Enter Inspector Duval

A burglar clambers over city rooftops . . . Alan Bourke recognised the roof of the Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, with Killiney Hill in the background.

The same roof, with the old Mariners' Church, Dun Laoghaire in the background, spotted by Alan Bourke. The Mariners’ Church is now occupied by the National Maritime Museum of Ireland. The church is in Haigh Terrace, near the centre of Dún Laoghaire town, south-east of Dublin city in County Dublin. The spire of the church can be seen in 'Term of Trial'.

The burglar disturbs socialite Alice Alvarez and suffocates her in her bed. The fade into the next scene briefly shows a church previously identified as the Mariners' church, but Pat Cleary points out that the capture is looking northwest and this is in fact St. Michael's on Marine Road.

Pat's comparison shows St. Michael's church tower with The Royal Marine Hotel front entrance to the left. The original church was destroyed by fire in 1965 and only the tower survived. A new church was built a bit further up to the right on Marine Road.

The housemaid, Doreen (Susan Hallinan), arrives and discovers the body. The Royal Marine Hotel, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin.

Pat Cleary captures the hotel entrance as it appears today. The hotel has been very much extended and renovated over the years.

Charley (Charles Roberts), Doreen’s boyfriend who cased the joint, makes a call to summon Brossier who engaged him. In the background is 16 Pembroke Street Lower, Dublin, also to be seen in a later capture.

Visiting the scene Pat Cleary found no phone box and a longtime hoarding not helping the background.

Brossier (Charles Mitchell) drives to meet Charley. Facing south-west on Lower Bridge Street in Dublin 8.

Pat Cleary provides this comparison and notes that 62 years later the street and buildings have been completely modernised.

Brossier walks down an alley to the pub, where Charley demands his cut. The Brazen Head, 20 Lower Bridge Street, Usher's Quay in, Dublin, which claims to be Dublin’s oldest pub.

A wider and gated entrance now, as shown in Pat Cleary's comparison shot.

Brossier heads off to confront Mario, the fence. Pat Cleary recognizes this as Castle Street, Dublin with the City Hall in the background and the entrance to Dublin Castle off to the right. The location appears in 'Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace' as well as 'Shake Hands with the Devil'.

Pat Cleary took advantage of an early Sunday morning to take this excellent comparison shot.

He enters Mario’s office but is unable to convince him to handle the goods. Pat Cleary found this office in Castle Street just to the left of the previous capture.

Pat's comparison shot shows little change, but minus cars and workmen.

Jackie (Diane Hart), a friend of the victim, leaves a restaurant after meeting Inspector Duval, a debonair French detective. The Russell Hotel, located at 101-104 St. Stephens Green South in Dublin. Awarded a Michelin star in 1974 but demolished the same year.

In Pat Cleary's comparison shot the busy junction of Harcourt Street, Cuffe Street and St. Stephen's Green has been completely revamped. The new LUAS tram Green Line running left to right was opened in 2004.

Inspector Duval (Anton Diffring) follows Jackie. The cars head south on St. Stephens Green. Every building seen in this shot has since been demolished for road-widening.

A slightly wider view of the junction today from Pat Cleary.

The cars drive under a bridge. Farmleigh Bridge, 20 Lower Road, Dublin, also known as the Silver Bridge, Guinness Bridge or Strawberry Beds Bridge, carried water and power over the River Liffey, to the Farmleigh Estate owned by the Guinness family.

Pat Cleary supplies the comparison and comments "Stopping here on this narrow, winding road was possible only because the small parking space for a roadside bungalow was unoccupied. Luckily, the next capture 13 is from the same spot."

The camera pans to show the cars following the River Liffey along Lower Road, Dublin.

Pat adds "A tree and a bird on the wall make for more pleasant viewing than the since removed pole."

As the cars continue along Lower Road, the road takes a right-angled bend by a wall.

Courtesy of Pat's dashcam: "This location is about 2 miles west of the bridge seen in Capture 12. Foliage hides the river at road level. Having driven up and down this road with its multiple scruffy speed bumps I felt like I had just ridden around Aintree."

Jackie reaches the gates of the film’s Riversdale, an old house her boyfriend is buying.

Pat Cleary fixed his dashcam sideways to obtain this comparison and adds "64 years later this gateway entrance is alongside the busy N11 dual carriageway at Fasseroe just South of its merger from the M11 at Bray, Co. Wicklow. It leads to a council-operated permanent traveller accommodation site".

Riversdale House . . . Woodbrook on Dublin Road, Cork Great to the north of Bray in County Dublin, also seen in 'Jules Verne’s Rocket to the Moon'.

Pat Cleary supplied this view, the best possible without trespassing on this private estate. The house becomes visible only when the leaves are all downed. 

The Inspector follows Jackie into the house and questions her about her reasons for the trip. Woodbrook, Dublin Road in Cork Great.

More roof-clambering with what looks like the nave of a church in the background. Info from Pat Cleary helps to identify the church as St. Michael's, Dún Laoghaire.

A different angle, with the church tower in view. St. Michael's Church, Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, seen from the roof of the Royal Marine Hotel.

Jackie arrives at the film’s 115 Upper Berkeley Street, to find Brossier has been shot. The corner of Fitzwilliam Square West and Pembroke Street Lower in Dublin, facing south.

The street has become one-way only in Pat Cleary's comparison shot.

When the police arrive, Jackie directs them to Riversdale, mouthed by the dying Brossier. 16 Pembroke Street Lower, Dublin.

Pat Cleary finds an unsightly longtime hoarding obscuring most of the view.

Police arrive at Riversdale as the murderer is driving away. They turn to give chase. Woodbrook, Dublin Road, Cork Great, County Dublin.

The cops eventually catch up with the murderer when cows block the road.

The chase continues on foot. Pat Cleary suggests that this sequence may have been shot at the old Roadstone Fasseroe Quarry nearby.

The murderer runs to higher ground.

And higher . . .

. . . until he eventually loses his footing and plunges to earth.