Delayed Action
Date: 1954
Director: John Harlow
Production Company: Kenilworth Film Productions
Stars: Robert Ayres, June Thorburn, Alan Wheatley
Location(s): London
Region(s): London C-D
Storyline:
Suicidal-prone man agrees to be paid by criminal to delay his demise but then has a change of heart. SJ
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- Capture 1
- 06 Apr 2014
Ayres ready for a leap into the Thames. Is that Hammersmith Bridge? One for John.
From the east side of the Riverside studios, W6. SJ
- Capture 2
- 20 Nov 2015
Nell Gwynn House, Sloane Avenue SW3 with thanks to Alan Field. The building is also seen in 'Recoil', 'Invisible Asset', 'The Firechasers' and a short called 'The Spy's Wife' from 1972.
A better angle now replaces Alan's Google capture. SJ
- Capture 3
- 20 Nov 2015
A side view of the above.
A stair redesign. SJ
- Capture 4
- 04 Jun 2013
A park: there's a hut in the middle and a lake to the right with a small island.
Richard Lovejoy on the case. "Barnes Pond. It is difficult to find the exact location after all these years but at least the island is still there".
- Capture 5
- 11 Jul 2016
Wish those street signs were legible.
They are in "Double Exposure" (Awaiting upload) where an almost identical shot is used. The corner of Brown Street and Harrowby Street, London W1, unfortunately from ground level. (RL)
- Capture 6
- 'Now' required
Nice cottage.
- Capture 7
- 'Now' required
Wheatley and Ayres
- Capture 8
- 'Now' required
Best cottage shot.
- Capture 9
- 24 Nov 2017
Very tough but could this handsomely-tiled building be protected?
"Handsomely-tiled indeed, a month or two late to capture the lower tiles, maybe taken off for safety, but all is far from lost. http://www.olympiccinema.co.uk tells you all and more and bring joy to your heart." Richard Lovejoy who took the picture. Christopher Matheson confirms that Rodney Scott was at 121 Church Road, London SW13. To replace the 11/2012 now when it was shrouded in scaffolding, and yes they did preserve the tiles. RL)
- Capture 10
- 'Now' required
Hmmm, nice big houses. Twickenham-ish? ... or Castelnau-ish, SW13?
- Capture 11
- 04 Apr 2016
More docklandy. Christopher Matheson points out that it is actually more "film studioy" just down the road from Riverside Studios, in fact St James Street, Hammersmith W6 looking into Crisp Road. That same background building can be seen in 'The Long Arm'. (RL)
The re-developed background and the crane witnesses the current re-development of the Riverside Studios site. (RL)
- Capture 12
- 04 Apr 2016
Ayres and Thorburn at the same place but different angle as above. Christopher Matheson identifies "the angle" as St James Street, Hammersmith, London W6 (RL)
With, for once, an improved re-development. (RL)
- Capture 13
- 20 Nov 2012
Western Bank something on the sign. Maybe a branch of the short-lived Glaswegian bank taken over by RBS? There was a Western Bank of London in Hanover Square but this looks unlikely.
The same branch of the same "bank" as featured in 'The Embezzler', also produced by Kenilworth, and 'Strongroom'. On the corner of St Margaret's Road and The Barons and backing onto the Twickenham Studios and now demolished forming part of the Film Studios. Richard Lovejoy