Crackerjack
Date: 1938
Director: Albert de Courville
Production Company: Gainsborough Pictures
Stars: Tom Walls, Lilli Palmer, Noel Madison
Location(s): Buckinghamshire, Middlesex
Region(s): South East A-D
Storyline:
A man with ‘one hundred faces’ known only as Crackerjack plays a modern-day Robin Hood as he thrills everyone with his exploits of stealing from the rich and giving to the poor.
Additional Information:
Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson
Also known as ‘The Man With 100 Faces’ (US Title)
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- Capture 1
- 25 Apr 2022
In a film full of sets, back projections and models, this is the only genuine location seen. The spire of Christchurch at the corner of New Broadway and Spring Bridge Road in Ealing, Middlesex.
Anthony Blair provides this comparison pointing out that the stone finials have been removed.
- Capture 2
- 04 May 2024
A car carrying Baroness Von Haltz drives through the gateway of Larch Hall. Just outside Pinewood Studios, at the South Entrance on Pinewood Road in Iver, Buckinghamshire. The gates feature in a number of films including ‘The Ghoul’, ‘Carry On Screaming’, ‘Toomorrow’, ‘Up in the World’ and ‘The Amazing Mr. Blunden’.
Antony Blair returned to the gates a frightening 86 years later where he found no vintage car and the gates now permanently closed.
- Capture 3
- 'Now' required
After the car comes to a stand at the entrance, the Baroness gets out and knocks at the door, asking to see Mr. Hambro Golding. The entrance to Heatherden Hall at Pinewood Studios in Iver Heath. The location also appears in ‘The Ware Case’, ‘A Stitch in Time’, 'The Beast in the Cellar', ‘Wombling Free’, ‘The Iron Maiden’ and ‘Nothing but the Night’ amongst many other productions.
- Capture 4
- 'Now' required
As she leaves Larch Hall, Baroness Von Haltz (Lilli Palmer) stops the car before returning to the house with the pretence of retrieving her forgotten handbag. In front of Heatherden Hall in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire.