Extra Day, The
Date: 1956
Director: William Fairchild
Production Company: William Fairchild Productions, British Lion Films
Stars: Richard Basehart, Simone Simon, George Baker
Location(s): Middlesex
Region(s): South East E-L
Storyline:
When the can containing the final scene of a film is lost, the extras have to be found and recalled to the set.
Additional Information:
Screen captures by Phil Wilkinson
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With the final scene for ‘Punch Without Judy’ completed, Assistant Director Joe Blake (Richard Baseheart) and Harry Thackeray (Bryan Forbes) listen as extra Barney West (Sidney James) asks for work as a stunt man.
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As she gets into her car, Joe catches up with Toni Howard (Josephine Griffin) and asks her out. The, now undercover, entrance to Stage D at Shepperton Studios.
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Barney watches Joe walk away after Toni drives off having explained that she's getting married the next day. In front of Stage D with the sloping roof of the adjacent workshops in the left background.
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Bert drives away with the can containing the final reel of ‘Punch Without Judy’ and sets off to the labs to deliver the film before the boxing starts on television., Facing south outside Stage B. The roads between the sound stages at Shepperton Studios have been used as a location many times including for ‘The Psychopath’ and ‘The Magnificent 6 and ½ - It’s Not Cricket’.
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Cornering at speed causes the can of film to fall from its shelf and the van door to come open.
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As Bert flies over a bridge, the can bounces from the van and along the road before careering across a field.
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Following a frantic search for the film’s extras to re-shoot the last scene, a Young Woman carries out a newspaper board announcing the kidnapping of pop star Ronnie Baker.
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After making a call to his fiancée Toni Howard, Ronnie Baker (Dennis Lotis) listens to a Woman (Nan Munro) give her opinion of the news about him in the papers.
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Toni arrives and parks up to collect her intended.
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Ronnie gets into the car before the two return to the studio.
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A Rolls Royce brings a Beauty Contest Winner to the studio accompanied by producer Mr. Chadsby. The south side of Stage A.
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The camera pans to follow the car. Facing north on what is now named Peter Sellers Way with Stages C and A to the right and Stage L in the left background.
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Outside the studio offices, the film's short tempered Director Kurt Vorn (Laurence Naismith) is greeted by a smiling Barney.
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Joe arrives with Mr. and Mrs. Bliss (Philip Ray and Olga Lindo) and Sir George Howard (Colin Gordon) as the other extras assemble. Shepperton Studios on Studios Road in Littleton, part of Surrey since 1965.