For Them That Trespass

Date: 1949
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
Production Company: Associated British Picture Corporation

Stars: Richard Todd, Patricia Plunkett, Stephen Murray, Michael Laurence
Location(s): London

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Storyline:

An aspiring young writer tries to broaden his experience but gets involved with a woman who is murdered.

Additional Information:

Screen captures uploaded by Phil Wilkinson from source material provided by John Tunstill.

 

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  • 19 Jun 2013

Christopher Drew (Stephen Murray) leaves a newsagent with a copy of The Morning Post. The street sign above the newspaper rack reads Golden Yard . . . . .

. . . . . which is off Holly Bush Steps in Hampstead, London NW3. (PW)

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  • 19 Jun 2013

Christopher runs towards home in make believe Sareham Hill. Holly Bush Steps, London NW3 looking up to Holly Mount. We were also in this area for 'The Killing of Sister George', 'The Collector' and 'The Smallest Show on Earth'.

The same, virtually unchanged location now. (PW)

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  • 19 Jun 2013

The young writer rushes to show his parents that his poem has been printed in the paper. Holly Mount in NW3 facing the Holly Bush public house which also appears in 'Hampstead', 'The Killing of Sister George', 'Strangler's Web' and 'Finding Your Feet'.

And now in colour. (PW)

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  • 01 Oct 2018

Nearly home. This has to be somewhere in Hampstead . . . . doesn't it?

It's Mount Vernon confirms Tris, who also provides this comparison of the location.

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  • 31 Mar 2018

Christopher is having trouble with his writing and talks with his friend Robert (Unknown Actor).

A doorway with a triangular header and a leaded window above.

Christopher Matheson has not only solved the location but provided a now to support. He was constrained with regard to aspect ratio telling us that it is Hampstead Parish Church at the end of Church Row. Also seen in 'Sweet William' (RL)

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To gain life experience and improve his writing, Christopher visits the fleshpots of fictional Lenton Town.

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The aspiring author visits The Wild Swan public house.

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After an eventful night, Christopher escorts Frankie Ketchen (Rosalyn Boulter) home.

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The pair approach Frankie's home on the film's Crayber Square in Lenton. Likely to be a real railway bridge though, as a train appears to pass over in other scenes.

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Crayber Square, where Frankie is eventually murdered. This is possibly a studio set.

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Christopher pays Frankie another visit as one of her suitors, railway fireman Jim Heal, makes his way back to see her. A longer shot of the bridge seen in image fttt009.

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Railway fireman Herbert Logan heads to London to hide when the police suspect him of Frankie's murder.

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A newspaper vendor shouts out the headlines as Herbert Edward Logan (Richard Todd) hides.

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Dave (Harry Fowler) approaches his friend, shop girl Rosie (Patricia Plunkett) and asks about her new boyfriend.

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  • 13 Mar 2014

Rosie waits for Herbert, the new man in her life. St Mary's Church graveyard off Battersea Church Road in the Borough of Wandsworth SW11.

I think the leaning tree to the left is the same one that is in the screen capture. (PW)

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  • 13 Mar 2014

Herbert runs towards his new sweetheart. Off Battersea Church Road with Chelsea Railway Bridge in the background. 'Alfie' and 'Melody' were shot here too.

Nearly the same angle now. (PW)

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  • 13 Mar 2014

The couple talk as the Thames flows behind them. The church yard at St Mary's with Lots Road power station across the river. London SW11.

A remarkably similar shot. (PW)

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  • 13 Mar 2014

Detective Inspector Benstead (Michael Brennan) approaches. St. Mary's Church on Battersea Church Road.

The same location now. (PW)

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  • 13 Mar 2014

Logan is arrested and charged with the murder of Frankie Ketchen.

Facing Battersea Church Road from St Mary's churchyard. (PW)

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  • 13 Mar 2014

The church bells chime as Herbert is taken away. St. Mary's church can also be seen in 'Food for a Blush', 'Clegg' and 'The Sleeping Tiger'.

St Mary's Church in SW11 now. (PW)

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After Logan is sentenced to hang, Christopher Drew walks aimlessly past The Wild Swan as he ponders telling the police what he knows.

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The wrongly accused man's sentence is commuted to life imprisonment after Christopher writes to Sir Huntley, Logan's Defence counsel. Possibly a studio set.

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Over the 15 years that Logan spends in prison, Christopher gains success as a playwright and moves into a large house with his wife Mary (Helen Cherry).

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After his release, Logan is reunited with Rosie in London before he heads for Frankie's old flat on Crayber Square in Lenton.

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Logan talks with a Mad Artist (George Hayes) who now occupies the flat.

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Herbert visits Christopher's house, High Grove, to face the man he believes killed Frankie.