddington station cab road running alongside Eastbourne Terrace. Also used in 'Brandy for the Parson', 'Miranda' and 'The October Man'.
The rebuilt area looking south today. SJ
- Capture 8
- 29 Jan 2017
Dr Martin carries Miranda from the train. Likely to be a pair of 'doubles' at Paddington station W2.
I'm hoping this is the correct platform. SJ
- Capture 9
- 01 May 2014
After Miranda starts flirting with every man she meets, Nurse Carey takes the mermaid to the home of Nigel, an artist friend of the Martins. King's Road in Chelsea SW3 with Lincoln Street on the extreme left. The corner was also seen in 'The London Nobody Knows' and 'Say Hello to Yesterday'.
Peter found that the buildings haven't changed much in nearly 70 years.
- Capture 10
- 05 Jul 2021
Charles (David Tomlinson) takes Miranda (Glynis Johns) to the zoo where they watch seals being fed. London Zoo in Regent's Park, London NW1. Other parts of the zoo were seen in 'Bedazzled', 'An Alligator Named Daisy' and 'Subterfuge'.
Occupation by the tiger enclosure has made direct comparison impossible but this is. or rather was, the sea-lion area, which they're looking at in the capture. SJ
- Capture 11
- 24 May 2022
When Miranda disappears from the flat, Dr Paul Martin runs out and sees her heading for the river. Supposedly somewhere along Chelsea Embankment or Grosvenor Road judging by the next few frames, but Jules Ballantyne located St James's Court on Prince Albert Road, London NW8. (RL)
Peter took a picture of the building back in Nov 2016 but there are two entrances facing Prince Albert Road and this is the south-west one. SJ