Harassed Hero, The
Date: 1954
Director: Maurice Elvey
Production Company: Corsair Pictures
Stars: Guy Middleton, Joan Winmill Brown, Elwyn Brook-Jones, Mary Mackenzie, Harold Goodwin
Location(s): London, Middlesex, Surrey
Region(s): London H-L, South East E-L
Storyline:
A wealthy hypochondriac gets entangled in counterfeiters’ plans.
Additional Information:
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- Capture 1
- 09 Apr 2014
A taxi drives to pick up Murray Selwyn. Kensington High Street, London W8.
Trees to the left in this comparison shot from Peter.
- Capture 2
- 09 Apr 2014
As a Greenline bus pulls away, the taxi draws up outside a chemist where the hypochondriac has been stocking up. Opposite Argyll Road on Kensington High Street.
Peter found the same spot.
- Capture 3
- 07 May 2014
Murray arrives at his Kensington home where his servant inadvertantly brings a briefcase full of forged £5 notes in from the cab. Edwardes Square in W8.
A lot more cars in this picture from Peter.
- Capture 4
- 25 Jan 2021
After the £5 notes are recovered by Ken, the gang member arrives at a boatyard. Steve Platt identifies this as the access road to Sandhills Meadow, opposite Halliford School on Russell Road in Shepperton, Middlesex.
Avoiding the hedge for a clearer view, Nick Boorman found a few changes to the bridge's handrails and the change to central heating is reflected by the absence of chimneys on the houses.
- Capture 5
- 05 Mar 2021
Ken is taken to gang boss Logan's boat. Steve Platt advises that this is the River Thames just upstream from Shepperton Manor . . .
. . . and provides this view, taken from a kayak, in support.
- Capture 6
- 'Now' required
Leaving Ken with the car, Logan (Elwyn Brook-Jones) enters the nursing home where Murray is having rest and recuperation at Nurse Brooks' insistance.
- Capture 7
- 'Now' required
Whilst he waits for his boss, Ken follows the sound of a young woman singing as Dr Grice takes Logan's car by mistake.
- Capture 8
- 'Now' required
The two criminals take Dr. Grice's car and drive until coming across their own in a nearby road.
- Capture 9
- 27 Aug 2021
Murray and the police head for Carstairs Court where Nurse Brooks is staying whilst in town. Jules Ballantyne tells us that the actual name and location is Barons Keep, Gliddon Road, London W14 (RL)
As Barons Keep is gated I had to take a shot of the architecturally-matching south side rather than the north, which I suspect the capture represents. SJ
- Capture 10
- 27 Aug 2021
When they arrive at the apartment block, the concierge advises that there's nobody there by the name of Brooks. As Capture 9 Barons Keep, Gliddon Road, London W14 (RL)
The north-east corner of Barons Keep taken from the gates with a zoom, hence slightly off-angle. SJ