Hideout, The

Date: 1956
Director: Peter Graham Scott
Production Company: Major Productions

Stars: Dermot Walsh, Rona Anderson, Ronald Howard, Sam Kydd
Location(s): London

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Storyline:

An insurance investigator Steve Curry (Dermot Walsh) comes into possession of a suitcase with £8,000 in it after a mix-up at the Rex Hotel in London. The gang of crooks who’s money it is snatch it from Curry at the airport but he has already passed it on to a friend Tim Bowers (Sam Kydd) with a view to getting it back to the rightful owners. Curry and Bowers then set out to find the owner of the suitcase. Their search leads them to Helen Grant (Rona Anderson) who discloses that the money was being used by her furrier brother Robert Grant (Ronald Howard), to purchase some smuggled pelts that are later discovered to be carrying anthrax.

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  • 15 Apr 2015

Piccadilly Circus at night sets the scene and Helen Grant’s (Rona Anderson) taxi takes her through London.

Doesn't quite have the magic during daylight.

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  • 15 Apr 2015

Past Lyons Corner House, 7-14 Coventry Street, Corner of Coventry St and Rupert Street.

Very happy memories for all those who are old enough to remember.

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Before arriving at the "Rex Hotel" where the suitcase switch takes place. Could well be a set.

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  • 15 Apr 2015

After a night of Curry being abducted and then escaping as well a prisoner involved with the money escaping prison, another day emerges. Curry goes to “Drew Court”, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 with a view to seeing Grant who’s name was inside the suitcase.

All the stonework suitably cleaned.

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  • 15 Apr 2015

And enters Albert Court, the real “Drew Court”.

Albert Court as it is now.

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Having returned the suitcase to Robert Grant he heads off home. Unknown location.

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Where it is being watched and a warning is sounded on a car hooter. Unknown location with continuity from 005 could well be near earlier grabs.

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  • 15 Apr 2015

Location shot of Scotland Yard prior to studio set of the police investigating the jail break of Jack Zacki.

We could do with that tree now to soften the security starkness.

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  • 15 Apr 2015

After learning that the furs are infected with Anthrax, Steve, Helen and her brother Robert go to the Imperial Institute to gain information on Anthrax.

Thank goodness the Queen's Tower and two lions remain.

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  • 15 Apr 2015

The three together with Tim Bowers (Sam Kydd) go to Roberts warehouse to collect the furs with a view to burning them. Upper Thames Street, turning into Fye Foot Lane, London EC4.

Upper Thames Street now considerably wider and Fye Foot Lane now a bridge and high walk but still ending opening into Queen Victoria Street.

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Sam Kydd goes off to try and retrieve the skins by enquiring in “his playground”. The Elephant & Castle Hotel stands prominent at the apex formed by Walworth Road to the left and Newington Butts to the right. The dome to the right of centre is the roof of the Northern Line Underground station. Different incarnations of the area also feature in 'The Strange Affair', 'Play Up the Band', 'Wonderland' and 'Nil by Mouth'.

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  • 07 Sep 2017

Tim gets the information that he wants and goes off to Wapping to meet Jack Zacki. Cannot identify the spot despite once living there.

But Ray and Ron Glenister, independently, far away in OZ found it. Hermitage Wall, London E1 . Replacing the Google Earth view and in this, St John's Church is still (just) visible.

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  • 15 Apr 2015

As Robert heads off to Wapping to buy back the skins Steve decides to follow. Albert Court, Mansions, Kensington Gore clearly showing the then permanent portico to the entrance.

Portico definitely gone.

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  • 15 Apr 2015

Tim agrees to take the Anthrax infected skins to the docks so that they can be dumped overboard by the ships captain that smuggled them in and is pursued by Helen.

Wapping High Street at the junction with Orton Street, London E1

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The police having been tipped off as to the whereabouts of Zacki, they also start to converge on Wapping see Tim coming towards them.

Wapping High Street, London E1 looking towards Thomas More Street with less excitement.

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  • 15 Apr 2015

A transition shot to Tim as he swerves, with the Hermitage Docks 1914 PLA Building behind him, before he crashes, the lorry bursting into flames and the skins suitably destroyed.

The PLA building has been retained...thankfully!

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  • 15 Apr 2015

Helen and Steve walk off into the sunset.

They must have "walked off" somewhere near what is now Hermitage Gardens and the general filming area.