Crimes of Stephen Hawke, The
Date: 1936
Director: George King
Production Company: George King Productions
Stars: Tod Slaughter, Marjorie Taylor, D. J. Williams, Eric Portman, Graham Soutten
Location(s): London, Middlesex
Region(s): London C-D, South East A-D
Storyline:
The police appear powerless to stop a vicious murderer from terrorising London.
Additional Information:
Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson
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- Capture 1
- 14 Oct 2021
Following an introduction by Tod Slaughter, a series of cross-fades featuring London scenes appear. Here’s the Houses of Parliament in SW1 seen across Parliament Square from Great George Street.
Eventually the scaffolding will go. SJ
- Capture 2
- 14 Oct 2021
The sequence settles on a view of Piccadilly Circus in W1.
As one can see, Anteros has moved to the right but we are still looking towards Shaftesbury Avenue. SJ
- Capture 3
- 'Now' required
Obscured by bushes, money-lender Stephen Hawke (Tod Slaughter) sketches the front of a large house.
- Capture 4
- 28 Jun 2021
A Nanny (Annie Esmond) comes out of the house following a Young Boy who makes his way to where Hawke is lying in wait. Littleton Manor House in the grounds of Shepperton Studios, at the time of filming in Middlesex. The building is seen in many other production including 'Rotten to the Core', 'Make Mine a Million', 'Allez France!', 'The Belles of St. Trinian’s', 'Cockleshell Heroes', 'The Earth Dies Screaming' and 'Law and Disorder'.
Littleton House now by GS.